diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 4f20986e6b33..e3095bdb4971 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@
   viric = "Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@viric.name>";
   vizanto = "Danny Wilson <danny@prime.vc>";
   vlstill = "Vladimír Štill <xstill@fi.muni.cz>";
+  vmandela = "Venkateswara Rao Mandela <venkat.mandela@gmail.com>";
   vozz = "Oliver Hunt <oliver.huntuk@gmail.com>";
   winden = "Antonio Vargas Gonzalez <windenntw@gmail.com>";
   wizeman = "Ricardo M. Correia <rcorreia@wizy.org>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/grabserial/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/grabserial/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..59b7bdb248e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/grabserial/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, buildPythonPackage, pythonPackages }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+
+  name = "grabserial-20141120";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = https://github.com/tbird20d/grabserial.git;
+    rev  = "8b9c98ea35d382bac2aafc7a8a9c02440369a792";
+    sha256 = "ff27f5e5ab38c8450a4a0291e943e6c5a265e56d29d6a1caa849ae3238d71679";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pythonPackages.pyserial ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Python based serial dump and timing program";
+    homepage = https://github.com/tbird20d/grabserial;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ vmandela ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 19b29ee87bd3..2d59b88c5772 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5002,6 +5002,8 @@ let
 
   winpdb = callPackage ../development/tools/winpdb { };
 
+  grabserial = callPackage ../development/tools/grabserial { };
+
 
   ### DEVELOPMENT / LIBRARIES