Swaraj Hota

Experience

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  Google Summer of Code

  May 2019 - Aug 2019

  Student Developer @ FFmpeg

  Mentor: Carl Eugen Hoyos• Studied the High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) specification and added its support in FFmpeg’s libavformat library• Utilized fuzz testing, memory leak detection, and HEIF conformance tests• Patched support for 2 Video Formats (IFV and KUX) in FFmpeg as qualification tasks, by reverse engineering binary media files• Tools: C, Git, zzuf fuzzer, Valgrind, Unix Command-line Tools, Hex Editors

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  Google Summer of Code

  May 2020 - Aug 2020

  Student Developer @ Apertus Association

  Mentor: Herbert Poetzl• Developed a Linux Kernel Driver to program/debug Lattice MachXO2 FPGAs through a specific I2C-JTAG bridge in AXIOM Beta Open Source Camera, allowing more flexible and easy debugging• Built and exposed a User API from the driver to interface any JTAG controller software (like OpenOCD)• Produced a patch for OpenOCD to work with the driver, making SVF replays possible• Tools: C, Linux Kernel, Device-tree, Embedded Linux, OpenOCD, Lattice Diamond Tools, PIC MCU Programming Show less

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  Apertus Association

  Dec 2020 - May 2021

  Embedded R&D Intern

  Mentor: Herbert Poetzl• Developed gateware and scripts for a novel resource-friendly approach to FPGA register sets using Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration to access/modify registers, by in-depth analysis of bitstream format and CLB structure, for a Xilinx Zynq device used in AXIOM Beta Open Source Camera• Tools: Python, VHDL, Tcl, Xilinx Vivado, Project X-Ray, Embedded Linux, MicroZed Development Board

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  NVIDIA

  Jun 2022 - now

  System Software Engineer

  GPU Virtualization