Kelvin Gardiner
Principal Engineer, GPU Software Architecture at Intel Corporation
Greater Sacramento United States
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Top SchoolKelvin Gardiner is a Principal Engineer in GPU Software Architecture with nine years of industry experience and a deep background spanning pre-silicon and post-silicon validation, hardware bring-up, and graphics software for Linux and Android. At Intel he has led test strategy design and cross-functional delivery for next-generation GPU IP, ensuring coverage across complex feature interactions and timelines. His earlier roles include hands-on SoC functional testing, RTL verification, and C-modeling of units for Arm-based chips, grounded in a PhD in microelectronics focused on asynchronous circuit fault tolerance. Kelvin combines system-level thinking with low-level expertise—from Arm assembly and full-chip debug to graphics shader benchmarking—making him effective at bridging architecture, silicon, and software teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, test-driven approaches that de-risk silicon delivery and accelerate time-to-validated-product.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Microelectronics, PhD, Microelectronics at Newcastle UniversityBeng (1:1), Microelectronics, Beng (1:1), Microelectronics at Teesside University
Github Skills (2)
kernel7
drm6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
projectacrn/acrn-kernel
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Kernel tree for ACRN
Contributions:13 commits in 9 months
kernelacrn
moto-sm7250/android_kernel_motorola_sm7250
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year
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