Trilok Soni

Current

Lead Engineer, Sr at Qualcomm

Past

Lead Engineer at Ingenient Technologies
Technical Leader at Aricent (Earlier Emuzed)
Sr. Software Engineer at Sasken Telecommunications Ltd.

Sr. Software Engineer at Tectona SoftSolutions Ltd.

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Education

Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology

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Trilok Soni’s Summary

- GNU/Linux kernel hacker - specifically on ARM-Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk

- Contributing member of Texas Instruments OMAP processors Linux kernel port
http://linux.omap.com, google: site:linux.omap.com Trilok Soni

- Extensive experience in Embedded Linux kernels bring up on variety of ARM architecture based processors like Texas Instruments OMAP1/2/3 and NeoMagic MiMagic5.

- Experience in device driver writing and porting for devices like keypad, framebuffer, overlays, IrDA, flash, camera, watchdog, I2C, RNG and audio.

- Experience in boot code and Linux kernel porting for custom boards based on TI OMAP2.

- All around systems programming

- Won Nokia N800 http://www.nseries.com/n800 and Nokia N810 http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/500_fortunate_applicants.html based on the open source contributions.

- Early contributor to SkyEye http://www.skyeye.org - Open Source Simulator

- Strong knowledge of ISO 9001:2000 procedures.

Trilok Soni’s Specialties:

Embedded Linux, 2.6.x Linux Kernel Internals, Linux Device Drivers, Bootloader porting, Board Bringup, Scratchbox, Bringing up Linux UI toolkits like GTK+, QT Embedded on ARM boards. OMAP1/2 Linux Kernel.

Trilok Soni’s Experience

Lead Engineer, Sr

Qualcomm

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Linux kernel and device drivers.
Lead Engineer

Ingenient Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)

GNU/Linux Application Architecture, Multimedia Frameworks, Board Support Packages.
Technical Leader

Aricent (Earlier Emuzed)

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2004 — September 2007 (2 years 10 months)

* Kernel development for Linux-based mobile phone products based on TI OMAP family processors.
* Contributed to overall Linux software architecture design and specification
* Participation in porting of 2.6 kernel to various TI OMAP platforms
* Participation in public mailing-list discussions for OMAP linux kernel development
* OMAP Linux kernel porting on OMAP2420/2430 based custom boards.
* Development of IVA (Image Video Accelarator) 1.0 bridge driver on OMAP-Linux.
* Integration of various video codecs on OMAP2420-IVA1.0 - MPEG4, H.263, H.264
Sr. Software Engineer

Sasken Telecommunications Ltd.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year )

* Worked on OMAP1 series of processor for Linux device drivers and test suite development.
* Ported system libraries and utilities: glibc, busybox, strace, inetutils, tinylogin, fileutils, util-linux, ncurses, Linux Test Project, gstreamer, xserver, mplayer to OMAP Linux.
Sr. Software Engineer

Tectona SoftSolutions Ltd.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

August 2000 — October 2003 (3 years 3 months)

* Development of Board Support Package (BSP) for Cirrus Logic CDB89712 Board.
* Control and Data Unit driver and GUI development on FSMLabs Real Time Linux (RTLinux) v3.0
* Development of Windows 98 performance utility, developed VxD (virtual device drivers) using Windows DDK.
* Hot Redundancy Agent for Rockwell Software RSView32 - SCADA.
* Development of License Activation Diskette