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SRIVATHSA L RAO
Bengaluru
Summary
Accomplished Kernel Engineer with over 5 years of specialized experience in Linux kernel internals, ARM-based SoC bring-up, and advanced virtualization techniques, including pKVM. Expertise includes mobile, laptop, and server SoCs, supported by a strong background in performance engineering. Proficient in developing low-level drivers, optimizing schedulers, and managing memory efficiently. Skilled in designing distributed systems and scalable backends while leveraging modern AI frameworks to drive innovation and efficiency.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Kernel Engineer
Qualcomm
Bengaluru, India
07.2025 - Current
- Performed ARM server and laptop chipset bring-up, focusing on early boot, subsystem initialization, and platform enablement.
- Leading ARM MPAM bring-up for the server chips — developing L2, L3 cache partitioning and monitoring, with tests on the pre silicon platforms.
- Customized and enhanced the ARM_FFA driver, improving communication with secure-world components with SMC calls for TF-A
- Contributed to pKVM enablement, verification, and stability improvements across hypervisor layers.
Senior Engineer (Kernel Developer)
Samsung Research
Bengaluru, India
07.2024 - 07.2025
- Optimized the CFS scheduler, achieving ~5% latency reduction on Samsung flagship devices.
- Developed optimizations to reduce memory footprint for LLM workloads on mobile devices.
- Developed kernel patches to reduce per-core power consumption of upto 12%, improving battery efficiency.
- Performed kernel-level profiling using perf, ftrace, and eBPF to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
Founding Engineer (Architect)
Sparsa AI
Germany
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
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
Indian Institute of Technology,
Hyderabad, IndiaB.E. - Computer Science
VTU
BengaluruSkills
- Core Kernel & Systems: Linux Kernel Internals, Schedulers (CFS), SMMU,MMIO/GPIO, I2C,SPI, ARM64, pKVM, RemoteProc, Trusted Firmware-A,MPAM,RemoteProc
- Low-level debugging: ftrace, eBPF, perf, T32
- Programming: C, C, Python, Bash
- Infrastructure & Distributed Systems: Kubernetes, Docker ,SAN/NAS (TrueNAS), VLAN, OSPF, BGP, AWS
- Machine Learning / AI: PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LangGraph, Agentic AI
Accomplishments
- AIR 613 (99.34 percentile) — GATE CS 2021.
- Masters in Computer Science in IIT Hyderabad.
- Co founded a German startup and raised over 800k euros.
- Worked with the Google Poland team on pKVM and it's vendor modules.
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
Indian Institute of Technology,
B.E. - Computer Science
VTU