VINEESH KUMAR K K
Bangalore
Summary
Expertise in system software development, thermal, power, and performance engineering, as well as startup experience in building products and businesses.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Software Development Engineer - System/Middleware/Thermal
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
04.2021 - Current
- Responsible for delivering Intel Dynamic Tuning Technology (DTT or DPTF, Thermal) software on Chromium OS and Linux.
- Product Owner: Lead a team responsible for the delivery of the DTT software and define a yearly roadmap for DTT for Linux/Chrome.
- Propose and implement new policies for Chrome/Linux DTT.
- Power & performance evaluation of new thermal policies.
- Thermald vs DTT - Power and performance analysis on Ubuntu using phoronix test suite.
- Core-offline study for gaming benchmarks, and presenting the analysis to intel fellows.
- Conduct PoCs & experiments to develop new thermal policies
- Implemented radio frequency interference mitigation software to improve the COMMS performance.
- DPTF GitHub: https://github.com/intel/dptf
Founder CEO & Product Architect
DreamStateLogic Technologies Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 03.2021
- Successfully launched two products into the market
- Pocket‑Fit UPS for routers and small devices
- It had the best average rating on Amazon
- Designed, and developed a power delivery product(Pocket‑Fit UPS) with advanced charging, safety, and power delivery features
- Good understanding of the startup ecosystem, Vendor and resource management, manufacturing, and digital marketing
- Enabled Customer support through an Alexa Skill
- MakeYourFirstRobot.com: A hardware platform and portal for online Robotics education
- Prototyped Product: An Intelligent WiFi smart switch
- Designed and Developed a WiFi Smart switch on the FreeRTOS platform
- A production‑ready prototype with context‑aware features
- Hands‑on IoT with MQTT protocol and amazon IoT Cloud
- Designed the most cost‑efficient AC‑DC converter for the ESP module
- Hands‑on with FreeRTOS on ESP WiFi module, WiFi provisioning, and smart binding.
Software Engineer-Drones
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd.
05.2017 - 07.2019
- Designed and developed a GPS simulator for Intel aero drones
- A wireless power monitor tool for drones
- ROS application for an indoor PoC
- Tools development on NuttX RTOS.
Software Engineer- Power Delivery & Energy Management
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
05.2013 - 05.2017
- Design and Development of Linux kernel drivers for PMICs, battery, charger, fuel gauge, and charger dock solutions
- Development of USBC on Embedded controller
- Instrumental in enabling the power delivery software on Dell Iconic
- Successfully delivered the power delivery software for battery, charger, and PMIC on Intel platforms
- Design and development of an intelligent charging model for improving battery longevity
- A context‑aware charging algorithm with more than 80% prediction accuracy
- Co‑design and implementation of A4WP/REZENCE wireless charging
- A4WP/REZENCE protocol implementation in‑kernel driver
- Kernel driver for wireless power receiver
- Use case definition for wireless charging
- Software architecture documents and schematic review
- Good understanding of power supply class, I2C, and SPI
- Active participation in platform power on
- Represented power delivery software team for power‑on of the latest Intel platforms
- Proposed Proofs‑of‑Concept and prototype implementation
- Implemented the software on the evaluation kit
- Experimented with a new charging technique
- Led the power delivery feature integration effort on the platforms
- Led the use case integration of power delivery software on the platform at different stages of the projects
- Led USB Certification and CEC compliance activities
- Led Marshmallow upgrade on new Intel platforms
- GITHUB link: https://github.com/search?q=vineesh.k.k%40intel.com&type=Commits&utf8=%E2%9C%93
System Engineer- Power and Performance
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
08.2007 - 04.2013
- Proposed and developed CPU and GPU governor for better perf/watt
- Software tools development for SoC architecture analysis
- System power and performance analysis on Intel SoC
- Designed and developed a tool for getting CPU C/P States, memory bandwidth, and SoC sub‑system residencies
- Developed tools for getting modem states DCH/FACH/PCH
- Instrumental in shipping the first Intel IA‑SoC‑based phone product with competitive power/performance figures
- Actively involved in reducing the platform standby power by 10x for Medfield
- Platform rail level power measurement and analysis
- Embedded Linux conference presentation link for details
- Represented the team for task‑force activity at ODM/OEM
- Performance analysis of various use cases, browsing, 2D graphics and HTML5, Video streaming, CPU benchmarks
- Performance analysis using Vtune, Ftrace, and PVR‑tune
- Performance analysis on FISHTANK HTML5 benchmark
- PnP analysis of video streaming and video playback
- Power and performance optimization of system standby power, HTML5, Flash Video streaming, and browsing
- Video/FLASH FPS measurement tools
- Application response time measurement tool Optimization of flash video streaming power
- Browsing power optimization on chrome browser
- The power and performance projections
- Workload definition and development
- Defined and created browsing workload, works across the OSes
- HTML5 workload development
- Developed custom versions of the Fishtank benchmark for GFX 2d performance analysis and optimization
- Power projection using subsystem residencies of various use cases Profile‑guided optimization of standard CPU benchmarks like EEMBC, Core mark, HINT, and SPEC
- Find the right combination of compiler flags for getting the best score for the CPU benchmark
- Profile guided optimization using intel compiler
- Conducted architecture experiments for evaluating architectural features
- Review with senior architects/Fellow
- Competitive analysis of power and performance of various platforms.
Software Engineer-Graphics
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
07.2005 - 07.2007
- Tools development for graphics driver validation
- Test case development and driver debugging.
Education
Master of Science - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology (WILP)
01.2016
Master of Computer Application -
Sikkim Manipal University (DE)
01.2008
Certification - Machine Learning
Stanford University (Coursera)
09.2020
Certification - Robotics- Aerial Robotics
University of Pennsylvania (Coursera)
04.2017
Course - Hardware/Software Interface
University of Washington (Coursera)
07.2020
Course - High-Impact Business Writing
University of California (Coursera)
09.2020
Course - Building RISC-V SoC From Scratch
Udemy
06.2024
Skills
- Power and performance analysis, optimizations and projections
- Workload analysis and characterization
- System software design and development
- Design and development of power delivery hardware and software
- Linux Kernel driver and firmware development,
Publications
- Architecture tool for Power analysis and modeling, Intel Low Power conference, 2010.
- Optimization and analysis of browsing UC power in the wireless environment, Intel Wireless conference, 2011
- Shipping an IA Smartphone, Intel Fellow's Power Conference, Feb 2012.
- Intelligent charging model for improving the battery longevity, Intel DTTC, 2015.
- Published the book “Make your First Robot”, Sept 2017. NotionPress Publication.
- GPS simulator for Drones, IEEE Drone Computing Symposium, 2017.
Timeline
Staff Software Development Engineer - System/Middleware/Thermal
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
04.2021 - Current
Founder CEO & Product Architect
DreamStateLogic Technologies Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 03.2021
Software Engineer-Drones
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd.
05.2017 - 07.2019
Software Engineer- Power Delivery & Energy Management
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
05.2013 - 05.2017
System Engineer- Power and Performance
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
08.2007 - 04.2013
Software Engineer-Graphics
Intel Technology India (p) Ltd
07.2005 - 07.2007
Master of Science - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology (WILP)
Master of Computer Application -
Sikkim Manipal University (DE)
Certification - Machine Learning
Stanford University (Coursera)
Certification - Robotics- Aerial Robotics
University of Pennsylvania (Coursera)
Course - Hardware/Software Interface
University of Washington (Coursera)
Course - High-Impact Business Writing
University of California (Coursera)
Course - Building RISC-V SoC From Scratch
Udemy
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