Balsundar P
Firmware Developer at Intel Corporation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBalsundar P is a firmware and Linux device driver developer with 9 years of experience specializing in high-throughput storage controllers, low-level SCSI drivers, and kernel internals. He has a strong track record of upstream contributions and reviews to the Linux kernel and notable Zephyr RTOS driver work integrating timers and watchdogs for Intel platforms. Deep expertise in cache coherency, MMU/SMMU, MSIX interrupts and practical experience with I2C, SPI, UART and USB complement his systems-level C programming skills. At Intel and previously Microsemi, he built driver packaging and update workflows and used IO tools like Medusa and FIO to validate performance. He also runs workshops for students and has a master’s in Embedded Systems, blending research-minded problem solving with production-grade firmware delivery.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, First Class, Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, First Class at KIT's College of EngineeringMaster's Degree, Embedded Systems, 8.82, Master's Degree, Embedded Systems, 8.82 at VIT UNIVERSITY
English, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi
Github Skills (13)
timers10
embedded-language10
embedded10
timer10
dts10
rtos10
driver10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
iot8
arm8
bluetooth-le3
bluetooth3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 3 PRs, 44 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Balsundar primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by adding and modifying drivers related to timers and watchdogs. Their work included implementing shell commands for timer interaction, adding device tree support for timer and watchdog configurations on Intel platforms, and creating an alarm application. These contributions demonstrate a focus on hardware integration and low-level system programming.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
pbalsundar/zephyr
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:3 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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