About

Chandrasekhar Pullela is a highly experienced Senior Consultant at Qualcomm with over 12 years of experience in the field of software engineering. He has significant experience with the ARM processor architecture, having spent four years debugging the Qualcomm Snapdragon family of Applications Processors. Chandrasekhar is an expert in debugging Linux Kernel issues and analyzing ARM instructions in Trace32 (Kernel Layer). He has a good understanding of ARM architecture (ARM v7/ARM v8) and has developed watchpoint automation scripts to debug live/realtime issues on T32 in CMM. Chandrasekhar is also knowledgeable in Linux Kernel Debugging, Linux Device Driver development, and Linux Android Power management framework. He has worked on end-to-end stability concerns and escalated customer support requests on various Qualcomm chipsets, including Snapdragon 616, 617, 650, 652, and also snapdragon 400,800 series. He has also developed a Linux watchdog driver across different platforms and tweaked kernel code for debugging. Chandrasekhar has worked on trivial HW issues confined to customer returned silicon (RMA) to verify, diagnose & conclude from both the HW/SW. In addition to his work at Qualcomm, Chandrasekhar has also worked as a Consultant at Samsung, where he was responsible for gap and schematics analysis from Android GB to ICS. He has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Smartplay Technologies, where he worked on multiple snapdragon soc targets and was responsible for OS up-gradation of Android amazing smart phone project. Chandrasekhar holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Embedded Systems from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the same university. His technical skills include Android, test, Mobile, and Software Engineering. With his relevant experience of 12.70 years, Chandrasekhar is a highly skilled and knowledgeable Senior Consultant with a deep understanding of the ARM processor architecture and Linux Kernel Debugging.