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Sadasivan S.

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Professional Summary
Summary
• Over 14 years of experience in Full Cycle System Software development
• Expertise in system study, analysis, design and prototype coding
• Expertise in ISO/IEE standard software practices
• Expertise in OS development, build, and debug of kernels (Linux kernel)
• Expertise in device driver development (Linux)
• Expertise in UNIX internals and Socket programming
• Expertise in analysis, design, development, implementation of Networking applications
• Proficient in Multithreading implementation.
• Expertise in Scripting languages and tools (C/C++, Korn Shell, sed, awk, Perl), distributed networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet) to cross platform interfaces.
• Extensive working knowledge on x86 architecture
• Extensive working knowledge on ARM, Mips and ppc architecture.
• Extensive work experience in Memory management, I/O management, Networking and Hardware bring up.
• Experience in writing kernel module and device driver.
• Expertise in the following I2c bus protocols, UART, SPI bus Protocols, GPIO Programming, DMA, Ethernet
• Expertise in GPIO programming
• Expertise in PCI Express and PCI.
• knowledge in implementation of TCP/IP and in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP internals
• Expertise in Embedded system programming.
• Knowledge of IPV4 and IPV6 Networking protocols.
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with multiple Linux distributions.
• Strong management experience along with teamwork building and excellent communication skills.
• Good at mentoring junior Engineers.
• Submitted kernel patches to Linux kernel community

Expertise
  • Software Developer
    > 5 Year Experience

    5/5

  • C Programming C++ Embedded C Embedded Systems Linux Networking Software Architecture
    Employment History
  • Linux Software developer (kernel and userland)
  • Symantec Corporation Full Time
    Mountain View, CA, USA Sep 2017 - Oct 2019

    Linux Software developer - (Sr. Software Engineer)
    Environment: Linux (4.x) C/C++ (x86) (x86 Servers (secured Gateway))
    Responsibilities
    • Debugged Linux kernel/driver issues.
    • Developed multithreaded programming
    • Hardware bring up on Linux
    • Working knowledge on X86 Architecture.
    • Worked on BMC side of the X86 server.
    • Debugged Hardware Issues.
    • Worked on I2c, UART development
    • Worked on Debugging USB issues on X86 server.
    • Developed Code using GPIO programming.
    • Developed Diagnostic Test (Multi-threaded) for NVME/Hard drives for X86 Servers.
    • Developed Diagnostic Test using socket programming for Network cards.
    • Added Diagnostic features for LED, ID LED, Network Cards and other Hardware Components.
    • Worked on Adding Crypto Card support
    • Worked on Adding Different Network card support on X86 server.
    • Used oscilloscope to debug the issues
    • Have experience reading schematics and data sheets.

  • Linux Software Developer(kernel and userland) (Technical Lead)
  • Cisco Full Time
    San Jose, CA, USA Feb 2015 - Jun 2017

    Linux Software developer - (Technical Lead UCS Server division)
    Environment: Linux (2.6 & 3.0) C/C++ (x86) (x86 Datacenter Servers)
    Responsibilities

    • Debugged Linux kernel/driver issues.
    • Hardware bring up in Linux
    • Developed memory test to test all the memory on the server.
    • Debugged Hardware Issues.
    • Worked on Cisco Storage Server
    • Worked on BMC side for the x86 servers.
    • Initiated and Developed storage test to test all storage devices for the x86 Blade and Rack Server
    • Working knowledge on X86 Architecture.
    • Coordinate with 3rd party vendors to run their test on the x86 server
    • Developed diagnostic Tests to test each component of X86 blade and Rackserver.
    • Worked on creating Linux ISO for based on RHEL73
    • Run diagnostic test on GPU’s and different PCIE cards.
    • Have experience reading schematics and data sheets.

  • Linux Kernel developer (Technical Lead)
  • cavium(Montavista) Full Time
    San Jose, CA, USA Mar 2011 - Feb 2015

    Cavium Networks Inc (Montavista Inc) (acquired by Marvell) Mar2011 – Feb 2015
    Embedded Linux kernel/driver developer - (Technical Lead)
    Environment: Linux (2.6 & 3.0) C/C++ (x86, ARM, MIPS, PPC) (yocto)
    Responsibilities:
    • Linux Kernel programming and device driver development.
    • Hardware bring up on Real time Embedded Linux.
    • Trouble shooting HW device level problems.
    • Worked on Kernel and device driver problems in CISCO (customer) switches and Routers.
    • Worked on network, USB, SPI and I2c device drivers.
    • Experience working with Linux kernel community.
    • Worked on Virtualization software (VMware, VSphere) LXC., containers
    • Experience with Xen hypervisor.
    • Worked on scheduler, memory management, PCIE, USB, process Management.
    • Worked on board bring up.
    • Worked on networking stack (TPC/IP).
    • Worked on cavium SDK.
    • Worked on free scale sdk.
    • Familiarity with libvirt, libxc, libxl etc.
    • Worked on customer issues.

  • Embedded Software Engineer (Linux kernel/driver Engineer)
  • NTT DoCoMo U.S.A. Labs Full Time
    Palo Alto, CA, USA Mar 2008 - Jan 2011

    NTT DoCoMo U.S.A. Labs
    Environment: Linux (2.4 & 2.6), C/C++, ARM Mar 2008 – Jan 2011
    Embedded Software Engineer (Linux kernel/driver Engineer)
    Responsibilities:
    • Designed and Developed kernel module and device driver for the Config Access tool for mobile handset.
    • Designed and Developed the ConfigAccess tool for openmoko
    • Worked on the Process management and Memory Management of Linux kernel.
    • Worked on device driver.
    • Modified the Linux kernel to add tracing probes for Config access tool.
    • Developed a tool for logging the Process creation and exit as well as file creation and exit.
    • The following information about processes has been logged from the kernel data structures.
    • Environment, Command line, Current working directory, root directory, executed command.
    • Developed API for dumping the process tree
    • Developed Filter module to filter the log files.
    • Worked on the Integration and testing of OS switching project.

  • Embedded Software Engineer (Linux kernel/driver Engineer)
  • NEC Labs America Inc. Full Time
    Princeton, NJ, USA Feb 2005 - Mar 2008

    NEC Labs America Inc.
    Environment: Linux (2.4 & 2.6), C/C++, MontaVista Linux, Vxworks, ARM Feb2005 - Mar2008
    Embedded Software Engineer (Linux kernel/driver Engineer)
    Responsibilities:

    • Worked on embedded system Linux (Mont vista Linux) for the NEC FOMA 900iL mobile handset.
    • Experiments with JFFS2 on NOR Flash and Nand Flash
    • Worked on mtd device driver.
    • Ported libc.so.6 onto Arm Linux.
    • Modified the Linux Kernel (2.4) to control the swappiness.
    • Mounted the Root file system on JFFS2.
    • Performed memory constrained experiments on the board.
    • Performed various test on the embedded system board to measure the Performance.
    • Debugged the system using J-Tag partner.
    • Experience in developing BSP.
    • Experience with 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards
    • Experience with CDMA/WCDMA air interface
    • Designed and developed TCP/IP based network application for Vxworks.
    • Embedded system programming for CO board (VDSL2).
    • Socket programming (TCP/IP, UDP) for embedded systems.
    • GUI (VC++) development for embedded systems.
    • Developed a client server program between the PC and the CO board.
    • Multithreaded implementation on server side of the program.
    • The sever side of the program was in Vxworks whereas the client side
    Of the program was developed in Windows and C++.

    Education
  • Electronics Engineering
  • cochin university of science and Technology
    Jul 1994

    B.tech in Electronics Engineering (4 Years)

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