Savinay Dharmappa
Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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RockstarSavinay Dharmappa is a Staff Engineer based in Bengaluru with a decade of hands-on embedded and kernel engineering across leaders like Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel. He specializes in Linux kernel scheduler and SoC performance optimization—tuning CFS, uclamp, L3 cache scaling and implementing preferred idle patches to boost CPU efficiency on mobile platforms. His background spans bootloader and low-level firmware development, memory optimization, and remoteproc signalling for heterogeneous compute, reflecting deep experience bringing up platforms across Qualcomm and Spreadtrum chipsets. Known for using Perfetto and trace tools for root-cause performance work and stabilizing kernels in production, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic fixes. An electronics engineering graduate, he pairs firmware-rooted insight with measurable impact on power and performance in complex SoC environments.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
infiniband10
freertos10
mcu10
zephyr-rtos10
git-repository10
bluetooth-le10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
iot10
rtos10
bluetooth10
embedded10
architectures10
scalable10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SavinayDharmappa/zephyr
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Primary GIT Repository for the Zephyr Project
Contributions:216 pushes, 74 branches in 1 year 9 months
crosswordgit-repositoryversion-controlsolidworkszones
Petrovicks/zephyr
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Primary GIT Repository for the Zephyr Project
Contributions:4 commits in 5 months
git-repositoryversion-controlzephyr
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