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title: "Dileep Kunaparaju - Staff Enginer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Dileep Kunaparaju, Staff Engineer @ Qualcomm | Engineering Leadership in Embedded Systems, Firmware & Server Platforms | Agile/Scrum Lead & Mentor | 1 Patent Co-Inventor | MBA, Product Leadership based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and openai."
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# Dileep Kunaparaju on Tal

## Headline

Staff Engineer @ Qualcomm \| Engineering Leadership in Embedded Systems, Firmware & Server Platforms \| Agile/Scrum Lead & Mentor \| 1 Patent Co\-Inventor \| MBA, Product Leadership

## About

Love building products that help people achieve more\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude

gemini

openai

## Work experience

Staff Enginer at Qualcomm, Apr 2026 \- Present · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, System Validation & Emulation

Software Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies, Jan 2025 \- Apr 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Technical and delivery lead for server power\-management firmware, owning MCRPS, GPU power limiting, release management and ODM interlock\. • Served as ODM Scrum Lead and Scrum Master, running standups, SoSM planning and release\-wise implementation with stakeholders\. • Recognised by ODM partner Foxconn for coordinating development and best practices that cut feature\-completion time by 30%\. • Gathered and drove MCRPS \(OCP standard\) specifications and delivered common firmware for Dell BMC\. • Mentored engineers and represented the team in cross\-org release forums\.

Software Senior Engineer at Dell Technologies, Feb 2021 \- Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Owned node power management and PSU firmware updates for Dell PowerEdge server management controllers\. • Designed and implemented parallel PSU firmware updates, reducing multi\-PSU update time\. • Led the Quietest Config \(GPU Power Cap\) feature to delivery ahead of schedule through tight dependency management\. • Migrated node power telemetry from Intel NM to Intel CUPS; implemented PSU diagnostic and black\-box data collection\. • Authored Python test automation integrated with the MATF framework

Senior System Software Engineer at AmZetta Technologies, May 2013 \- Feb 2021 · 7 yrs 10 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Delivered and stabilised high\-impact products across virtualisation, IoT and thin\-client solutions, while mentoring new engineers and supporting quality compliance\. • AMI DuOS \(Android on Windows\): built Windows–Android communication \(ubus\); core work on Wi\-Fi drivers, wpa\_supplicant and Wi\-Fi HAL; ported multiple Android versions\. • AMI Skynet \(IoT Gateway\): architected microservices on a resilient Yocto\-based gateway; integrated InfluxDB and Grafana; implemented Puppet policy\-based auto\-signing\. • AMI IoTBrix: built firmware\-build containers across multiple SoCs; integrated I2C/SPI/UART/PWM sensors; enabled MQTT for AWS IoT and Azure IoT Hub\. • SnapVDI: developed a containerised \(LXD\) thin\-client VDI solution compatible with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft\. • Served as Internal Auditor for ISO 13485 medical\-device compliance \(AmZetta BOLT\) and mentored new recruits on development and firmware flashing\.

## Education

MBA \- Master of Business Administration, Product Leadership, Institute of Product Leadership

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Malla Reddy College of Engineering & Technology

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