Vlad Danushevsky

Principal Engineer @ Qualcomm

About

Firmware Architect with extensive experience in leading resource constraint designs with emphasis on resilience and optimal performance. In depth knowledge and hands-on experience of Software and Hardware design practices. Demonstratable technical leadership and people management skills. Expertise: CPU architecture, Firmware, assembly programming, networking, device drivers development, Operating Systems, baremetal development, boards bring-up, real-time, runtime performance optimization

Country

United States

City

Greater Boston

Industry

Semiconductors

Skill

Computer System Validation, Resolving Issues, Interpersonal Communication, Systems Engineering, Embedded Software Programming, Engineering, Graphics Processing Unit, Computer Science, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), Data Structures, RTL Coding, Documentation, Troubleshooting, Leadership, Peripherals, Electrical Engineering, Problem Solving, Analytical Skills, Embedded Systems, Device Drivers

Experience

Principal Engineer

Qualcomm

2019-9 - Present · 7 yrs 1 mo

Greater Boston

Designing PPA optimized GPU microcode tailored for both graphics and high-performance computing workloads. This is a hands-on role requiring comprehensive system-level understanding across software, firmware, and hardware domains.

Firmware Developer and Architect

Intel

2014-10 - 2019-9 · 5 yrs

Hudson MA

Responsible for pre-silicon design and execution of low-level Firmware targeted for various High Performance Computing (HPC) Interconnect Fabric ASICs, leading the products from a concept thru delivery. Participating in micro-architecture path-finding and design Proof-of-Concepts activities across various Data Center silicon products.

Principal Engineer

Oracle

2007-8 - 2014-10 · 7 yrs 3 mos

Burlington MA

Hotspot for Embedded Java Virtual Machine development for ARM and PowerPC based micro-architectures. Architecture, micro-architecture and platform specific performance optimization for Embedded platforms with emphasis on power and footprint constraints . New features implementation/optimization utilizing SoC HW capabilities. Includes security protocols, lock and lock free synchronization, data processing, failure recovery and more

Sr. Platform Engineer

SavaJe Technologies

2006-4 - 2007-8 · 1 yr 5 mos

Key Responsibilities: - SavaJe OS porting to various mobile platforms. SavaJe OS is a custom Operating System optimized for mobile devices. As the target is mobile device, high level of optimization is required to address power management and performance issues. - Boards bring-up, device drivers implementation, code optimization (low level and middleware)

Embedded Software Engineer

Sun Microsystems

2004 - 2006 · 2 yrs

Key Responsibilities: - Develop Firmware for Sun new standard Service Processor card. Service Processor card (PCI type interface) provides remote out-of-band real-time server instrumentation utilizing secure network (SSH over TCP/IP) and serial interfaces. High performance hard real-time VxWorks (and Embedded Linux in newer version) based application. - Low-level bring-up, BSP and device driver development.

Embedded Software Engineer

OASIS

2001 - 2004 · 3 yrs

Key responsibilities: Develop low-level Firmware and Control Software for various network and stand-alone devices for automotive industry. All the designs are highly optimized to overcome low memory and CPU cycles constraints. Participate in new silicon ICs tests and validation procedures. Create low-level libraries for new silicon designs. Porting of MOST control application to 3-rd party RTOS (Linux). Work directly with customers to resolve issues and assist in custom FW integration into Oasis ICs.