About

Vikram Kanigiri is a highly skilled Sr Software Engineer at NVIDIA with over 12 years of relevant experience in the field. He is well-versed with ARMv8, ARMv7 architecture, and ARM peripherals, chip/board/fpga/emulation bringup. Vikram has developed drivers for PMICs, fuel gauge, chargers, and DSI, which has helped him gain expertise in these areas. Currently, he is working on next-generation automotive System S/W development using INTEGRITY RTOS and QNX. He is responsible for developing software that will be used in the future of automotive vehicles. Before his current role, Vikram worked as a System software engineer at NVIDIA, where he developed drivers for PMIC modules, designed an intermediate loader `microboot` to speed up the boot process, and implemented secure boot, enhancements in fastboot protocol, etc. He was also involved in multiple platform and SoC bringups, including the Nvidia Denver Chip till tapeout, where he led all the efforts in the design, discussion, development of Bootloader, and NvFlash with all the teams. Prior to NVIDIA, Vikram worked as a Firmware Engineer at ARM, where he developed firmware to support the ARM Power State Co-ordination interface, added support for new ARM protocols and peripherals like CCI, CCN, and cores like Cortex A72, and developed a multi-core test suite framework with features like a timer, event manager, interrupt manager, test cases management framework, which can be used to validate an EL3 implementation for PSCI specification. He was also responsible for bringing up various models to test new ARM peripherals and cores and developed Jenkins scripts for automation of build and integration testing. Vikram holds a B.TECH degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology and completed his schooling from Military School Belgaum. He is proficient in Software Engineering, test, QA, Jenkins, Integration, and has a strong technical background.