Ashok has over 20 years of experience in system software from proprietary UNIX and Linux. Ashok was one of the early developers involved in bringing CPU hotplug to Linux. Ashok was also the lead developer bringing Intel VT-D a.k.a IOMMU to Linux. Ashok also worked on Machine Check Architecture for Intel processors and drove features like Local Machine Check in products. Ashok is currently oversees PCIe, IOMMU efforts from Intel.