Qualcomm · Senior Engineer
September 2025 – Present · Performance engineering
Working on Qualcomm Snapdragon PC chipsets for Windows as part of the performance engineering team.
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Technical portfolio
Systems engineer focused on Windows kernel development, KMDF/WDF, WDM, and Windows internals.
Technical profile and selected work.
!analyze -v ↵
STOP CODE: TECHNICAL_PORTFOLIOPROCESS: SYSTEM_ENGINEER.EXE
kd> .about
About
I build and study low-level software. My work includes Windows kernel-mode development and debugging with WinDbg. I am interested in operating-system internals, scheduling, driver design, and reliable kernel-to-user-mode interfaces.
kd> !process
Professional experience
Trellix · Software Development Engineer 2
May 2025 – September 2025
Contributed to the Drive Encryption team and played a key role in the Trellix Drive Encryption 8.0 release.
Trellix · Software Development Engineer
August 2022 – May 2025
Developed and maintained Windows drive-encryption software, including MSI packaging, C++ components using Boost and libcurl, HLK setup, and driver signing. Improved Windows logon-to-preboot password synchronization to meet Windows 11 25H2 network-provider DLL signature requirements.
Trellix · Graduate Technical Intern
February 2022 – August 2022
Completed a graduate technical internship, establishing the foundation for a transition into full-time Windows software development.
kd> !analyze -v
Kernel-driver development and a small supporting networking exercise.
MODULE 01
IMAGE_NAME: THREAD_CTL.SYS
Thread control driver
A WDM driver and user-mode controller for safely adjusting a chosen thread’s scheduling priority through a defined IOCTL interface.
MODULE 02
IMAGE_NAME: HTTP_SERVER.EXE
Simple HTTP server and client
A small C++ exercise using WinSock to establish TCP connections, handle basic HTTP GET requests, and serve static content.
kd> .blogs
Technical writing
Learn ARM64 assembly on x86-64 Windows 10/11 ↗
A practical setup note covering WSL, cross-compilation, QEMU, and GDB for learning and debugging ARM64 assembly from a Windows machine.
Windows Internals: Thread Management, Part 2 ↗
A continuation of the thread-management series, focused on Windows scheduling concepts and execution details.
Windows Internals: Thread Management, Part 1 ↗
An introduction to threads and the operating-system concepts used to manage their execution.
Windows Internals: Process Management, Part 2 ↗
A technical follow-up on the structures and lifecycle considerations behind Windows processes.
Windows Internals: Process Management, Part 1 ↗
An overview of Windows process-management fundamentals for systems-programming learners.
kd> lm
Technical skills
01Windows kernel development
C/C++, Windows internals, kernel objects, scheduling, and driver interfaces
02Driver frameworks
KMDF, WDF, WDM, IOCTL communication, and user-mode / kernel-mode interaction
03Debugging and tooling
WinDbg, WDK, Visual Studio, Git, and virtual machines
kd> .contact
Contact
For technical discussions and updates, connect on X.
@OSDev_ on X ↗ osdev.in.contact@gmail.com ↗