# Nikhil Rao

> Software Engineer at AMD Pensando

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilrao2

x86, C, Linux kernel and drivers, RDMA

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ AMD Pensando
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, CA

### Software Engineer @ Intel Corporation
Jan 1998 – Jan 2024
* Intel Labs (https://01.org/blogs/2019/introducing-intel-data-streaming-accelerator)


*  DPDK  - Ethernet PMD optimization, Ethernet/Event Device Interface.

* Linux OS/drivers for Intel MIC (Many Core Integrated) PCIe card (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylbmmQs4W0)

* Embedded OS/driver for PCIe discrete GPU based on x86 cores

* Linux/WinCE drivers (Audio/Video) for Intel media processor (Intel CE 2110)

* Residential Gateway:  802.11 Linux drivers for IXP425 based access point

* VoIP/VoDSL 
-- SLIC/Serial Port/DMA Firmware running on TI DSP
-- Linux driver for VoIP PCI card


## Education
### MS in Electrical/Computer Engg.
Rutgers University

### BE in Electronics Engg.
VJ Technical Institute, Univ of Bombay


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-rao-33213814

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Last updated: 2026-04-11