About

Girish Kunthur Shivananda is a Senior Software System Designer at AMD with over 10 years of experience in the technology industry. He is actively seeking opportunities in System Integration & Validation, Engineering Manager, and Tech with IT Product based companies. Girish is a result-oriented and self-motivated individual with a great zeal for innovation. He is a diligent self-starter, continuous learner, and avid net worker. He is always seeking opportunities for growth and development. Girish is a very good team player with a positive attitude to solve challenging problems. He possesses excellent communication and leadership qualities. Girish has strong hands-on experience in drive test planning and execution, selecting and developing integration testing techniques for ensuring the systems’ overall capability of fulfilling the client's business requirements. He is a Scrum Master with expertise in bug first-level analysis, bug tracking, generating new ideas on Automation for bug reproduction, manual checking, and validation. He participates in designing custom integration tests, reviewing functional specifications to identify open issues. Girish has worked for Western Digital as a Staff Engineer, where he contributed to firmware validation for enterprise storage products. He effectively worked with various teams in Japan and Malaysia and contributed to test firmware for various enterprise products. He is excellent at identifying and filing blocker/critical bugs, performing first-level failure analysis, and following up with test development/firmware development teams to resolve the bugs within the schedule. Girish has also worked for Intel as a Software Engineer, where he contributed to Chrome validation and automation, touchpad, touch panel, and sensors validation for Braswell and Broadwell platforms. He was responsible for benchmarking applications on Intel and competitive devices, enabling Gcov, Lcov, and Val-grind for MBIM - ril, test source code coverage analysis, and memory leak debugging tools and HTML report for MBIM tests. Girish has an MS in Embedded Systems from Manipal Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Careers in Ramanagaram. His tech stack includes designer, test, integration, infra, software engineer, senior software engineer, Jenkins, Android, research scientist, UI, and web. He has 9.69 years of relevant experience.