Vinayak Holikatti
Chief Engineer at Samsung Electronics
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVinayak Holikatti is a seasoned storage and systems engineer with 14 years of industry experience, currently serving as Chief Engineer at Samsung Electronics where he focuses on Linux device drivers, embedded and enterprise storage controllers, and BIOS OptionROM drivers. He brings deep expertise across UFS, NVMe, SAS, SATA and legacy BIOS OptionROMs, and has strong enterprise OS experience on RHEL and SLES. Earlier work includes building RAID and FPGA-related drivers—such as the Promise Supertrak EX8350 SATA RAID driver for Solaris—and porting drivers across embedded USB host controllers. Known for solving low-level interoperability challenges, he has been entrusted with on-site driver support assignments at SUN Microsystems. Based in Bengaluru, he combines hands-on kernel development with long-term product stewardship, often working at the intersection of firmware, drivers, and enterprise storage stacks. Colleagues would note his knack for untangling complex hardware-software integration issues that others deem intractable.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Information Science & Engineering Information Science & Engineering, Bachelor in Information Science & Engineering Information Science & Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversitySSLC General Studies, SSLC General Studies at M.V.M English Medium School
Github Skills (12)
mmc8
linux-kernel6
moto6
sd-mmc6
kernel5
storage5
linux4
embedded4
ufs4
xmake3
android-ndk3
android2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
turtleletortue/android_kernel_retroid_pocket2
Apr 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 10 months
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