Rohit Kumar
Software Engineer at Qualcomm
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRohit Kumar is an embedded Linux software engineer with 9 years of experience, currently working at Qualcomm after four years building Linux BSPs and device firmware at eInfochips. He specializes in Linux Board Support Packages and low-level audio stack work, with strong C, C++, Python and Bash skills applied to real-time and resource-constrained systems. Rohit has contributed to the tinyalsa project—improving mixer/PCM stability, adding plugin support and mmap/poll ops—demonstrating practical open-source impact on the Linux ALSA ecosystem. Based in Hyderabad, he combines hands‑on kernel-adjacent development with system integration experience across SoC platforms. Colleagues rely on him for diagnosing tricky memory and event-handling issues and for shipping robust BSPs that bridge kernel and user space.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronics and Communication Engineering at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Github Skills (7)
c1710
plugin-development10
audio-processing10
c1110
sys9
mmap9
embedded9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tinyalsa/tinyalsa
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Tiny library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rohit primarily contributed to the tinyalsa library, focusing on the mixer and PCM (Pulse-Code Modulation) functionalities. They implemented plugin support for mixer events, including reading and consuming events. The user also addressed memory leaks, fixed issues related to event handling and added PCM state macros, and updated PCM state in sync_ptr operations, improving the overall stability and functionality of the library. They also added support for mmap/poll ops. Further contributions involve adding sample plugin and a sndcardparser.
alsalinux-kernelctinyalsa
SGCMarkus/android_vendor_qcom_opensource_pal
Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:66 commits in 1 year 10 months
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