Vaishnavi Pothugunta
Device Driver Engineer at Intel Corporation
- Role
- Device Driver Engineer at Intel
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vaishnavi Pothugunta
Hey :) I am M.Tech CS Graduate from Vellore Institute of Technology. Device Driver…
Experience
Device Driver Engineer
Oct 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Worked on Linux kernel drivers - Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) across 5+ platforms, developingaccelerating workloads for compression, decompression, and cryptography in production systems.• Delivered 6+ customer-focused requirements, enabling custom performance use cases and addressing de-ployment blockers for enterprise clients; Contributed to multiple Engineering drops across internal driverreleases.• Contributed to develop dictionary-based compression; Integrated and validated cryptographic flows, im-proving data throughput and reducing latency by up to 20% on QAT-enabled pipelines.• Automated Power-On (PO) validation through custom scripts, reducing manual effort by 30% and increasingtest consistency across release cycles.• Maintained daily Docker builds pipeline with the latest firmware and driver; developed added support fornew version of QAT device in unified validation environments.• Co-enabled PCQG integration to catch performance regressions from new commits, improving early detectionof degradations, and reducing validation turnaround by 25%.• Drove debugging efficiency by building register dump tools, resolved 10+ critical kernel-space issues, andproposed innovations on QAT (e.g, QAT-secured model serving) through Intel’s Ideas Portal.
Education
Himaja Educational Institutions
10th - Techno
2015 — 2016
Vellore Institute of Technology
Integrated M.Tech
2018 — 2023
Narayana Junior College - India
Intermediate
2016 — 2018
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