Siddharth Chandrasekaran
Kernel Hypervisor Researcher at Huawei
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolSiddharth Chandrasekaran is a Kernel and Hypervisor researcher with 10 years of experience building and hardening virtualization and embedded systems for cloud and IoT workloads. He has driven kernel and userspace hypervisor features at AWS (including VSM/Credential Guard support) and now researches memory overcommit and device emulation for KVM/QEMU at Huawei. Previously he maintained and improved VMware’s Photon OS—contributing security patches and installer improvements—and enhanced Zephyr RTOS and OSDP implementations for secure embedded devices. Siddharth blends low-level Linux kernel work with practical firmware and CI/CD tooling, and his contributions to high-profile open-source projects show a focus on security, stability, and deployability. Based in Dresden, he pairs production-grade engineering with a taste for research-driven problem solving across cloud and constrained-device domains.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (28)
package-management10
patch10
embedded-language10
linux10
c1110
zephyr10
security10
c1710
rtos10
yarnpkg10
embedded10
cve10
networking9
microcontroller9
build-system9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/photon
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Minimal Linux container host
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:75 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Siddharth primarily contributed to the security and stability of the Photon Linux container host. They addressed security vulnerabilities by applying patches to critical dependencies, like `expat` and `yarn`. The user also worked on improving the build process through contributions to the installer, including network configuration, secure random number generation, and fixing installer build failures. Furthermore, they integrated security patches for the kernel and other packages.
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zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
May 2017 - Nov 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:91 reviews, 32 PRs, 268 comments in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Siddharth focused on enhancing the Zephyr RTOS, contributing to the Open Smartcard Protocol (OSDP) implementation. Their work involved adding inline methods for flag checks, refactoring code, and improving readability within the OSDP management module. They also added support for event delivery, enhanced the handling of secure channel keys, and implemented checks on incoming commands for improved security. Further enhancements include refactoring of the mark byte handling and various error code improvements within the OSDP implementation.
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