Pinaki Sarker
Senior Engineering Product Manager at NETGEAR
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPinaki Sarker is a Senior Engineering Product Manager with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, developing, and launching Ethernet switch platforms and networking firmware. He currently leads NPI programs at NETGEAR, coordinating ODMs, firmware vendors, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality switches on time and on budget. His background spans ASIC logic design, SDK and switch-stack development, and protocol implementations built from scratch (IGMP Snooping, LLDP, RIPng, redundant ring), complemented by strong tooling skills in C, Python, Yocto and ONIE. A pragmatic technical leader, he has driven portability and hardware integration work—contributing ONIE support for Lenovo platforms on GitHub—demonstrating deep bootloader and device-tree expertise. Pinaki combines a "do-or-die" execution mindset with mentoring and cross-team collaboration, and holds a pending AIoT innovation patent from Taiwan. Based in San Jose, he translates low-level protocol know-how into repeatable product launches across enterprise and datacenter networking.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Computer Science & Technology, B.E., Computer Science & Technology at IIEST, Shibpur
Bengali, English
Github Skills (15)
bootloader10
embedded10
device-tree10
installer10
sys10
system-integration10
networking10
integrations10
installers10
hardware-interface10
architecture9
computer-architecture9
architectures9
linux-kernel9
powerpc9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
opencomputeproject/onie
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Open Network Install Environment
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 12 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pinaki primarily contributes to the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) project by adding support for new Lenovo hardware platforms. Their work involves modifying device tree source files and kernel patches to enable ONIE functionality on specific Lenovo network devices, such as the NE1072T and NE1032T. The contributions demonstrate a focus on hardware integration, bootloader support, and platform-specific configuration for network installation.
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