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title: "K.Yashodhar Reddy - Software engineer -2 in Cuddapah | Tal"
description: "Meet K.Yashodhar Reddy, Firmware & Embedded Software Engineer | QNX | Embedded Linux | iMX8/iMX9 | TI AM62P | Device Drivers & BSP | Visteon based in Cuddapah. AI stack includes langsmith, openai, and railway."
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# K\.Yashodhar Reddy on Tal

## Headline

Firmware & Embedded Software Engineer \| QNX \| Embedded Linux \| iMX8/iMX9 \| TI AM62P \| Device Drivers & BSP \| Visteon

## About

Embedded Software Engineer with 3\+ years of hands\-on experience in embedded Linux and QNX RTOS kernel/driver development on TI AM62P, NXP iMX8 and iMX9 platforms at Visteon — a Tier\-1 automotive supplier powering Ford, BMW, and other global OEMs\. I work at the intersection of hardware and software — doing the kind of low\-level work most engineers don't get to touch: board bring\-up, BSP porting, device driver development, boot performance tuning, and deep peripheral debugging at the protocol/spec level\. Notable wins: ⚡ Reduced system boot time from 4s → 1s \(4x improvement\) on iMX9 via firmware profiling and low\-level tuning 🏆 2× Visteon Silver Award recipient for iMX9 bring\-up ownership and Ford project impact 🏆 Winner — CODE CRUISE C Hackathon \(Visteon, 2024\) Technical depth: \- OS/RTOS: QNX SDP 7/7\.1/8, Embedded Linux, Linux Kernel internals \- Driver Dev: Linux/QNX device drivers, resource managers, BSP porting, GPIO, UART,Signature Unit \- Peripherals: eMMC \(JEDEC spec\-level\), NOR Flash, UART,SPI, I2C — deep protocol analysis & debugging \- Platforms: NXP iMX8/iMX9, TI Sitara AM62P \- Tools: Yocto/BitBake, QNX Momentics, VectorCAST, Klocwork, Coverity, GitLab, Jenkins

## Location

Cuddapah

## AI stack

langsmith

openai

railway

v0

## Work experience

Software engineer \-2 at Visteon Corporation, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Embedded Linux & QNX Kernel/Driver Development — NXP iMX8,iMX9 and TI AM62P Platforms \- Achieved 4x boot time reduction \(4s → 1s\) on iMX9 through systematic firmware profiling and low\-level tuning — directly improving multimedia subsystem latency \- Led end\-to\-end board bring\-up for custom iMX9/QNX platform: boot flow analysis, peripheral initialization, hardware validation, and BSP low\-level driver porting \- Developed GPIO and Signature Unit resource manager drivers in C for QNX RTOS, ensuring correct peripheral init and inter\-process resource arbitration \- Implemented clock gating and power gating strategies to optimize power consumption on multi\-processor embedded hardware \- Analysed eMMC write behaviour on iMX8, investigated BKOPS host\-managed vs autonomous modes\. \- Diagnosed patrol read interference with Power\-Off Notification on Samsung eMMC causing boot regression\. \- Enabled UART\-based IPC with loopback and hardware flow control validation for reliable inter\-processor messaging \- 🏆 Silver Award \(Apr 2026\) — recognized for iMX9 bring\-up, eMMC EOL analysis, and QNX BSP porting ownership

Software Engineer at Visteon Corporation, Jul 2023 \- Mar 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Embedded Linux & QNX Kernel/Driver Development — NXP iMX8 Platform \- Debugged UART protocol IPC failures using QNX TraceLogger and Momentics IDE for kernel\-level log analysis; restored inter\-process communication stability \- Resolved eMMC boot issues on iMX8 via deep JEDEC spec analysis — patrol read, boot blocks, garbage collection, BKOPS, ext CSD registers, and driver configs \- Fixed backup GPT header corruption causing OTA and CAN reflash failures — traced root cause to image flashing defect and implemented driver\-level fix \- Validated Signature Unit & DIO Resource Manager on iMX8; performed CPU load profiling and unit testing with VectorCAST \- Developed manufacturing image generation scripts with binary integrity verification \- 🏆 Silver Award \(Jul 2024\) — Certificate of Excellence for outstanding business impact on Ford projects \- 🏆 Winner — CODE CRUISE C Hackathon \(Visteon, Jul 2024\)

Intern at Visteon Corporation, Jan 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 6 mos, \- Gained foundational understanding of embedded software architecture for automotive cluster systems on NXP iMX platforms \- Assisted in peripheral driver testing and hardware validation tasks \- Performed unit testing on resource managers using GoogleTest framework

## Education

Btech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology

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