Vinay N
Principal Engineer at Stratus Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVinay N is a Principal Engineer with 10+ years specializing in low-level firmware, Linux kernel, bootloader and board bring-up across ARM and x86 platforms. He has driven complex device bring-ups and driver development—DSI/LVDS display pipelines, battery chargers, PWM backlights, Ethernet MACs and SFP/SFP+ PHYs—contributing upstream patches to mainline Linux. At SMART Wireless Computing and now Stratus Technologies he led platform integrations for Qualcomm and Cavium architectures, tackling DDR/debugging, thermal and power management, and manufacturing test automation. Vinay pairs deep computer-architecture curiosity with practical embedded systems craftsmanship, from bootloader-level PHY initialization to DRM encoder drivers. He is an active kernel contributor with notable work on apq8064/mdp4 and Nexus7 display drivers, and often bridges Linux and Android bring-up across boards. Based in Bengaluru, he holds an M.Tech in Computer Science and brings a persistent focus on BIOS/boot, microprocessor internals and kernel-level correctness.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Tech, Computer Science, M.Tech, Computer Science at B. M. S. College of EngineeringB.E, Computer Science, B.E, Computer Science at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Github Skills (14)
edges8
rockchip7
kernel6
busybox6
distro6
linux6
linux-kernel6
caf5
python-bindings5
linux-distribution4
cairo4
python4
android-ndk3
arm2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vinaysimhabn/msm
Jul 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 49 pushes, 45 branches in 4 years 3 months
vinaysimhabn/docs
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 21 days
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