Santosh Sivaraj
Solutions Engineer at NVIDIA
Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSantosh Sivaraj is a seasoned solutions engineer with 13 years of systems and kernel-focused experience, currently driving platform and customer solutions at NVIDIA from Tamil Nadu. He brings deep low-level expertise across C, Python, Go and Rust, with a proven track record in kernel development, board bring-up, device drivers and performance-focused userland-to-kernel transitions from roles at IBM, Brocade, Mistral and HCL. His open-source contributions to pmem/ndctl show practical experience with platform memory, NUMA handling and tools that enable next-generation memory technologies like CXL and NVDIMMs. Calm under pressure and pragmatically humorous about shipping “high class bugs,” he pairs meticulous debugging with scripting that saves keystrokes and accelerates delivery. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and module lead, he combines hardware-near code instincts with an eye for streamlining tests and removing redundant checks.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Computer Science and Engineering, B.E, Computer Science and Engineering at M. Kumarasamy College of EngineeringBreeks, Ooty
English, Tamil, Kannada, badaga
Github Skills (6)
c1710
nvm10
c1110
linux-kernel10
debug9
debugging9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pmem/ndctl
Dec 2019 - May 2021
A "device memory" enabling project encompassing tools and libraries for CXL, NVDIMMs, DAX, memory tiering and other platform memory device topics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Santosh primarily focused on improving the `ndctl` tool and related libraries. Their contributions included fixing errors related to namespace enabling and destroying, along with code modifications in `libndctl.c`, `dimm.c`, `util/filter.c`, and `test/`. They also implemented adjustments for handling NUMA node information and ensuring correct alignment when writing infoblocks. Furthermore, the user removed redundant checks and streamlined tests.
memorydaxlinux-kerneltieringcxl
santoshs/linux
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 4 months
linuxpowerpc
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