Shashank Sharma
Principal Graphics Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolShashank Sharma is a Principal Graphics Software Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience building Linux graphics and display stacks for industry leaders like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Samsung. He specializes in end-to-end Linux graphics development—spanning Kernel DRM drivers, GPU driver internals, compositors, and middleware—to deliver features such as HDR, FreeSync, and advanced workload scheduling. A proven open-source maintainer and technical lead, he’s driven upstream work on AMDGPU, Xorg DDX, and compositor integrations while fostering community collaboration. His career blends low-level kernel bring-up and platform porting with system-level architecture for infotainment and high-resolution display solutions. Known as an “opensourcer” who’s comfortable across the stack, he brings both pragmatic engineering and cross-team leadership to complex graphics problems. Outside core duties he enjoys tackling niche integration challenges that reveal subtle system interactions often missed in higher-level design.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE Electronics and Telecom, BE Electronics and Telecom at Bhilai Institute of Technology (BIT), DurgHSSCSSSC PCM, HSSCSSSC PCM at S S Kalibadi School,Raipur
Github Skills (7)
c1710
edid10
c1110
linux-kernel10
hdmi10
dd8
i2c8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
contactshashanksharma/drm-display-tools
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
A few basic and tiny tools which:- create a framebuffer, fill a pattern on this buffer, and displays this buffer on the display using DRM and Framebuffer (fbdev) ecosystems
Contributions:36 commits, 17 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
fillbufferframebufferdisplaysdrm
contactshashanksharma/libedid
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
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