SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Padmakar Kalghatgi is a software engineer based out of Bangalore, India working in SSIR, Semiconductor division of Samsung Electronics. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering. In his stint at Samsung, he has primiarily worked on developing validation tools for storage device like eMMC, NVMe, SAS etc. His primary interest being NVMe, NVMe-MI. Due to the interest in NVMe, he recently started working on the NVMe emulation of QEMU and contributed to various features of NVMe 1.4 specification. He looks forward to contributing more to the emulation of NVMe in QEMU. In his previous stint, he has worked in developing printer drivers.