Arun Kannan
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolArun Kannan is an Engineering Manager with 11+ years building embedded system software and leading cross-geographic teams, currently overseeing platform firmware and board management for SOCs and boards at AMD. He blends hands-on expertise across bare-metal, RTOS, Linux, and Xen hypervisor stacks with collaborative leadership that aligns firmware delivery to SOC, board, manufacturing, and customer needs. Prior roles at AWS, NVIDIA, Cisco and Mentor Graphics give him deep experience in device drivers, bootloaders, and board bring-up for diverse products from data-center servers to mobile and embedded devices. Known for pragmatic cross-functional integration, he fosters innovation by leveraging diverse perspectives to deliver robust platform management solutions at scale. Based in San Jose, Arun pairs an ECE background with a track record of turning low-level system complexity into reliable, production-ready platforms.
11 years of coding experience
BE, Electronics & Communication Engineering, BE, Electronics & Communication Engineering at University of MadrasME, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ME, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University
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Github contributions (3)
arunkann/embedded_software
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
arunkann/Hugion
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 days
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