Vinod Koul
Sr Tech Lead at Linaro
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVinod Koul is a senior technology lead with 15 years of experience building and managing globally distributed teams to deliver Linux-based solutions for Qualcomm SoCs and other ARM64/x86 platforms. He leads Linaro’s Qualcomm Services business, guiding BSP development, upstreaming, and long-term maintenance across Yocto, Debian and AOSP environments. A long-standing Linux kernel maintainer, he drives subsystems including soundwire, Generic PHY, dmaengine and ALSA compressed audio (tinycompress), and has a track record of upstreaming complex chipset support such as SM8350/SM8450. Vinod blends deep hands-on driver and architecture expertise with customer-facing leadership, helping customers navigate security updates and LTS/upstream strategies. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs an MS in Telecommunications from IISc with a pragmatic focus on shipping robust, upstream-friendly solutions that reduce downstream maintenance for OEMs.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Telecommunication, MS, Telecommunication at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Github Skills (115)
linux-distribution10
beagleboard10
subsystem10
distro10
surface-duo10
linux10
linux-kernel10
computer-engineering10
busybox10
samsung10
zen10
kernel10
iio10
pulseaudio10
electrical-engineering10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vinodkoul/bootrr
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
vinodkoul/cdba
Jan 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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