Kiran Padwal
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolKiran Padwal is a Senior System Software Engineer with 11 years' experience, currently at NVIDIA, specializing in Linux kernel GPU device drivers and advancing GPU security through Confidential Computing. He designs and maintains GPU subsystems, implements security features for trusted execution environments, and works with Intel TDX, AMD SEV and GPU virtualization to enable secure, high-performance workloads. His background spans embedded and system software roles at Qualcomm, Microsemi, and KPIT, giving him deep practical expertise across hardware-adjacent stack layers. An active collaborator in open-source kernel communities, he focuses on making GPUs usable in untrusted environments without sacrificing throughput. Based in Pune, India, he blends low-level engineering rigor with a clear focus on real-world security and performance tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (31)
moto7
caf6
lustre5
ptrace4
kernel4
perf4
performance-tuning3
nfs3
seccomp3
linux-kernel3
vmware2
vdi2
linux2
hyper-v2
vsphere2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KiranPadwal/integration-linux-qcomlt
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
kraatus90/payton
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:30 commits in 7 months
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