Pratyush Anand
Principal Firmware Manager at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPratyush Anand is a Principal Firmware Manager with 15+ years of experience leading global, multi-site teams to deliver firmware and end-to-end software for ARM server and AI accelerator SoCs. He combines hands-on expertise in ARMv8 system software, Linux kernel and device driver development, and HW/SW partitioning with a proven track record of building teams from scratch and hiring the right talent. At Qualcomm he led delivery for a full SoC (XRC130) coordinating 50+ engineers, and now drives firmware strategy and architecture at Microsoft for server and AI platforms. Known for bridging customer requirements to chip-level software architecture, he also brings deep experience in ARM security and kernel tracing/debugging from his Red Hat and STMicroelectronics background. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems architect who scales complex projects through clear interfaces between silicon, firmware and platform software.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Engineer’s Degree Electronics Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Maithili
Github Skills (29)
initramfs10
beagleboard10
boot9
raspberry8
perf8
linux8
ptrace8
kernel8
linux-kernel8
bsp8
forum7
lustre7
xen7
performance-tuning7
infrastructure6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pratyushanand/linux
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 171 pushes, 81 branches in 2 years 8 months
commitslinux-developmentlinux
pratyushanand/dracut
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 16 branches in 4 months
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