SRIVATHSA L RAO
Bengaluru
Summary
Kernel engineer with 4.5 years of experience in Linux kernel internals, ARM based SoC ring-up, virtualization (pKVM), low‑level driver development, schedulers, memory management, and performance engineering. Worked on mobile , laptop and server SoC BU and android phones. Strong background in distributed systems and scalable architecture design.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Kernel Engineer
Qualcomm
07.2025 - Current
- Worked on ARM server and laptop chipset bring-up including early boot and subsystem initialization.
- Customized and enhanced ARM_FFA driver and optimized communication with secure world components.
- Developed and debugged SMC (Secure Monitor Call) interfaces for Trusted Firmware-A.
- Contributed to pKVM enablement, verification, and stability improvements across hypervisor layers.
Senior Engineer (Kernel Developer)
Samsung Research
07.2024 - 07.2025
- Optimized CFS scheduler, achieving ~5% latency reduction on Samsung flagship devices.
- Developed kernel patches for reducing power consumption per core thus saving battery .
- Used perf, ftrace and eBPF for low-level performance analysis.
- Devloped a solution to optimize memory footprint for LLM use cases in phones.
- Enabled and stabilized drivers across clocks, interconnects, regulators, and peripheral subsystems.
- Performed kernel-level profiling with ftrace, perf and BPF to detect and resolve performance issues.
Founding Engineer (Architect)
Sparsa AI
06.2022 - 06.2024
- Built ML-based scheduling algorithms using MDPs for distributed systems.
- Designed scalable backend systems using LangChain, LangGraph and AWS Bedrock.
- Deployed and optimized microservices on Kubernetes and Docker.
Systems Engineer
IIT Hyderabad
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Developed distributed topic‑modeling system for 20M+ DNS logs/day using GPUs and Kubernetes.
- Deployed TrueNAS for 2000+ users ensuring redundancy and reliability.
- Optimized Mellanox 100G IpoIB drivers for VLAN/VXLAN in HPC environments.
- Developed AES-based RAM encryption kernel module for secure crash dumps.
Education
M.Tech - Computer Science
IIT Hyderabad
B.E. - Computer Science
VTU Bengaluru
BengaluruSkills
- Scheduler on ARM64, ARM FFA , Remote Proc, PKVM, Memory management
- ftrace, eBPF, perf, T32 debug,
- C ,C, Python, Bash
- Kubernetes ,Docker
- TrueNAS,SAN and NAS technologies
- BGP routing, OSPF protocols
- VLAN configuration
- AWS cloud services
- PyTorch,TensorFlow ,LangChain,Agentic AI
Accomplishments
• AIR 613 (99.34 percentile) — GATE 2021.
• 1st place — Machine Learning Hackathon (2021).
• 1st place — Machine Learning Hackathon (2021).
Timeline
Kernel Engineer
Qualcomm
07.2025 - Current
Senior Engineer (Kernel Developer)
Samsung Research
07.2024 - 07.2025
Founding Engineer (Architect)
Sparsa AI
06.2022 - 06.2024
Systems Engineer
IIT Hyderabad
08.2021 - 05.2022
M.Tech - Computer Science
IIT Hyderabad
B.E. - Computer Science
VTU Bengaluru