Nikunj Dadhania
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNikunj Dadhania is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 15 years of systems and platform engineering experience, currently at AMD after senior roles at Intel and IBM's Linux Technology Center. He specializes in low-level software—C, Linux kernel, device drivers, virtualization, firmware (maintainer of the open-source SLOF implementation of IEEE1275), and power management on ARM SoCs. His contributions span QEMU-SLOF for IBM PowerKVM and libvirt resource controller features, reflecting deep expertise in kernel scheduling, cgroups, and system optimization. Known for bridging firmware and hypervisor layers, he brings a rare combo of embedded DSP/PM driver experience and virtualization architecture knowledge. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs long-term open-source stewardship with pragmatic product delivery across enterprise and mobile platforms.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Shree U V Patel College of EngineeringHSC, HSC at St. Xavier's High School, Ahmedabad
Github Skills (29)
firmware9
merge6
moto6
architecture5
gitlab4
esxi4
python3
dynamic-analysis3
vms3
libvirt3
qemu3
linux2
fedora2
hyper-v2
xen2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
open-power-host-os/slof
Jun 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 13 branches, 10 tags in 2 years 1 month
openpowerhost
nikunjad/qemu
Jul 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 15 branches in 8 years 8 months
linuxqemusubmitpull-requestswiki
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