Akshay Adiga
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Nutanix
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Adiga is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with a decade of deep kernel and embedded systems experience, currently focused on low-level platform and storage engineering. He has driven Linux kernel, filesystem and memory-management optimizations for NVMe SSDs and mobile chipsets, and led chip bring-up and presilicon validation for multiple automotive and mobile platforms. At Qualcomm he delivered kernel features and crash/diagnostic tooling across numerous chipsets and kernel versions; at IBM and Samsung he contributed upstream Linux power management and OPAL firmware work. He pairs hardware-aware software skills (Verilog/IP validation, SystemC/TLM2, static timing) with practical automation using Tcl and Python to speed design and test cycles. Known for shipping kernel drivers and boot firmware across constrained environments, he also mentors small teams to deliver cross-program kernel work. Based in Bengaluru, he maintains active open-source engagement as a Linux kernel, ABL/EDK2 and OPAL contributor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceB.Tech, Electronics Engineering, B.Tech, Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology SuratM.E. Dissertation, Reconfigurable Computing, M.E. Dissertation, Reconfigurable Computing at CSIR-CEERI
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (22)
ppc64le10
opal10
powerpc9
openpower9
keyboard9
linux9
firmware9
mouse9
kernel9
network8
makefile7
magit7
synergy7
emacs6
buildroot5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Over-enthusiastic/Hacks
Sep 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
Over-enthusiastic/hostboot
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 13 branches, 1 tag in 6 months
firmwarepowerpower-systems
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