Rajat J is a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years specializing in low-level platform engineering, kernel bringup, bootloaders and device drivers across Linux, QNX, LynxOS and FreeBSD. A longtime Linux kernel committer and active participant on open-source kernel mailing lists, he has upstreamed changes particularly around the PCI subsystem, hot-plug and platform drivers. His hands-on experience spans multiple CPU architectures (PowerPC, ARM, MIPS) and a broad set of peripherals from Ethernet and PCIe to NAND/DDR3 controllers and CPLDs, with much of his work on Freescale PowerPC platforms. At Google he continues to drive kernel, driver and firmware engineering for complex systems, building on prior roles that included migrating large networking products from FreeBSD to Linux at Juniper. He routinely bridges hardware and software—leading board bringup, SW/HW design reviews, vendor evaluations and prototyping—to turn architectural choices into production-ready solutions. Colleagues know him for combining deep kernel internals expertise with pragmatic system design and consistent upstream contributions.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Delhi
M.Tech., Computer Science, M.Tech., Computer Science at Devi Ahilya University
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