Sai Dasari
Senior Software Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSai Dasari is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in California with 11+ years leading teams that build cloud-scale infrastructure and embedded systems for data center automation. He has repeatedly taken products from hack to deployment—most notably pioneering OpenBMC at Meta and contributing substantial back-end features to the widely adopted facebook/openbmc project. At Google and NVIDIA he drove scalable telemetry, CI/CD, and control-plane initiatives that improved observability, release cadence, and developer velocity. Sai combines deep embedded firmware expertise (RTOS, U-Boot, Coreboot/OSF) with cloud-native management practices, enabling cross-functional delivery across hardware, firmware, and software stacks. He’s known for creating offshore development centers and evangelizing open-source ecosystems, helping OpenBMC grow to dozens of companies and hundreds of developers. Pragmatic and communicative, he excels at mentoring engineers while architecting high-availability, remotely manageable systems for hyperscale environments.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MS (Software Engg), Cloud Computing and Virtualization, MS (Software Engg), Cloud Computing and Virtualization at San José State UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadTadikondaNon-Degree Option[NDO], Non-Degree Option[NDO] at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
c1710
gpio10
c1110
openbmc10
ipmi10
scripting9
python9
shell9
script9
sh9
embedded8
sys8
i2c7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/openbmc
Dec 2015 - Feb 2018
OpenBMC is an open software framework to build a complete Linux image for a Board Management Controller (BMC).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:373 commits, 8 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sai primarily contributed to the OpenBMC project by implementing and extending functionality related to board management controller (BMC) features. They added support for remote BMC node rebooting and also enabled BMC reset via external reset pulse signals. Furthermore, they integrated features for in-band commands, including support for reading FRUID data and adding support for OEM command to set GPIO. Their work involved modifying Python scripts and shell scripts and updating C code to provide power and manageability features for the OpenBMC platform.
linuxopenbmc
facebook/openbmc-linux
Sep 2014 - May 2017
Linux kernel consumed by OpenBMC
Contributions:54 commits in 2 years 8 months
linux-kernelopenbmc
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