Vysakh Pillai
Principal Engineer - System Engineering, HSIO at Tenstorrent
Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVysakh Pillai is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of systems and firmware experience, now driving High Speed I/O subsystems for next-generation AI accelerators at Tenstorrent. He has a strong track record at Microchip designing secure firmware, boot architectures, QEMU models and bespoke Linux distributions for RISC-V spaceflight and IoT platforms, blending hardware-rooted security with scalable software delivery. Vysakh pairs deep embedded and systems expertise with practical release engineering—he built CI/CD pipelines, a private package repo, and automated HIL frameworks to accelerate pre-silicon validation. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed TLS certificate integration for wolfSSL on constrained devices, demonstrating attention to cryptographic device integration details. Based in Maple Ridge, BC, he’s curious across the stack and known for turning complex platform requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Digital design and embedded systems, Master's Degree Digital design and embedded systems at Manipal Institute of TechnologyB-Tech ECE, B-Tech ECE at Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus
English, Malayalam
Github Skills (16)
dtls10
c1710
mtls10
embedded10
ssl10
tls1210
c1110
sys10
wolfssl10
tls1310
cryptography10
libtls10
encryption9
security9
c-library9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wolfSSL/wolfssl
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3!
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vysakh's contributions focused on integrating TNGTLS certificate loading for the wolfSSL library, specifically for Microchip MPLAB Harmony 3 and Atmel devices. They modified the `atmel.c` file to enable initialization and device certificate retrieval from ECC608 TNGTLS, effectively using the device certificate. Further commits refined the certificate handling process, including formatting and memory management related to certificate loading and utilization within the TLS/SSL context.
trusted-execution-environmentdata-storageopenssl-apiwolfsslfhe
vppillai/MPLABXMemoryAnalyzer
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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