Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi
Senior Silicon Validation Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPridhiviraj Paidipeddi is a Senior Silicon Validation Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience across Qualcomm, IBM, Intel and currently Google, specializing in firmware, driver development and end-to-end validation for mobile and server processors. He has led power-management, temperature sensor and active-mode firmware efforts on multiple Snapdragon platforms and owned OPAL firmware functional verification and automation for IBM POWER systems. Comfortable across POWER and x86 architectures, he blends post-silicon bring-up and triage skills with strong C/C++/Python expertise to drive reliable system behavior and RAS/energy-management features. Notably, he maintains and contributes to the OpenPOWER test framework and skiboot projects, reflecting a strong open-source footprint in platform firmware. His background combines rigorous academic training from NIT Warangal with practical experience debugging complex hardware-software interactions at scale. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he thrives at the intersection of firmware development, validation automation and system-level debugging.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MPC MathsPhysicsChemistry, MPC MathsPhysicsChemistry at Narayana Junior CollegeMaster's Degree Electronic & Instrumentation Engineering, Master's Degree Electronic & Instrumentation Engineering at NIT WarangalBachelor's Degree Electronic and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electronic and Communications Engineering at JNTU Kakinada, Vizianagaram campus
English, Telugu
Github Skills (24)
buildroot10
testing10
firmware10
overlay10
makefile10
openpower10
opal10
boot10
bitbake9
ppc64le9
powerpc9
linux9
kernel9
u-boot9
openbmc5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pridhiviraj/op-test-framework
Dec 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:313 pushes, 215 branches in 2 years 9 months
pridhiviraj/avocado-misc-tests
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
testing
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