Nikhil Devshatwar
Staff Software Architect at Texas Instruments
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Devshatwar is a Staff Software Architect with 13 years of experience designing software stacks for multicore SoCs, specializing in Linux kernel drivers, virtualization, and video/multimedia frameworks. He has driven software-compatible IP designs at Google and led virtualization and IOMMU enablement at Texas Instruments, contributing upstream patches to the well-known Jailhouse hypervisor for ARM64 and SMMUv3 support. Nikhil combines hands-on kernel-level development with people leadership—mentoring teams, hiring, and ramping engineers to deliver complex SoC software independently. His work spans pre-silicon validation to power, performance, security and debug considerations, and has produced differentiated solutions with patent disclosures. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs embedded systems pragmatism with strategic architecture thinking to bridge hardware and software across automotive, mobile, and edge domains. An active open-source contributor, he’s notable for enabling IOMMU and virtualization primitives that make partitioning hypervisors practical on real hardware.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at COEP Technological University
Github Skills (9)
arm10
hypervisor10
embedded10
linux10
realtime10
sys10
iommu10
c-language9
device-tree8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
siemens/jailhouse
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
Linux-based partitioning hypervisor
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed to the Jailhouse hypervisor, specifically focusing on the ARM64 architecture and IOMMU (Input/Output Memory Management Unit) functionalities. Their work involved introducing and implementing IOMMU hooks for ARM and ARM64, adding support for various IOMMU types like TI's PVU and ARM's SMMUv3. They also made changes to the configuration files, memory regions, and device trees, alongside fixing bugs and optimizing performance related to these IOMMU implementations and their usage within the Jailhouse environment.
linuxpartitioninghypervisorvirtualizationreal-time
nikhildevshatwar/cardgame_tg_bots
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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