# Suryakant Devangan

> Principal Embedded SW Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/suryakant

Senior Staff Engineer / Embedded Software Developer
Embedded Systems ~ Defect Resolution ~ Enhancements ~ Solution Design 

Profile of Qualifications
- Consummate strengths in software design and development, feature enhancement, system  
  maintenance, debugging, and testing on open source operating systems for embedded platform.
- Focus on optimizing software performance, reliability, scalability, usability, security and compliance. 
- Proficiency in designing/implementing device drivers, protocols, features and system software ranging 
  from kernel modules to user space libraries.
- Strong ability to liaise between business and technical teams to facilitate cost-effective and timely   
  development and implementation of high-impact software solutions.  
- System side development experience in various aspects such as device driver, protocol 
  implementation and other system level programming.
- Expert with embedded systems at application, system and device driver levels.
- Substantial experience in system design verification using in-circuit emulators, JTAG, spectrum 
  analyzers and oscilloscopes.

## Work Experience
### Principal SW Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Clara County, California, United States

### Principal SW Systems Engineer @ Aerohive Networks
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Milpitas
•	Debug and Resolve issues in 802.11ax Wireless Driver and Protocol Stack running on PCI/SOC 
        based Access points.
•	Design and Develop 802.11ax features for Cloud controlled Wireless Access Points.
•	Innovate and design features based on advanced hardware capabilities in 802.11ax Wireless Access
        points for efficient operation and better user experience.

### Sr. Tech Lead @ Relay2 Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Milpitas CA
•	Design/Develop Wlan features for Cloud based Access Point powered by Cavium processor running
                openwrt and Atheros 11ac chip.
	•	Debug and Resolve issues in 802.11ac Wireless Driver/Firmware  and Protocol Stack.
	•	Debug and Resolve issues in application layer required for Cloud support.

### Lead Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Jose
•	Maintain 802.11ac WLAN solution running on Linux/Click-OS featuring 160Mz and MUMIMO.
	•	Implemented WGB feature for Enterprise Wlan solution.

### Senior MTS Engineer @ Quantenna Communications
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Fremont
• Lead role in RF chip bring-up, added support in BB/RF driver, closely partner with Systems/Hardware/RF 
   team in debugging hardware issues while RDK bring-up. Worked with Systems team on doing 
   calibration and verifying the coefficients. Implemented HAL for RF driver to support multiple RF’s.
• Design/Implement to support higher flash size. Added support on MTD/U-Boot/Bootcfg/Spi-Flash 
   drivers.
• Designed/Implemented DBS feature on dual band RF (5ghz/2.4ghz).
• Debug and resolve issues to achieve WFA certification for 4x4 802.11ac AP.
• Maintain 802.11ac WLAN solution running on Linux and powered by Arc processor; resourcefully 
   increased support in uboot to store more calibration data in flash. Analyze/Resolve IOT issues on 
   802.11ac solution.

### Senior Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara
• Ported Xsigo driver to new ESX releases and integrated with IB-stack requiring exceptional testing 
   expertise to ensure flawless virtual interface creation and operation.
• Maintained and enhanced host driver by adding functionality and resolving driver/build system issues 
   across multiple operating systems.
• Implemented SAN/iSCSI boot in Linux and OVM operating systems.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Qualcomm Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | San Deigo
• Implemented wrapper functionality for external, low-power device (I2C bus) capable of short range 
   wireless data transfer.
• Designed, developed and tested FTM driver for WLAN interface and completed several integrations.
• Fixed issues related to WLAN 802.11n solution and achieved functionality on BREW (Binary Runtime 
   Environment for Wireless) platform spanning multiple hardware targets.

### Software Engineer @ Atheros
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Bengaluru Area, India
• Designed, developed and tested Atheros (Athcfg) configuration system for WLAN interface on 
   FreeBSD and Linux platforms.
• Ported open source Oprofiler on MIPS platform and profiled Atheros wireless driver to optimize CPU
   usage and increase throughput.

### Software Engineer @ Conexant Systems
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Noida Area, India
• Played an active role in enhancing features for Cohiba and Zavelin wireless USB and PCMCIA cards, 
   and successfully rectified issues in wireless driver and wireless security.
• Ported USB driver from Linux 2.4 to Linux 2.6.
• Troubleshot and eliminated issues in development phase for IP Termination project featuring
   wireless capabilities for device not having TCP/IP stack.


## Education
### B.E. in Computer Science
Institute of Technology (GGDU)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/suryakant-devangan-00b84314

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Last updated: 2026-04-12