About

Sandeep Panda is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience in system software development. He has a strong background in C/C++ programming, low-level programming, and developing device drivers and firmware for multimedia subsystems on both Linux and Windows platforms. Sandeep has a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms, which has enabled him to contribute to the open-source DRM framework in the Linux kernel. Sandeep's technical skills include Linux device driver development, Linux kernel debugging, frame-buffer display framework, MIPI DSI display interface, HDMI display interface driver architecture, HDCP protocol driver architecture, DP/eDP interface, DRM/KMS display framework, mobile display processor, SOC pre-silicon/post-silicon bring-up activities, GIT repository, Objective C, Perl/Python scripting, board bring-up on Snapdragon SOC, driver porting across Linux kernel upgrade, little kernel bootloader/UEFI/firmware, and HW tools such as JTAG Trace32 Debugger/WinDbg/Oscilloscope. Currently, Sandeep works as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he is responsible for embedded and system software development for Microsoft's Surface Duo devices. He is working on Android graphics/display and camera stack. Sandeep has also worked as a Senior Lead Engineer at Qualcomm, where he developed Linux device drivers for DSI/HDMI/DP/LVDS/DBA display interface on Qualcomm SOCs, driver development for Qualcomm Mobile Display Processor (MDP) for Android Platform, feature design and coding, performance and power optimization, and Linux kernel upstream work on DRM/KMS subsystem as part of Google Chrome Tablet Project. Sandeep has also worked as a Graphics Software Engineer at Intel, where he developed Windows Display Driver for Intel Atom Processor, device drivers for protocols like MIPI DSI/HDMI/HDCP, compliance of HDMI, HDCP, and WHQL certification of KMD driver for display subsystem, and worked on the implementation of VBT that is used to communicate between VBIOS/GOP and Windows Display driver. Sandeep holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. He is proficient in software engineering, Android, mobile, Objective-C, and C programming languages. Sandeep's vast experience and technical skills make him an asset to any organization he works with.