Gayatri Kammela
System Design Engineer at AMD
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGayatri Kammela is a System Design Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and optimizing Linux systems and firmware, currently working at AMD after a long tenure as a Linux Kernel Engineer at Intel. She has deep hands-on expertise in power management and kernel tooling—evidenced by contributions to the PowerTop project, where she added a WakeUp tab and platform support to improve device wakeup diagnostics. Gayatri combines a strong academic foundation in electrical and computer engineering with practical experience across firmware validation, performance optimization, and system-level software. Her background includes senior software engineering at a perception-driven startup (Hayden AI), giving her exposure to real-world product constraints and edge deployments. Colleagues value her ability to translate cross-layer hardware-software requirements into maintainable kernel and tooling changes. She brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to solving power, wakeup, and platform compatibility challenges across diverse architectures.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and computer engineering, Master's degree Electrical and computer engineering at Portland State UniversityBachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at St.Mary's Women's Engineering College
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (8)
linux10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
power-management10
system-programming9
embedded8
sys8
bash5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fenrus75/powertop
Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
The Linux PowerTOP tool -- please post patches to the mailing list instead of using github pull requests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gayatri primarily contributed to the development of the PowerTop tool, focusing on adding new features related to device power management. This involved creating a new "WakeUp" tab to display and modify device wakeup settings, including Wake-on-LAN and USB device settings. The user also removed Wake-on-LAN settings from the tunables tab, refactored the code and fixed minor issues. In addition, the user has added support for a number of platforms.
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gkammela/powertop
May 2020 - Nov 2020
The Linux PowerTOP tool -- please post patches to the mailing list instead of using github pull requests
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
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