Venkataramana Kotakonda
Firmware Architect at Intel Corporation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVenkataramana Kotakonda is a firmware architect with 12 years of embedded systems experience, currently designing Zephyr RTOS-based SMC firmware and USB Type-C PD solutions at Intel in Bengaluru. He combines deep C/RTOS expertise with hardware-software co-design, having defined industry-standard interfaces and worked across protocols like USB-PD, I2C, SMBus, PECI and eSPI. His career spans driver and middleware development for PC, mobile and automotive platforms, including Linux kernel policy engines and power/battery management drivers. A pragmatic engineer who leads specification work with OEMs and vendor partners, he has twice earned Intel division recognition for scalable charger and platform power features. Colleagues rely on him for clean architecture, rigorous code reviews and solving tricky thermal/power sequencing problems that surface only in full-platform bring-up. He brings a consistent track record of turning complex hardware constraints into maintainable, field-ready firmware.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 75, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 75 at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College Of Engineering, HyderabadSSC, 73, SSC, 73 at Jawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya, KrishnapuramDiploma, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 80.5, Diploma, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 80.5 at Sri Venkateswara University
English
Github Skills (29)
infiniband10
smartphone10
fastboot10
freertos10
git-repository10
zephyr-rtos10
mcu10
bluetooth-le10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
kernel10
xiaomi10
iot10
rtos10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
VenkatKotakonda/zephyr
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecureinfiniband
CM-CHT/android_kernel_intel_cherrytrail
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:450 commits in 1 year 2 months
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