Amresh Kulkarni
Compiler Engineer at Broadcom
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmresh Kulkarni is a compiler engineer with nine years of deep expertise in compiler development, performance modeling, and hardware/software co-design, currently working at Broadcom in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has driven P4 compiler and backend development for Intel/Tofino platforms, owning code generation, resource allocation, power estimation, and control-plane integration while coordinating across drivers, runtime, RTL, and applications teams. His background spans cycle-accurate performance modeling at ARM and tooling for programmable processors at TI, giving him strong systems-level intuition that informs practical compiler and hardware feature tradeoffs. An active contributor to the P4 reference compiler (p4c), he’s fixed low-level bitvector correctness and enhanced P4Runtime generation—work that reflects his attention to both correctness and interoperability.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electical and Computer Engineering, MS Electical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinHSC Science, HSC Science at V. G. Vaze CollegeShreerang VidyalayaB.E. Electronics, B.E. Electronics at University of Mumbai
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
p4v10
p4a10
p4lang10
p4api10
compiler-development10
control-center9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
control-panel9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
p4lang/p4c
May 2017 - Aug 2021
P4_16 reference compiler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 20 commits, 33 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Amresh contributed to the P4_16 reference compiler, focusing on improvements to the `bitvec.h` library. Their work included adding missing size checks, implementing the `putrange` function, and addressing stf test failures. Additionally, the user modified code related to control plane name generation and const entry handling for P4Runtime generation and introduced serializable enum support for p4runtime generation of parser value.
compilerbazel-rulesbazelp4p4c
amreshk/env_setup
Jan 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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