Sukanto Ghosh - Principal System Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Sukanto Ghosh

Principal System Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Join Prog.AI to see contacts

Summary

👤

Senior

🎓

Top School

Sukanto Ghosh is a Principal System Software Engineer with 14 years of deep expertise in boot-firmware, SoC bring-up, secure boot, and low-level systems software, currently driving platform work at NVIDIA from Hyderabad. He pairs hands-on mastery of ARM (armv7/armv8) and PowerPC assembly with C, Linux kernel and hypervisor development to solve complex boot and hardware-abstraction challenges. At NVIDIA he progressed from Senior to Principal engineer after a decade of delivering production-ready firmware and platform validation, following earlier presilicon and post-silicon validation roles at AppliedMicro. An active contributor to the Xvisor hypervisor, he added ARMv8 support and improved interrupt and timer subsystems, revealing a knack for making virtualization more efficient on constrained platforms. Educated with an M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, he combines rigorous academic training with practical debugging skills used to rescue real-world bring-ups. Colleagues rely on him for low-level design, performance-minded fixes, and deceptively simple firmware that keeps complex SOCs booting and secure.

14 years of coding experience

13 years of employment as a software developer

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

B.Tech. Information Technology, B.Tech. Information Technology at Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Serampore

10+2 Science, 10+2 Science at BSF Senior Secondary Residential School, Kadamtala

English

Github Skills (16)

kernel10

arm10

timers10

interrupt10

time-management10

timer10

interrupt-handling10

device-driver10

c-programming10

architectures10

sys10

kernel-mode10

architecture10

virtualization10

device-tree9

Programming languages (1)

Github contributions (5)

xvisor/xvisor

Nov 2011 - Sep 2013

Xvisor: eXtensible Versatile hypervISOR

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:186 commits in 1 year 10 months

Contributions summary:Sukanto primarily focused on enhancing the Xvisor hypervisor's core interrupt handling and hardware abstraction layers. Their contributions included adding a flexible parameter to interrupt handlers for custom data passing and adding support for an idle vcpu to improve resource management. The user also implemented fixes in device driver code, ensuring that read/write callbacks for character devices are aware of blocking calls and improved the integration of the networking code. In addition, the user improved the structure of the generic timer and introduced ARMv8 support.

hypervisor

sukantoghosh/xvisor-next

Apr 2016 - Apr 2016

Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day

Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.

Request Free Trial