Ayan Halder
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Xilinx
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAyan Halder is a senior embedded systems and security engineer with 8+ years designing Arm v7/v8 solutions across the hardware/software boundary, currently shaping functional safety and security at AMD. He combines deep Arm architecture expertise with hands-on kernel, bootloader and hypervisor work—upstreaming Linux drivers, developing Xen-related solutions, and building firmware for NPUs and display processors. His experience spans RTOS/FreeBSD bringup, power management, NAND/MTD, and ML inference stacks (TensorFlow/TFLite and Ethos NPU drivers), giving him a rare full-stack SoC perspective. Ayan has led multi-site teams and served on The Xen Project advisory board, proving both technical leadership and open-source stewardship. He is comfortable debugging at the circuit and protocol level with tools like DS5/RVDS and protocol analyzers, and has a knack for turning vague requirements into auditable, safety-conscious designs. An early adopter of platform innovation, he even designed the first commercial Palm WebOS app, reflecting a long-standing curiosity beyond low-level firmware.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Fergusson CollegeWadia CollegeDiploma in Financial Management Finance, Diploma in Financial Management Finance at Institute of Management Development and Research (IMDR) ,PuneCICSE Science, CICSE Science at Loyola School, Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi
Github Skills (24)
tegra8
zen8
admin7
machine-learning7
kernel7
armv87
arm6
nvidia6
linux6
linux-kernel6
neural-network5
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
libc5
drm4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-software/ethos-n-driver-stack
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
Driver stack (including user space libraries, kernel module and firmware) for the Arm® Ethos™-N NPU
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 1 push in 10 months
ARM-software/linux
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:57 commits in 2 years 1 month
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