About

Venkat Vangala is a Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm with over 22 years of experience in the field of computer engineering. He is currently working on UEFI Core services and FW_Networking, with a focus on ARM v8 and SMP architecture. Venkat has extensive experience in deployment, benchmarking, and performance optimization of OPNFV D/E (Yardstick and Functest), DPDK, OVS-DPDK, VM, and Intel ONP NFV cases. He is also actively involved in working with OpenSource communities like OPNFV, DPDK, Openstack, and OVS. Venkat has worked with companies like Linaro (SDI), ENEA (OPNFV), Mellanox, and 6WIND for various projects. He has a thorough understanding of server virtualization (KVM) and gateway/network processor architecture, as well as offload fast path architecture for Ethernet/VDSL/ADSL bonding/non-bonding. Venkat has also worked on pre-silicon (Palladium) and post-silicon development, validation/bring up of network processors, and bring up of SOC, firmware, and bootcode (Bootrom, PBL). Venkat is an expert in Linux device drivers for n/w (Ethernet/RGMII, VDSL, ATM), GPIO, WDT, GPT, SPI, Mailboxes, Doorbells, and has a good understanding of Linux kernel internals and system programming/debugging using JTAG/FS2. He is proficient in C and Assembly programming on ARMv7/v8, MIPS based platforms, and accelerator processors. Venkat has experience in VoIP framework on RG and performance tuning of voice quality with RTP, RTCP, and AJB. He has also worked on various DSP processors ADSP21xx, Phillips, FXS/FXO on Silabs/Legerity SLIC Codecs using SPI. Venkat has a strong track record of balancing technical and managerial activities, handling architecture, SW/FW development with hands-on experience. He has experience in executing the complete PDLC/Agile Scrum process, production software releases, and project management. Venkat is an excellent mentor and has deep dive analysis/debugging skills with the team. He has worked with Qualcomm as a Senior Staff Engineer/Manager and with Ikanos Communications as a Manager, GW Software Arch.