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title: "Ankit P Navik - Senior Staff Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ankit P Navik, Graphics/System Software, Linux Kernel | IEEE TPC Member based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, deepmind, and gemini."
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# Ankit P Navik on Tal

## Headline

Graphics/System Software, Linux Kernel \| IEEE TPC Member

## About

11\+ years of experience in system software & middleware on various products such as Client, Automotive, Smartphone/watches & IoT\. Skilled in Graphics, PnP, Linux middleware/kernel, Telephony, Bluetooth, and PnP optimization\. Individual with proven knowledge of research, development, root cause analysis to improve product\. Always keen to learn new technologies and adaptable to new challenges to achieve organization goals\. Good knowledge of open source software development\. https://scholar\.google\.com/citations?user=NX6YL5EAAAAJ&hl=en Open source contributor: \- Linux Telephony \(ofono\) \- Bluetooth Linux kernel \- Yocto/OpenEmbedded Project \- meta\-intel \(Yocto project\) \- Linux Multimedia messaging service \(mms\)

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

deepmind

gemini

## Work experience

Senior Staff Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor, Jul 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Developing and optimizing ANGLE library for Samsung Xclipse GPUs\. Design and Implemented Vulkan extensions in ANGLE, leading to \~2 to 5% improvement in performance for Samsung Xclipse GPU\. Led graphics requirement for RISC\-V CPU SoC and fostered a collaborative partnership with Google to ensure seamless Android /Wear OS integration for RISC\-V Worked on Graphics ARM mali SW stack \(Kernel driver, user space library\) across various form factors such as smartphone, smartwatch GPU feature development and enhancement such as RTPM, DVFS and battery life evaluation of 3D vs 2\.5D GPU with AOD, etc\. Worked on Graphics SW stack for Samsung Exynos SoC, leading the efforts in product bring\-up, customer and CTS issue resolution, and product commercialization on 5\+ Samsung flagship/volume SOCs

Platform Architect \- \(Power and Performance\) at Intel Corporation, Jul 2019 \- Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo, Improved power by optimizing core display clock frequency dor externa 5K & 4K display in Clone mode, leading to 22% & 7% power saving at SoC respectively Improved power by proposing optimal frequency point for DDR5 with PnP analysis led to 14% reduction in SOC power at iso performance Improved power by optimizing display link rate, leading to 24% reduction in SOC power with Type C/external display usage Reduced E2E latency for external display by analyzing latency at various stages \(PD, display driver\), leading to a 46% reduction in latency Implemented proof of concept solution of platform power model for what\-if analysis to give battery life advisory to customer based on their chassis design at Pre\-Silicon stage Improved power consumption of Type C subsystem by analyzing residencies of CL0 vs CL1 which led to convincing OS vendor to support CL1 link state in the software connection manager for USB4 v1 Improved battery life for Chrome PLT by implementing dynamic power gating of EU in graphics linux driver Collaborated and guided execution team on power issues of USB\-C to meet customer & product requirement on 4\+ Intel SOCs https://patents\.google\.com/patent/WO2023168147A1/en?q=\(Navik\)&inventor=Ankitkumar&oq=Ankitkumar\+Navik&sort=new

Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation, Apr 2018 \- Jun 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos, Extended the Dynamic power gating of EU solution in ChromeOS, leading to Improved battery life for Chrome PowerLoadTest, beating pre\-si target and reduced BOM cost for the customer\. Worked on Dynamic EU control for efficient EU utilization to save power in i915 linux drm driver\. Enabling Triple buffering on Automotive platform to enhance GFX performance on Android\.

Software Development Engineer at Intel Corporation, Jul 2015 \- Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Key team player in enabling WiFi, Bluetooth and Telephony on 4\+ Intel IoT/automotive platforms Worked as lead for the Power\-On Camp to successfully bring up Bluetooth and Wi\-Fi for automotive platform on Linux Implemented Bluetooth LE Link Layer Privacy feature in linux kernel for Intel automotive platform and contributed patches to open source Implemented proof of concept for Visible Light Communication which was demonstrated by Intel at MWC 2017 Implemented cellular features such as LTE, IMS registration, VoLTE for XMM series modem and contributed patches to open source Implemented and design flow for OMA\-DM IMEI Sync \(ODIS\) specification for Intel IoT platform Trained and guided the team members in Yocto framework to meet project requirement

Lecturer at Government Polytechnic for Girls, Surat, Mar 2013 \- Jul 2013 · 5 mos, Surat Area, India, Subject taught: programming C and Data Structure

Intern at Xerces Technologies Pvt\. Ltd\., Jun 2011 \- May 2012 · 1 yr, Worked as Android developer for social messaging app for various modules such as service, navigation API, etc\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Computer Science, BMCET Surat

Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\.\), Computer Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat

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