# Kiran Ravulakollu

> Engineering Lead - GPU, NPU, XR & Android

Profile: https://flows.cv/kiranravulakollu

15+ years of combined experience in design and development of large scale GPU, NPU and XR systems.
8+ years of engineering management/team lead experience
Excel in partnering with product, program and client engagement managers to prioritize, estimate and deliver a competitive feature set for the product at hand

Skills:
GPU, NPU (OpenVino), XR
Performance Tuning, HW Debug
C/C++, Tools - Logcat, Render Doc
Matlab, HLSL
C#, Python (Working Knowledge)
Windows & Android
Coaching 
Resource Management & Risk Mitigation

## Work Experience
### XR Manager @ Unity
Jan 2024
Responsible for the development and release of Unity based APIs/SDK for Android XR
Enabling developers to build AR and VR applications in close partnership with Google
I also lead the XR Input team which is responsible for multi modality inputs like hands and
eye gaze
Impact:
Instrumental in the launching of immersive experiences on Android XR
Empowering 3rd party customers to easily port their existing apps to Android XR
Engaging with Unity developer community and bringing their innovation to the market

### Sr Manager, AI SW @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Lead the release of a SW solution that scheduled ML inference workload
on the underlying platform HW accelerators
Impact:
Spearheaded the 0->1 release of a SW solution that load balanced ML workloads across
various HW accelerators
Enhanced the user experience of image and video up-scaling products from two ISV vendors
by using the above SW solution to balance power and performance requirements

### Sr Staff TLM - Gaming Performance @ Qualcomm
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Diego, California, United States
Mobile game optimizations on the Snapdragon platform
Impact:
Improved the performance of highly popular Unreal Engine and Unity based AAA titles
My work has had an impact on the gaming experience of millions of users across the world
Developed an objective template to compare CPU and GPU performance across different
chipsets. This approach was later formalized and used to analyze the performance of
several dozens of games

### GPU Modeling Engineer, TLM @ Samsung SARC | ACL
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Developed a bit accurate GPU functional simulator - Binning Unit and the Compute Shader Constructor
Impact:
Achieved the tape out of two generations of GPU HW in an organization newly entering the
GPU IP business
Implemented optimization techniques to reduce the workload on downstream GPU blocks,
resulting in higher throughput
Developed an in-house IP that was competitive with the best mobile GPU solutions in the market

### Senior Software Engineer @ AMD
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Dx11 Driver and HLSL Shader Performance Tuning
Impact:
Helped ~10 titles to improve their performance on AMD HW while retaining graphics fidelity
Automated certain standard perf tuning techniques that resulted in near zero human intervention and 4x improvement in the identification of optimal settings

### Graphics Software Engineer @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2009 – Jan 2016
2D (Display), 3D and Media Driver Improvements - Bug Fixing, New Feature Improvements,
Debugging HW Hangs
Impact:
Directly contributed to the successful release of seven generations of Intel's mainstream
GPU and Media drivers and two generations of low power GPU and Media drivers
Fixed launch gating issues for some of the biggest panel vendors and OEMs in the world
Enhanced the user experience of every user every time certain applications were launched,
by reducing latency


## Education
### Master's degree
New Mexico State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kiran-ravulakollu-a1b3585
- Email: mailto:kravulakollu@gmail.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-18