Summary
Madhan Pethaiyan is an Engineering Technical Leader with over a decade of deep BIOS and firmware expertise, currently leading engineering efforts at Cisco after a long tenure at Intel where he progressed from firmware engineer to BIOS project lead. He specializes in PC architecture, UEFI/EFI drivers, ACPI, x86 assembly and platform power management, and has driven firmware delivery and early silicon engagement to translate silicon validation into robust BIOS requirements. Comfortable from low-level assembly to program-level project planning, he has led cross-functional teams and OEM/ODM collaborations to ship tablet and platform firmware across multiple Intel generations. An MBA-trained engineer based in Bengaluru, he combines technical rigor with management acumen to align firmware roadmaps to business and silicon timelines—often surfacing subtle silicon constraints into practical BIOS design decisions.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai
BE, Electronic and Communication Engineering, BE, Electronic and Communication Engineering at GKM College of Engineering and Technology