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title: "Vaibhav Gilhotra - SDE 2 in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Vaibhav Gilhotra, SDE 2 @ Amazon | Ex-Google | Ex-Texas Instruments based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and kiro."
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# Vaibhav Gilhotra on Tal

## Headline

SDE 2 @ Amazon \| Ex\-Google \| Ex\-Texas Instruments

## About

Software engineer with 7 years split across two halves: 5 years in embedded firmware and silicon validation, then 2 years building AWS backend services and applied GenAI\. I build systems end to end: design docs, code, deployment, and on\-call\. Cloud and AI: at Amazon, backend services and data pipelines on AWS plus AI\-powered engineering tools\. An LLM\-assisted analysis platform on Bedrock and Claude used by 10\+ teams and 100\+ weekly users; an MCP server exposing live metrics over REST and GraphQL for CLI access; a zero\-downtime migration of 400M\+ records to Redshift that cut query latency 60%; ingestion at 25K\+ updates/day at 99%\+ uptime over 12 months\. Embedded and silicon: bare\-metal C firmware for USB\-C PD controllers at Texas Instruments across three chips, covering boot, OTP and register\-level work, developed pre\-silicon on FPGA and emulators then debugged on first silicon \(EVMs, socketed and solder\-down boards\)\. At Google, silicon validation and CI for custom silicon platforms: \~2,500 test cases, BootROM debug, boot KPIs, device drivers \(I2C, SPI\), framework runtime from 6 hours to 2, flakiness \~15% to near\-zero\. Automated six bench instruments end to end and built an in\-house source\-level code coverage tool\. Most of what I build is infrastructure other engineers depend on, so I care about reliability and about tools people actually adopt\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude

gemini

kiro

obsidian

Cerebras

## Work experience

SDE 2 at Amazon, Aug 2026 \- Present · 2 mos

SDET II at Amazon, Jul 2024 \- Aug 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Working on analytics, developer productivity, and engineering data platforms\. \- Built and own a Bug Escapes analysis platform \(React, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, Bedrock \+ Claude\) used by 10\+ teams and 100\+ weekly active users\. Drove \~10% drop in monthly production escapes through best\-practice adoption\. \- Built Playground, a self\-serve tool that turns natural\-language input into 3\-click visualizations and GenAI summaries over Jira and TestRail data, used by managers and leadership for on\-demand reporting\. \- Led a Timestream\-to\-Redshift migration of 400M\+ records over 3 weeks with zero downtime\. Cut query latency 60\-70% and expanded retention from rolling 6 months to rolling 2 years\. \- Own a Jira metrics ingestion pipeline on ECS Fargate processing 25K\+ issue updates a day across 3 Jira instances, \~200K total Jiras, 99%\+ uptime over 12 months\. \- Built a daily DOSTA metrics pipeline on ECS saving \~8 man\-days a month across 4 teams\. \- Built Shield and ACS executive dashboards on QuickSight \(20 role\-based views, 2\-hour auto\-refresh\) used weekly by 10\+ leaders and 50\+ engineers\. \- Onboarded multiple teams to shared analytics platforms\.

Silicon Software Test Engineer at Google, Jul 2022 \- Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Worked on silicon validation frameworks and CI infrastructure for Google's gChip platforms, across pre\-silicon and post\-silicon environments\. \- Owned \~2,500 test cases across 3 gChip platforms, covering device drivers \(I2C, SPI, SLC\), access control firmware, and KPI measurement for boot including USB Boot\. \- Parallelized test execution to cut end\-to\-end framework runtime from 6 hours to 2 \(66% reduction\)\. \- Ported the test framework from Java to Python and added cloud\-hosted device integration\. Brought flakiness on triggered runs from \~15% to near\-zero\. Took \~2 quarters\. \- Built a round\-robin scheduler for test\-case\-level scheduling that surfaced \~10% flake rate and drove fixes for one\-third of flaky tests via root\-cause patterns\. \- Set up Android presubmit CI from scratch\. \- Migrated presubmit jobs to new VMs across 8 consumer teams, cutting queue time from 1\-6 hours to \~20 minutes\. \- Drove resolution of virtualization software bugs that were blocking teams from adopting virtualization, unblocking them from emulation wait times\. \- Built real\-time test collector plugins and centralized job dashboards for faster triage\. \- Mentored 2 new graduate engineers and provided QA oversight for 2 contractors\.

Software Engineer at Texas Instruments, Jul 2019 \- Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, USB\-C PD firmware validation and embedded test infrastructure across 3 chips: notebook, automotive, and an Apple\-partner chip\. \- Planned firmware validation across Secure/Unsecure Boot, OTP, I2C, SPMI, GPIO, Powerpath, and Register Interfacing in both pre\-silicon \(FPGA, emulators\) and post\-silicon \(EVMs, socketed and solder\-down boards\) environments\. \- Sped up the validation framework from \~5 hours to \~3 hours \(\~40% reduction\) on a pool of \~2,000 tests, used by 4 engineers daily\. \- Automated 6 bench instruments: Saleae Logic Analyzer, Keil Debugger, Acroname USB\-C Switch, Prodigy SPMI Exerciser, Totalphase PD Analyzer, Teledyne LeCroy USB\-C PD Analyzer\. Saved \~30 min/day per engineer and enabled single\-go full test runs\. \- Built a pre\-silicon to post\-silicon abstraction layer to minimize test\-code changes across environments\. Partnered with digital design engineers across multiple RTL revisions\. \- Built an in\-house source\-level code coverage tool with path\-to\-test mapping and visual reports, which exposed untested code paths and drove targeted test expansion\. \- Built a Tkinter\-based internal GUI debugger that broadened tool adoption beyond the core CLI users, including engineers from sister teams\. \- Built a custom I2C analyzer plugin for Saleae used by \~15 engineers\. \- Authored a peer\-reviewed paper at TI India Technical Conference 2022 on automated test\-case generation\. Accepted at \~10% rate, presented to 500\+ engineers\. Surfaced 40 new test cases in a pool of 250 and cut manual test planning from 5 days to 1 day per engineer\. \- Awards: Global Recognition Gold \(Mar 2022\), Silver x2, Automation Champion \(Dec 2021\), Budding Talent \(Dec 2020\)\. \- Mentored 2 new graduate engineers during chip bring\-up and validation\.

President at IMAGES\_CHANDIGARH, Dec 2018 \- May 2019 · 6 mos, Chandigarh, India

Software Engineer Intern at Texas Instruments, Jan 2018 \- Jul 2018 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, USB\-C PD embedded controller framework, in C on a Tiva microcontroller\. \- Built an Embedded Controller framework from scratch in C, interfacing with the USB\-C PD Controller over I2C and ADC\. \- Improved customer scenario replication coverage from 35% to 75% by adding illustrative examples and strategic plug points, including patch download and multi\-interrupt cases\. \- Framework was in active team use through my subsequent full\-time tenure at TI from 2019 to 2022\.

Member at IMAGES\_CHANDIGARH, Feb 2016 \- May 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Chandigarh, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Punjab Engineering College

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