Balaji Manigandan
Director at Intel Corporation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBalaji Manigandan is a Director of Firmware Engineering at Intel India with over two decades of semiconductor and embedded-systems experience, currently leading open-source BIOS and EC efforts for Chromebooks from Bengaluru. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to coreboot.org and driving CI/BI/AI-enabled workflows—with strategic leadership in vendor evaluation, outsourcing, and cross-functional program delivery. Balaji has a proven track record of scaling teams and sites, transforming groups into recognized open-source reviewers and gatekeepers while protecting proprietary IP. His background spans mobile multimedia, radio protocol stacks, and system software, and includes patents and awards that reflect sustained innovation. He is known for converting research and automation into measurable engineering productivity gains using Jenkins, Power BI/eazyBI, and AI use cases. Pragmatic and collaboration-oriented, he focuses on talent development and aligning technical roadmaps with business objectives.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceB.E., Telecommunication, B.E., Telecommunication at B. M. S. College of Engineering
Github Skills (3)
firmware10
bootloader10
bios10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
coreboot/coreboot
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Contributions:7 commits in 4 years 1 month
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
coreboot/chrome-ec
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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