Summary
Raghav Nayak is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of deep firmware and low-level systems experience, now working on Azure cloud firmware for Maia, Microsoft’s AI accelerator. He brings a strong C/C++, Assembly and Python toolkit honed across semiconductor and GPU stacks at Arm, Imagination Technologies, Toshiba and STMicroelectronics, with hands-on ownership of Linux drivers, HALs and NVMe SSD controller firmware. Raghav’s background in pre/post-silicon validation and system performance analysis gives him a rare blend of silicon-level debugging and production firmware delivery. Based in Bengaluru, he’s comfortable moving between performance tuning for GPUs and building robust firmware for cloud accelerators, often surfacing subtle hardware-software interactions that improve reliability and power efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PUC Science, PUC Science at YTSS
BE Electronics and Communication, BE Electronics and Communication at SDM College of Engg & Tech , Dharwad
MS Embedded Systems, MS Embedded Systems at Manipal University