Giri Mandyam is a veteran SoC security architect with three decades of experience designing secure chipsets for IoT, earbuds, WiFi/Bluetooth, routers, VR/XR and integrated UWB products, now leading SoC security at AMD. He has driven industry-firsts—such as Qualcomm’s first RISC-V root-of-trust and the company’s first integrated UWB SoC and WiFi 6E product—while shaping standardization work at W3C and FIDO and contributing technical edits to the widely used WebAuthn spec. A hands-on leader with a PhD in electrical engineering, an H-index of 33 and 65+ US patents, he blends deep research credentials with pragmatic product delivery and cross-functional orchestration. Known for translating complex security requirements into deployable system architectures, he also thrives on continuous learning and mentoring engineers by example.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at The University of New Mexico
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University
Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:38 commits, 27 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Giri primarily focused on updating the `index.bs` file, which appears to be the main documentation file for the `webauthn` repository. Their commits involve adding and modifying text related to various aspects of the WebAuthn specification, including extensions like location and biometric criteria. The changes include adding CDDL (CBOR Data Definition Language) examples and clarifying descriptive text for different features and considerations within the WebAuthn standard.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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Giri Mandyam - System On-Chip Security Architect at AMD