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Principal Software Engineer at Synaptics (driver & firmware design and development)

About

• Keen to work on system-level and low-level software • Technology follower - Hypervisor and its applications in automotive • Open-Source contributions - https://github.com/search?q=author-email%3Akanni.pramod%40gmail.com&type=Commits • Extensively worked on wifi upper-mac firmware development • Complete knowledge of sdio bus protocol and its subsystem in Linux • Worked on arm-cr4 based wlan soc tape-out involving rom code freeze • Worked on Broadcom WiFi 11n/ac features in brcmfmac linux driver • Worked on host side flow-control for sdio based wlan chips to support concurrent channels • Productised linux driver solution for two pcie wifi chips on a single automotive platform • Worked on PCIe based WiFi chips on Simultaneous Channel Operations • Working on supplicant driven WPA3 support for all cypress wifi products • Worked on Upnp/Dlna stack porting on iOS • Worked on multimedia framework on Digital-TV/Set-top box platforms • Worked on Linux Platform Driver Abstraction Layer on Set-Top Box platforms

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Principal Software Engineer at Synaptics Incorporated, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sr Staff Software Engineer at Synaptics Incorporated, Mar 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, On-site, - Design of firmware and driver for wifi-7 to address IoT market segment. - Firmware memory optimization techniques - Low power optimizations firmware feature design - Worked on multiple chipsets in pre tape-out and post tape-out phases - Worked on customer escalations in wlan bring-up

SoC Design Engineer - Firmware at Intel Corporation, Feb 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on firmware development for a power critical IP which goes into next generation Intel Desktop/Server SoCs.

Principal Software Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, Oct 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on supplicant driven WPA3 support to all cypress wlan products Worked on latest 802.11ax radio based wifi chip release to automotive market Working on technical feasibility analysis of various upcoming features/use-cases

Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Acquired Broadcom IoT BU), Dec 2016 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on Simultaneous dual-band roles for Automotive IVI specific use-cases. Bringup of two wifi chips on single Nvidia platform for high-end Automotive platform. Bringup of RSDB solution on sdio based wlan products Tapeout of RSDB 802.11ac wifi chip for Automotive including ROM spin. Worked on WFA Certification support of 1x1, 2x2 11n/ac WMM for Automotive customers.

Technical Consultant at Broadcom Limited, Nov 2013 - May 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore, Worked in wlan technology - 802.11n/ac broadcom wifi chipsets Worked on wifi in upper-mac firmware developement Worked on sdio-based wifi chips bring-up on various host platforms Worked on performance improvement Worked on power optimization tunings Involved in design discussions of google hal support for nan protocol Presented and conducted workshop at customer sites showcasing upcoming wifi feature set chips

Education

B.E., Electronics & Communication, Appa Institute of Engg. & Tech.