Sumit Garg

About Sumit Garg

Experienced Linux based systems developer with deep dive into kernel security, trusted execution environments and embedded toolchain. Experienced trainer for OpenEmbedded/Yocto, OP-TEE and Trusted Firmware - A training courses.Involved as a product security architect for an e-paper tablet device targeting enterprise and retail customers.Worked on Linux Board Support Packages (BSPs) for various Arm based SoCs coming from different silicon vendors: Qualcomm, NXP, TI, Renesas, Socionext etc.Involvement in interesting research work regarding Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) accelerators to cater to future security use-cases like Confidential AI, secure electronic voting, protecting user\'s data privacy etc.Presented talks at OSS India 2025, OSS NA 2025, EOSS 2024, Linux Plumbers 2022, Arm dev summit 2021 and several Linaro Connect events.Open source contributions-Linux kernel- Reviewer for TEE kernel subsystem- Maintainer for TEE based Trusted Keys- Author of TEE bus driver framework- Maintainer for OP-TEE based HWRNG driver- Contributions to kernel debugger (kgdb)- pseudo NMI debugging features for arm64 eg. hard-lockup detector.edk2/UEFI- Qualcomm subsystem maintainer- Author of OP-TEE driver- Author of OP-TEE based RNG driver.U-Boot- OF_UPSTREAM DT maintainer- Reviewer for Qualcomm subsystem, maintaining multiple SoCs support.OpenEmbedded- meta-arm-toolchain layer maintainer- Author of ARM GCC 9.2 toolchain support in meta-linaro and meta-arm layers.OP-TEE- Enabled Rust no-std language support for Trusted Applications- Maintainer of ftrace debugging framework- Platform maintainer (Qualcomm, Socionext: DeveloperBox, Renesas: RZ/N1).Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A)- Maintainer of I/O firmware encryption framework- Platform maintainer (Qualcomm, SynQuacer SoC).Linux test project (LTP)- Notable contributor to LTP 20••••17 release (https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/releases/tag/20••••17).GitHub:https://github.com/b49020Overall contribution via mailing lists:https://patches.linaro.org/team/no-team/?submitter=9254 & state=* & page=1Credly

Experience

1. Senior Staff Engineer

   Qualcomm

   Mar 2025 — Present · Ambala, IN

   Role: Open source boot and security architect- Bringing open source boot firmware chain alive on Qcom platforms across different BUs- Contributing and taking on Qcom platform maintainer role for various firmware projects like- Trusted-Firmware-A - OP-TEE - edk2 - U-Boot- Playing a key role in open source security solutions in the Linux kernel via TEE (OP-TEE/QTEE) based services- End-to-end secure DRM media pipeline - Secure key/crypto operations (TEE based PKCS#11 tokens).

Education

• PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh

  Bachelor's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2011 — 2015

• MDAV Public School Ambala, Haryana

  High School

  1997 — 2011

Skills

• Arm Trustzone
• Windows
• C
• Raspberry Pi
• Pcie
• Python
• 4g/Lte Technology
• Secure Os
• Arm Architecture
• Se Linux