Sainath Grandhi
Staff Software Engineer Virtualization Tech Lead
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSainath Grandhi is a Staff Software Engineer and Virtualization Tech Lead with 11 years of systems software experience building hypervisors, OS features, and device drivers across Windows and Linux. Based in Beaverton, he leads ACRN and QEMU work at Intel, combining deep x86, VT-x/VT-d, PCIe and ACPI knowledge with hands-on debugging of BIOS/OS/hardware interactions. His background spans kernel prototypes for power/performance, container networking, and CUDA-based parallel algorithms from graduate research, reflecting a rare mix of low-level firmware bring-up and parallel programming. Comfortable mentoring cross-org teams, he pairs pragmatic product delivery with curiosity about microprocessor and multiprocessor architecture and has a track record of turning platform-level insights into shipping virtualization features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech Electrical and Electronics, B. Tech Electrical and Electronics at Pondicherry UniversityM.S. Computer Engineering, M.S. Computer Engineering at North Carolina State Universitynarayana junior college
Github Skills (58)
container10
docker10
ecosystem10
moby10
hypervisor10
go10
assemble10
golang10
virtual-machine8
sandbox8
kernel7
routeros7
rust6
serverless6
clustering6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sainath14/acrn-hypervisor
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Project ACRN hypervisor
Contributions:158 pushes, 148 branches in 2 years 8 months
hypervisoracrn
sainath14/kernelhardening
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 months
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