ANNIRUDH DINESH
Chennai
Summary
Innovative Senior Firmware Engineer skilled in PCle architecture and NVMe protocols. Experienced in debugging and compliance validation, with a strong foundation in firmware development for embedded systems. Committed to leveraging expertise to drive successful silicon project outcomes.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Firmware Engineer
Microchip Technology India Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai
07.2021 - Current
- Embedded Firmware Engineer with hands-on expertise in firmware development for PCIe switches and endpoint devices.
- Strong working knowledge of PCIe and NVMe architecture, including protocol-level understanding and system integration.
- Experienced in debugging and decoding PCIe TLP packets and NVMe transactions using industry-standard protocol analyzers such as Teledyne LeCroy PCIe Analyzer and VIAVI Xgig Analyzer.
- Resolved PCIe Link Layer issues and validated compliance with PCIe Compliance Test Suite (CTS), ensuring robust system integration.
- Proficient in firmware development on RTOS platforms including Azure RTOS, as well as bare-metal environments.
- Contributed to silicon development lifecycle from pre-silicon validation through post-silicon bring-up to production, supporting successful delivery of two silicon projects.
- Experience in peripheral driver development for Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Analysed signals with DSOs and Salea logic analysers for debugging issues in PCB schematics and decoding UART protocols
Education
M.Tech (WILP) - Embedded Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
07.2022 - 05.2024
B.Tech - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Amrita Vishva Vidhyapeetham
Coimbatore , India 07.2017 - 05.2021
Skills
- Firmware development
- Embedded C programming
- PCI
- NVMe
- System-level testing
- ASPICE
- Jenkins Scripting
- Python for scripting
Certification
Co-published a patent for 'System for Multiple PCIe Hosts to Share SR-IOV Devices with Standard Host Drivers', 20250284654
Tools & Softwares Used
- Viavi PCIe & NVMe Protocol Analyzer & Exerciser
- Lecroy PCIe Analyser & Exerciser
- Greenhills Multi Debugger
- Salea Logic Analyzer
- DSO
- Git
- Jira
- Polarion
- Jenkins
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
Tamil
Intermediate
B1
Hindi
Intermediate
B1
Malayalam
Intermediate
B1
Timeline
M.Tech (WILP) - Embedded Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
07.2022 - 05.2024
Senior Firmware Engineer
Microchip Technology India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - Current
B.Tech - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Amrita Vishva Vidhyapeetham
07.2017 - 05.2021