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title: "Sadashiva Rao - Technical Lead in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sadashiva Rao, Software Engineer, Intel India. Google Project Management Certified, Machine Learning Certified from Stanford Univ-Coursera based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and kimi."
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# Sadashiva Rao on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer, Intel India\. Google Project Management Certified, Machine Learning Certified from Stanford Univ\-Coursera

## About

 Eighteen plus years of experience which includes six years in Intel Xeon Server domain \(RAS, IPU, AI\), six years in Embedded Systems in Mobile Wireless domain, six years experience in Android Device driver development, Trace32 and System debugging\.  Working actively on Agentic AI Tools development for Automation, Server Dashboards, Automated Firmware deployment tools\.  Have Good hands\-on on Server bring\-up, AI tool development and deployment, Server Reliability expertise \(Memory, CPU, Core and PCIe\)  Received CEO Gold award for SapphireRapids bring\-up/Power\-on during Covid\.  Involved in Device driver Development and porting on Android\.  Involved in Development and Commercialization of Wimax device driver for Google Nexus 4G, Camera Device Driver Development/Porting, Sensor driver development for Samsung Devices\.  Device Driver Development and Porting of Camera driver and HAL for Qualcomm chipsets\.  Ramdump analysis using Trace32 on ARM11 chipset\.  Optimization of Android system, Power management and stabilization\.  Worked with Samsung Korea for Wimax, Camera and System debugging\.  Out of My interest, I have successfully achieved Board bring\-up of TI based Panda Board ES for Android Jelly Bean\.  I have worked on Chrome book wifi/bt drivers, wwan\. I have worked on Automotive Android for 360 degree Camera\. I am currently part of Server development team working on RAS\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

kimi

mcp

ChatGPT

Veo

## Work experience

Technical Lead at Intel Technologies India, Aug 2014 \- Present · 12 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, A\. Google Chromebook System Integration and Debug\. \(2014\-2018\) 1\. Involved in Wi\-Fi/BT integration and debug for Chromebook for Baytrail, Skylake, Kabylake platforms\. 2\. Worked in Kernel driver and system debug\. B\. Android Software development for Intel Automotive Division \(2018\-2019\) 1\. Worked on End to end Camera development for Android Automotive group in Intel\. 2\. Involved in development of 360 degree camera\. 3\. Involved in Kernel/HAL and app level debug and development\. C\. Tech Lead in Intel Xeon Server group \(2020\- Till date\) 1\. Involved in RAS \(Reliability Availability and Serviceability\) execution and debug for Intel Xeon Platform\. 2\. Involved in Kernel debug and driver development for in\-house pcie gen5 card\. 3\. Involved in Execution and debug across OS, BIOS layers\. 4\. Involved in RAS Validation across Xeon 4, 5 and 6 platforms\. 5\. Involved in bringing Agentic AI development and deployment for DPDK and IPU

Lead Engineer at Samsung India Software Operations, Mar 2009 \- Aug 2014 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, A\)\. Camera Device driver and HAL development and Porting 1\. Development and Porting of Camera Device Driver on Qualcomm chipsets with V4L2 interface\. 2\. Ported driver and HAL on latest Android releases\. 3\. Fixed issues related to Kernel panics and feature related issues in Camera HAL during bring up stage of product\. 4\. Worked with Samsung Korea\(HQ\) in Suwon for a Duration close to a year for Wimax, Camera and System debugging\. 5\. Worked on power optimization for Camera module during recording\. 6\. Involved in resolving CTS related issues which were related to HAL\. 7\. Implemented frame rate for Camcorder MMS mode in driver\. 8\. Optimized the camera power\-up sequence and reduced the launch time as well as removed un\-necessary power off's which had resulted in I2C failures\. Implemented proper release of camera hardware in case of Camera Failure where clock, power and GPIO's were reset so that next launch of camera is successful\. 9\. Have knowledge on VFE and CAMIF for Qualcomm based devices\. 10\. Worked closely with Camera Module engineers for Tuning Camera for best picture and video quality\. B\) Wimax Device driver development and Porting 1\. WiMAX device driver development\(platform driver\) for Nexus S 4G\. Worked on Samsung Application Processor\. 2\. Board\-file related changes for WiMAX\. 3\. I2C driver for EEPROM which stores bootloader for EEPROM\. Tried bit\-banging mechanism to verify EEPROM write/read fail issues\. 4\. Worked on sleep current related power management issues by changing GPIO status\. 5\. Fixed kernel panic related issues, coded for SMP and involved in hardware probing to debug issues\.

Software engineer at Samsung India Software Operations, Feb 2008 \- Mar 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore, 1\. Development of Camera Settings on Symbian S60 5\.0 for Omnia HD\. 2\. Most of the work involved in interfacing UI with Middleware and Driver\.

Programmer Analyst Trainee at CTS, Jul 2007 \- Feb 2008 · 8 mos, Bangalore

## Education

BE, Electronics & Communication, PESIT, Bangalore

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