Sanjeev Bansal

About Sanjeev Bansal

Contact: s••••••••@gmail.com25+ years of system-level expertise spanning Embedded Firmware, BSPs, and Linux kernel/device drivers across ASIC/SoC, FPGA, networking, and telecom domains. Combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership, cross-functional execution, and customer enablement at scale.§ Core Competencies • Strong FPGA-centric system experience, including close collaboration with FPGA and silicon teams on hardware/software partitioning, SoC bring-up, validation, and performance optimization across pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.• Experience leading as both a direct manager as well as being a technical leader directing the efforts of multiple teams to create whole products. • Co-Designed, validated and productized 5 ARM based SoC\'s including FPGA Hardware/Software validation to post-silicon board bring-up, BSP and support all SoC in production.• Focused on Embedded RISC-V/ARM/Linux on Microchip, Broadcom, Moschip, Freescale, Samsung and Atmel SoC\'s.• Strong domain knowledge in ARM processors, AXI Bus protocols, USB, Ethernet, TCP/IP and C programming in Telecom and Networking domain.• SoC developments in areas of Network Storage, USB over Ethernet, N/W Serial Servers and Thin Wearable Computers. • Key contributor for engineering design quality procedures at Moschip.• Work within a team of multidisciplinary engineers to plan, execute, and complete projects on schedule within budget for a specific customer.• Specializing in System level software development. I am interested in Algorithms and data structure.• Trained internal teams and field engineers on open source, working with the community, and tools used by the open source community.§ Programming SkillsExpert in C, KEIL C, Assembly, Microcode, shell scripting, diagnostics scripts and GDB. Familiar with JAVA, JDK, C++, MFC, Batch files. § Domain Knowledge and Key Specialties:In depth exp. in working with Drivers for Ethernet, fastpath, sriov, iommu, pcie, hypervisor, kernel bypass, I2C, SPI, USB 3.0,(Host and OTG/DRD), UART, Timers, Display (LCD, HDMI, DSI, DPI/DBI Panels), Touch Screen, MIPI CSI/Camera, Audio Interface (I2S, PCM, DMA), SMC NAND Flash, NOR Flash, SD MMC/SDIO/eMMC, AMBA AXI, AHB & APB.

Experience

1. Sr Manager -applications

   Microchip Technology Inc.

   Dec 2019 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Lead global Customer Applications Support Team supporting PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC platforms across networking, industrial, aerospace, and embedded Linux domains.• Technical owner for customer enablement on Linux, bare-metal, RTOS, and middleware stacks, including Ethernet, PCIe, USB, DMA, and memory subsystems.• Provide deep system-level guidance on Linux kernel internals, device drivers, device tree, memory management, DMA, IOMMU, and user–kernel interfaces (UIO, mmap, libusb).• Drive architecture discussions with customers on SoC bring-up, BSP design, boot flow, secure boot, and performance optimization.• Mentor and review complex customer designs involving Ethernet (TSN, high-speed MACs), PCIe endpoints/RC, USB device & host, and networking stacks (lwIP, Linux).• Collaborate closely with silicon, FPGA, tools, validation, and documentation teams to close customer issues, influence roadmap decisions, and improve product quality.• Act as escalation point for critical customer issues, performing root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, drivers, and applications.• Define best practices and reference architectures for bare-metal vs Linux trade-offs, helping customers set realistic expectations and implementation strategies.• Partner with FAEs, Sales, and Product Marketing to support design wins, technical reviews, customer workshops, and field escalations.• Drive internal knowledge sharing, technical training, and process improvements to scale Applications effectiveness across regions.

Education

• Symbiosis, SITM, Pune

  PGDTM, Telecom and Systems

  1996 — 1998

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Fpga
• Embedded Software
• Asic
• Software Development
• C
• Ethernet
• Semiconductors
• Pcie
• Kernel
• Debugging
• Soc
• Ic
• Usb
• I2c
• Xilinx
• Firmware
• Embedded Linux
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Arm
• Ip
• Embedded Systems
• Rtos
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Spi