Sumit Semwal
Senior Technical Lead at Linaro
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Semwal is a Senior Technical Lead with over two decades of embedded Linux expertise, currently leading kernel and Android platform efforts at Linaro from Bengaluru. He is the author and mainline maintainer of dma-buf, a widely used framework for sharing buffers across Linux subsystems, and a driving force behind Linaro’s Unified Memory Management work that bridges Android and mainline kernels. Sumit has deep domain knowledge of display and video subsystems (DRM, V4L2) and long experience with OMAP processors, helping manufacturers upstream Android kernel features and improve platform stability. A regular presence at conferences like ELC and Linux Plumbers, he combines hands-on kernel engineering with cross-company collaboration and practical upstreaming success that has influenced real products such as ARM Chromebooks.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B Sc., Computer Science, Second Position in Class, B Sc., Computer Science, Second Position in Class at Keshava Mahavidyalaya, Delhi University12th, 12, 12th, 12 at Delhi Public School Mathura RoadMCA - SE, Software Engineering, University Silver Medalist, MCA - SE, Software Engineering, University Silver Medalist at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Github Skills (9)
pci10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
srv9
xen9
hyper-v9
device-driver8
sys7
embedded7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sumitsemwal/devboardsforandroid
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
sumitsemwal/android-qa-classifier-data
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
meta data associated with android kernel / dev board testing
Contributions:5 pushes in 7 months
kerneldev-boarddevtestingmeta
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