Siva Kallam
Principle Engineer at Broadcom Inc.
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Top SchoolSiva Kallam is a principal engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining high-performance network and platform drivers, currently leading ESXi driver development for Broadcom network controllers. He progressed from driver maintainer roles—owning Broadcom’s flagship tg3 Linux driver—to architecting ESXi L2 driver features for NXE/NX1 controllers, demonstrating deep expertise in PCIe, UEFI, and Ethernet controller stacks. His background includes low-level systems work at Samsung and HGST, where he delivered PCIe root complex, U-Boot, and UEFI drivers as well as FPGA verification for video processing. Siva combines individual contributor rigor with team leadership and delegation, reliably shipping production drivers for enterprise environments. An electrical-to-software systems thinker, he often operates at the hardware–software boundary to turn silicon capabilities into robust, deployable firmware and drivers.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
10th, Maths, Science, Social, 10th, Maths, Science, Social at ZPHS, kunkalaguntaBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Distinction, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Distinction at JNTU, Hyderabad
English, Telugu
Github Skills (47)
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mido6
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
followmsi/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870
Feb 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 commits in 2 years 10 months
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
Feb 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:23 commits in 2 years 10 months
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