About

Vinoth Kumar is a highly skilled Senior System Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in embedded software/platform development. He is currently working at NVIDIA, where he has been instrumental in designing and developing software modules in C/Embedded C language on various OS/RTOS. Vinoth's professional skills include device driver development for basic and advanced communication protocols, Linux kernel and internal design/development on drivers and event handling, and proficiency in processor/controller peripheral subsystem such as PCI/PCIe, memory map, DMA engine, interrupt, timer, security engine, Ethernet, I2C & SPI controllers, and other on-chip peripheral devices. He has experience in designing interrupt handlers (both kernel and user space), DMA, crypto engine, configuration of PCIe inbound/outbound windows, and paging for high-speed peripherals. Vinoth is proficient in understanding system-level architecture, design, and debugging, and has hands-on experience in data-structure/algorithm and designing an infrastructure/middleware software architecture for a given hardware. He has worked with various microcontrollers, including SH7269, MSP430, AtMega168, CC2530, TI-Tiva (TM4C129), ESP8266, ESP32/ESP32-S2 (Wi-Fi chip), and SoC/Microprocessors such as P1010/20/21, AXX3500 (Axxia LSI), QCA9550/QCA9892 (WLAN SoC), BCM58712 (ARM based), and CPU cores like IBM Power-PC PPC440GX (2 Core), LSI PPC476FPs (6 - Core), NRF51822 (ARM Cortex M0), Intel (8051), Intel-Broadwel, Renesas Super-H, QCA9550 (MIPS), QCA9892 (Tensilica). Vinoth has worked with various vendor SDKs such as BCM-SDK (ASIC-Switches), QCA-LSDK (for WLAN), JUNOS customization, and debugging. He is also skilled in code management tools like Code Collaborator, GIT, SVN, Perforce, Review board, Gerrit, GNATS, and has experience in firmware applications for ultra-low power footprints like Bluetooth/Wi-Fi modules for IoT products. Vinoth has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Anna University. He has also worked at Juniper Networks and Altran as a Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer