Samiullah Khawaja
Software Engineer at Google
United States
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Top SchoolSamiullah Khawaja is a software engineer with eight years of experience building low-level and graphics systems, currently contributing at Google. He brings deep C/C++ expertise across Android and Linux stacks, specializing in kernel and bootloader work, real-time OS, hypervisors, device virtualization and driver development. His background includes designing GPU sharing frameworks and graphics engines—working with OpenGL ES, EGL, SurfaceFlinger, drm/gbm/kms and compositors like Wayland/Weston—showing fluency across both Android and embedded Linux graphics. At Mentor Graphics he led efforts in domain separation and fast-boot optimizations for TI and NXP platforms, blending security-conscious architecture with performance tuning. Comfortable across the full stack from boot to UI, he pairs systems-level rigor with practical product delivery for constrained and safety-critical environments. Based in the United States with a BSCS focused on operating systems and low-level programming, he combines academic foundations with hands-on embedded systems engineering.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS, Systems, Operating Systems,Low level programming., BSCS, Systems, Operating Systems,Low level programming. at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
smartphone10
ffmpeg9
fastboot9
aws-sdk9
obs9
aws9
magisk9
sdk9
audio9
lineageos9
broadcast9
tablet9
xiaomi9
cpp9
docker8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samikhawaja/codility
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
samikhawaja/xgl
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Vulkan API Layer
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
vulkanopenglapivulkan-api
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