Kumarasamy Palanisamy
Principal Engineer at SanDisk®
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKumarasamy Palanisamy is a Principal Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of embedded software experience, specializing in Embedded Linux and firmware for storage and industrial IoT products. He has led firmware design for removable and internal SSDs at SanDisk after progressing through senior firmware and IoT roles at Schneider Electric and Bosch, bringing deep expertise in Embedded C/C++, systemd, QNX, and device-level protocols like Modbus. Kumarasamy combines hands-on low-level development with system integration skills—spanning boot-to-application firmware, validation, and mobile app interoperability for inverter systems—demonstrating an unusual blend of storage firmware and industrial IoT domain knowledge. Known among peers for pragmatic problem-solving, he moves fluidly between performance-sensitive SSD firmware and higher-level IoT application stacks, and he contributes as an Embedded Linux programmer on GitHub. With a BE in Computer Science, he’s comfortable shipping production firmware at scale while mentoring teams through complex hardware-software trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HSC General, HSC General at Government Higher Secondary School OlgadamBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology
English, Tamil
Github Skills (12)
automotive9
vsomeip8
owner8
middleware7
service-discovery6
scalable6
boost4
monorepo3
kotlin3
golang3
android3
cpp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kumarasamy/Cpractice
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
kumarasamy/Kumar
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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