# Vikrant Malhotra

> Software Development Staff Engineer at Dell SonicWALL

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

TECHNICAL SKILLS
1. Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, Assembly language (ARM, x86, MIPS)
2. Protocols: SAS, SATA, PCI-Express
3. Version Control Systems: SVN, Mercurial, Perforce
4. IDEs and Editors: Eclipse, SlickEdit, Microsoft Visual Studio, Source Insight
5. Operating Systems and RTOS: Linux, Windows, VxWorks
6. Debugging Tools: Cscope, SAS/Logic Analyzers, ARM RealView ICE/DSTREAM debuggers, GDB

## Work Experience
### Software Development Staff Engineer @ SonicWall Inc.
Jan 2015 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Sr. Firmware Engineer @ HGST, a Western Digital company
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA
Involved in hard disk drives firmware re-architecture, infrastructure change, validation and tool development related activities.

### Systems Engineer-IC Validation @ LSI Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Colorado Springs, Colorado Area
•	Worked on next generation SAS controller test-firmware development: specific tasks included developing test firmware, writing ARM Cortex-A15 processor startup boot-loader code, writing scatter files.

•	Implemented NAND Flash, SPI Flash and memory testing libraries in C and C++ and integrated them with the in-house validation test suite for SAS controllers and expanders.

•	Validated SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) controller and SAS expander on SoC and FPGA platforms.

•	Designed and setup stress test topologies consisting of controllers, expanders, and SAS, SATA and PCIe drives.

•	Resolved bugs and added features in the existing test firmware and validation test suits for controllers and expanders.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Boulder Innovation Group, Inc
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Boulder, Colorado
Worked on platform enhancement for the products-Flashpoint and 3D Creator:

• Customized and ported Linux on an AMD-Geode powered PC-104 board, previously running DOS.

• Transformed DOS based application software to run on Linux and wrote device drivers.

### Operations Engineer @ NTPC
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | India
Worked as an operations engineer in one of the five 210 MW units of the Unchahar thermal power plant.

### Production Engineer @ Flex Industries Limited
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | India
Worked as a production engineer in the manufacturing unit of flexible packaging polyester and poly-propylene films.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

### Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering
Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vikrantmalhotra

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Last updated: 2026-04-12