Sunil Fernandes
Senior Lead Firmware Engineer at Texas Instruments
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSunil Fernandes is a Senior Lead Firmware Engineer with over 20 years of embedded systems and semiconductor experience, currently driving post-silicon firmware and validation initiatives at Texas Instruments after leading a 10-engineer post-silicon system validation team at Intel. He has deep expertise across system peripherals (THC, SPI/eSPI, GbE, SATA, UFS, LPSS, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, CAN, ISH) and a track record of delivering on-time quality for Intel platforms including Alder Lake, Raptor Lake and Lunar Lake. Previously he led teams at Microchip building USB host/device stacks, SDKs and regression automation while supporting global customers and managing outsourced projects. Sunil combines hands-on driver and signal-processing development with people leadership—owning performance, promotions and technical growth strategies—and has a knack for practical test automation innovations such as touch panel emulation. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs advanced degrees in electrical engineering with cross-domain experience from telecom to semiconductor post-silicon validation, making him effective at bridging hardware, firmware and customer-facing support.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Non Degree, Electrical Engineering, Non Degree, Electrical Engineering at Arizona State UniversityMasters of Science, Electrical Engineering, 3.16, Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering, 3.16 at Illinois Institute of TechnologyDiploma in Engineering, Electronics, Diploma in Engineering, Electronics at Larsen & Toubro Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecom, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecom at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (2)
harmony10
usb9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sunil-fernandes/first_repo
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
sunil-fernandes/bread_demo
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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