Kapil Hali
Principal Engineer at Broadcom
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKapil Hali is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of deep expertise in hardware-software co-design, embedded systems, and microprocessor architecture, currently driving systems-level work at Broadcom out of Irvine, CA. He has led kernel and board bring-up, device driver and bootloader development across x86 and ARM SoCs (including Qualcomm, Nvidia Tegra, and Broadcom platforms) and brings extensive experience with ARM TrustZone and embedded audio DSPs. His background spans real-time RTOS, Linux kernel internals, security (HSM and ECC), and practical ML tool use for signal and system engineering, blending low-level C/assembly with Python and R for analytics. Kapil’s career includes senior roles at Xilinx, Bose, Qualcomm and Nvidia, reflecting a pattern of solving cross-domain integration problems—from wireless PHY and codec interfaces to hardware accelerator IP on embedded FPGAs. Not obvious from titles alone, he pairs hands-on debug proficiency with trace tools and protocol analyzers with production CI/CD and Yocto-based build systems, making him a bridge between chip bring-up and delivered product. He is a pragmatic systems architect who favors measurable delivery and reproducible debugging when moving complex embedded designs into production.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Broadcom/cygnus-linux
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
Alberto97/android_kernel_motorola_sdm632
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 commits in 4 days
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