Ayan Halder
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAyan 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.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
drm10
linux-kernel9
kernel-module9
userspace9
tegra9
driver9
machine-learning8
linux8
kernel8
firmware8
zen8
neural-network7
nvidia6
omap5
beagleboard3
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
driverfirmwarekernel-moduleuserspace
ARM-software/linux
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:57 commits in 2 years 1 month
linux-kernelgraphicsdrmkms
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