About

Pankaj Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the field of firmware development, drivers, libraries, and applications on the Linux Platform. He has a strong foundation in software engineering, data structure, operating systems, and embedded systems. Pankaj holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the prestigious NIT Jaipur and has co-authored and published papers in IEEE. Pankaj is currently working with Xilinx Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer and is responsible for developing software required for reference designs and proofs-of-concept of new FPGA Applications. He has worked on projects from scratch and has also worked on enhancements to existing projects. Pankaj has insight into software development in C/C++/Python, Socket Programming, Linux System Programming, and Linux Kernel Programming. Prior to Xilinx, Pankaj worked with Qualcomm Inc. for almost 2 years in the Android GPS Team. During his tenure, he gained insight into board bring-ups, feature enhancements, and large-scale product development. At Xilinx, Pankaj has worked on various projects such as 100G Network Interface Card, SDAccel (Software Defined Acceleration), and 400G Flex Ethernet. He has contributed to the development of Kernel Module for 100G network interface, Kernel networking subsystem and user space tooling’s for platform management, and developed C++11, OpenCL and OpenCV based interface for image classification on FPGA. Pankaj's technical skills include Software Engineering, C, ML, Research Scientist, OpenCV, test, and C++. He has a strong understanding of multi-queue DMA, PCIe, PHY, CMAC, QSFP, I2C, SERDES and 802.3 specification. Pankaj has also presented the Network-on-Chip research at the University of Southampton, UK. Overall, Pankaj is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with expertise in firmware development, drivers, libraries, and applications on the Linux Platform. He has a strong foundation in software engineering, data structure, operating systems, and embedded systems, and has worked on various projects from scratch and enhancements to existing projects.