Parag Patel

                        1548 Hilton Court
                        San Jose, CA 95130
                        1.408.370.7976
                        Email: parag@codegen.com 

Programming and systems experience:
  * Drivers: 802.11, Ethernet, crypto, USB, PCI, flash, LCDs, cameras, others 
  * Processors: amd64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Sparc, Alpha, m68k, x86
  * OSes: UNIX (BSD, Linux, Mac OS-X, Solaris), VxWorks, RTOSes, custom
  * Languages: assembler, C, Modula-3, Java, Forth, FORTRAN, C++, others 
  * TCP/IP (clients and servers), firewalls, X Windows, UNIX scripting 
  * software developed: OSes, compilers, debuggers, profilers, GUI tools, others


Nov. 1991 to present	CodeGen, Inc. (San Francisco, Pleasanton, San Jose, CA)
  * co-founder of CodeGen, Inc. 
  * SmartFirmware (C implementation of IEEE-1275 Open Firmware)
      + ported to a variety of hardware incl. amd64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC
      + portable drivers in Fcode and C for gigabit ethernet, ide, others
  * SmartAlloc, a fast and efficient memory-allocator 
  * retargetable ANSI C compiler (also generates Forth/Fcode)
  * independent consultant and contractor


Oct. 2005 to Jan. 2008	Broadcom, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
  * ARM, Nucleus RTOS, Linux, cell-phones; system bring-up, debugging
  * LCD, camera, I2C, SDIO/MMC, flash drivers, boot-loaders

Jan. 2004 to Aug. 2005	Philips Semiconductors, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
  * audio-server consumer electronics product platform developmentŠLinux,
    ARM, C-Executive RTOS, 802.11b/g, ethernet, LCD, disk, CD

Jan. 2001 to Feb. 2002	SonicWALL (Sunnyvale, CA)
  * VxWorks BSP port to custom Samsung S3C4510B (NetARM) incl. drivers
  * port custom firewall software to NetARM, x86 PCs, evaluation boards
  * drivers for 802.11 wireless, gigabit and 10/100 chips, crypto chips

June 1997 to Nov. 2000	Cogent, Excess Bandwidth, Peritek, Redback, and Sun
  * SmartFirmware porting, firmware development, OS support and porting,
    many drivers, hardware turn-on, BSP support, and consulting 

July 1996 to April 1997	Peritek (Oakland, CA)
  * build SmartFirrmware for TI-34020 VME (developed under VxWorks) and
    custom MIPS-4400 graphics card card; port OpenBSD to MIPS card 

July to Dec. 1995		Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
  * help improve code-generation of MrC PowerPC compiler 
  * test to improve performance of portions of Copland OS 

Nov.  to Dec. 1995		Cemax-Icon (Fremont, CA)
  * port large C++ libraries from Unix/Windows to Mac for medical data servers 

May 1995			The Learning Company (Fremont, CA)
  * consultation regarding providing various Internet services 

May 1995			Peritek (Oakland, CA)
  * port SGI GL library code to TI-34020 compiler Š merge into custom X server 

April to June 1995		ProSoft (Pleasanton, CA)
  * develop AudioCD music player for Macintosh Drive7 product 

May to Nov. 1993, Feb. to Apr. 1994, Feb. to June 1995	Tandem (Cupertino, CA)
  * port internal C++ email client from Windows to the Mac; other misc. work 


1988 to 1991		Hewlett-Packard SESD  (Palo Alto & Sunnyvale, CA)
  * HP C++ Softbench software engineering system product 
        developed C++ source code scanner and query mechanism 
        consultant for C++ debugger and static analysis tools 
  * HP Codelibs C++ code re-use library product 
        Presented a paper on Codelibs at TOOLS PACIFIC '90 (Sydney, Australia) 
  * HP C++ language product 
        Ported, maintained, and supported AT&T C++ translator 

1983 to 1988		Hewlett-Packard LSD, LDO/EDD (Colo. Spgs., CO)
  * EE-CAD software for PC board layout and back annotation of schematics 
  * Unix system administration tools for managing ~50 systems 
  * co-developer for intelligent automated "hands off" backup utility 

Formal Education:
  * 1980-1983 University of Colorado at Colo. Spgs. 
  * B.S. in Computer Science. Graduated first in class.