Ravi Kumar Bhattiprolu

About Ravi Kumar Bhattiprolu

Alumnus of NIT Warangal with three decades experience in architecting, developing, and deploying systems software & solutions, building, and managing teams for data center, networking, AI/ML, edge, and embedded market segments by partnering with different start-ups and global technology companies.With experience in hardware design flows and processor architectures, participated in the SoC system design with a focus on software architecture. I have built and led teams to develop device drivers, hardware abstraction layers for Linux and other operating systems including end-to-end development from board bring-up to reference applications. Transitioned to system architect role between 2015-22 to work on developing new technologies including proof of concept demos in wireless (5G) and enterprise network infrastructure, data centers and AI/ML. Had a short and bumpy 15 month stint till Sep\'23 at SiMa.ai as Director, software where I had managed Bangalore SoC software development team to define and develop end-to-end software, customer demos for SiMa\'s ML-SoC. In January 2024, joined Nvidia CPU team as Principal engineer.Specialties: System definition, System software architecture, development and system debug, AI/ML for embedded applications, 5G, Virtualization, SDN, NFV, Embedded systems development, HW accelerators, Networking protocols, Device Drivers, Linux Kernel, RTOS, Deep Packet Inspection, Processor Architectures, Simulation methodologies, ASIC/SoC design flows, H/W-S/W Co-verification and Co-Design, Project, People management, Hiring and setting up new teams.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   NVIDIA

   Jan 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• BSSS High School, Repalle

  SSC

  1984 — 1986

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  MS, Software Systems

  2004 — 2006

• National Institute of Technology Warangal

  B.Tech, Electronics & Communication

  1989 — 1993

• Majeti Guravaiah Junior College

  Intermediate, Maths, Physics, Chemistry

  1986 — 1988

Skills

• Digital Signal Processors
• System on a Chip (Soc)
• Soc
• Software Defined Networks
• Software Defined Networking
• Arm
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Architecture
• Virtualization
• Simulations
• Debugging
• C
• Hardware Architecture
• Embedded Systems
• Eda
• Device Drivers
• Embedded Software
• Asic
• Software Design
• Processors
• Microcontrollers
• Rtos
• Operating Systems
• C++
• Software Development
• Vxworks