Embedded firmware engineer — 3+ years of full-time professional experience in C/C++/Python across bare-metal, RTOS, and Embedded Linux. Security-critical crypto firmware, industrial IoT/automation system design and performance, and edge AI platforms built from scratch as a founding engineer. I take features from hardware bring-up through drivers, protocols, and compliance to ship.

MS EE @ NYU Tandon (May 2026) · Open to embedded / firmware roles

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• Languages — Embedded C, C++, Python, Shell, Structured Text (PLC), Assembly, TypeScript, MATLAB, LaTeX
• Computer Architecture: ARM Cortex, RISC-V, FreeRTOS, Zephyr RTOS
• Controllers boards — STM32, ESP32, ESP8266, ATmega32, NanoPi Duo 2, Raspberry Pi, Xilinx Genesys 2 FPGA, Artix-7 FPGA, Jetson Orin Nano
• OS & kernel — RTOS, Embedded Linux, Yocto, bootloaders, secure boot, encryption, kernel modules, POSIX, DMA, multithreading, multiprocessing
• Hardware Protocols — EtherCAT, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, MQTT, BLE, WiFi, GSM, TCP, ADC/DAC, IPC, Zigbee, Timers
• Tools — TwinCAT, EtherCAT CTT, KPA Studio, Cadence Virtuoso, Proteus, JTAG debuggers, Digital Storage Oscilloscope, Docker, CMake, Waveform Generator, Git Version Control, Jira, Agile, Jenkins, AWS, UML
• Testing — GCC, GDB, Static test (Github Actions: Lint, Clang-Tidy), Dynamic test (Qemu, CPU/Memory tracking), Trace/Logic/Spectrum/Network Analyzers, Unit tests (Unity/Google), Integration/Functional GUI automated tests, White/Black box test, System/End-to-End tests
• ML — Google Collab (GPU, TPU), PyTorch, Pandas, HPC, CNN, KNN, U-Net, ViT, Decision Tree Classifier, Class-imbalance handling, real + synthetic training data, image and metadata model ensembling, partial-AUC evaluation, fine-tuning, bounding-box prediction, Dice evaluation
• Domains — embedded systems, signal processing, hardware bring-up and testing, conformance (protocol / safety / EMC / RoHS), automation, IoT, control systems
• Other — MQTT, HTTP, SSH, IPv6, mDNS, Socket programming, OTA, MMIO, Device Driver, Power Management, Timing Analysis, Root Cause Analysis

• Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge 2021 · Avrio Energy — $30,000 prize, national. Single-sensor appliance detector at 90% accuracy on a new FPGA stack; demoed to India's Minister of Electronics & IT.
• (Video, Code — Linux Edge ML Energy Analytics)
• ETHDenver Hackathon 2024 · Faucet Labs — $25,000 grant for a Starknet signing PoC built on hardware in 3 days.
• (Code — Starknet_Fund Transfer_App and Starknet_Fund Transfer_Firmware)
• Carbon Zero Challenge 2022 · Avrio Energy — $6,000 grant from IIT Madras for reducing carbon footprint with the energy saving solution.
• NYU Merit Scholarship 2024 · NYU — sponsored by NYU.
• SWE Conference Scholarship 2025 · NYU — sponsored by NYU.
• Won Science Quiz 2019 · Banasthali University.

• Hypertherm Associates · Project Intern, NH, USA · May – Aug 2025

  • Code — RTOS EtherCAT Performance Analysis
  • Task — Test how the plasma cutter's 32-bit MCU talks to the CNC controls over EtherCAT. Measured latency on the critical process data, found where hardware and software were dropping or delaying messages, and ran EtherCAT conformance certification with the official CTT tool and KPA Studio statistics, recreating real industry scenarios.
  • Skills — Embedded C (Hilscher), Structured Text PLC, TwinCAT, EtherCAT, CTT, KPA Studio, latency measurement, automated regression testing

• NYU Tandon School of Engineering · Graduate Course Assistant, NY, USA · Sep 2024 – May 2025

  • Task — Ran the lab sections for 100+ students in ECE-UY 3114/3124 Fundamentals of Electronics under Prof. Michael Knox: diode characteristics (Zener, LED, photodiode), BJT and MOSFET transistors, passive R/L/C behaviour, and op-amp logic circuits, with PSpice simulation alongside the bench work. Worked with faculty to design the report-based and in-lab assignments and the grading practice behind them, so students debugged their own circuits on the instruments instead of following a recipe.
  • Skills — Analog and digital circuit analysis, diodes (Zener/LED/photodiode), BJT/MOSFET, passive components, op-amps, PSpice simulation, oscilloscope, multimeter, function generator, lab instruction, assessment design

• Faucet Labs · Embedded Engineer, India · Dec 2023 – Aug 2024

  • Code — Open Source Inheritance session, Linux Cryptographic Session, LVGL Bitmap Font, Bittensor, Ethereum, Bitcoin Coins Transaction signing.
  • Task — Build a way to hand a hardware wallet over to an heir without the seed ever leaving the device — a symmetric-key inheritance transaction architecture in STM32 open-source bare-metal firmware. Added Starknet and Bittensor transaction signing, and led the hardware team through client issues, bug fixes, and feature integration.
  • Skills — Embedded C (STM32), Python, ECDH, secp256k1, BIP32/BIP39 derivation, ECDSA, AES-256, point compression, client-server security design, TypeScript, Python, symmetric-key cryptography, transaction signing, code review, GSoC mentoring

• Kimbal Tech · Embedded Engineer, India · Nov – Dec 2023

  • Code — SPM-UnitTest-Simulator
  • Task — Write a simulator that runs a three-phase smart meter through 12 validation phases as a state machine, with time-locked pass/fail output, so bad units get caught on the line instead of in the field. Defect rate fell 20%.
  • Skills — C++, multi-stage state machines, time-locked validation, unit testing, automated diagnostic feedback

• Avrio Energy · Founding Embedded Engineer, India · (Intern) Oct 2020 – Feb 2021 & (Full-time) Oct 2021 – Oct 2023

  • Task — Founding engineer on an AI energy meter, sensor to cloud. Brought up the board, wrote the drivers, built the Yocto/ARM Linux image, and moved binary packets over SPI, UART and Ethernet into an MQTT pipeline for remote monitoring and OTA updates — 1% voltage and current accuracy at 1s latency, with a static config flow reworked into a parametrized calibration file. Also traced EMC and safety compliance failures back to high-frequency noise in the PCB and schematic, automated sensor-driven HVAC switching (10% warehouse energy saved), and set up procurement, manufacturing and QC (throughput doubled, 100% installation success).
  • Skills — Embedded C (ESP32, Xilinx), C++, Python, Yocto, ARM Linux, SPI, UART, Ethernet, MQTT, OTA updates, edge ML micro-services, EMC & safety compliance RCA, Grafana, documentation, procurement, QC, Embedded Linux, VEGA SoC (RISC-V), Xilinx FPGA, secure boot, SPI/I2C drivers, multithreading, thread-safe producer-consumer queues, state machines, DSP, ADE register calibration, MQTT/Mosquitto, SSL certificates, TinyDB, InfluxDB, Grafana, shell scripting, Linux kernel module, character device, circular buffer, mutex/semaphore synchronization, blocking I/O, Makefile build flow, insmod/rmmod, dmesg, multithreaded producer-consumer validation.

• Accenture · Applications Engineer, India · Feb – Oct 2021

  • Task — Automate the test workflows for a cloud infrastructure team. Built C# and SharePoint automations in Power Automate to exercise load-balancing server failure cases, and a Power BI dashboard that turned raw server performance data into a KPI visualizer the team could read at a glance.
  • Skills — C#, SharePoint, Power Automate, Power BI, workflow automation, load-balancing failure testing, KPI dashboards

• Gaia Smart Cities · Project Intern, India · Jan – Oct 2020

  • Code — RTOS_Automation_Framework
  • Task — Commission IoT gateways in bulk instead of one technician per unit. STM32 firmware plus a PyQt desktop tool that drives the modem over AT commands, checks signal health, parses logs, and batches the tests. Deployed across 300+ airports; end-to-end test time fell 5×.
  • Skills — Embedded C++, RTOS, STM32, Python, PyQt5, Qt, GSM, AT commands, USB-serial, log parsing, batch test automation

• IIT Kanpur · Research Intern, India · May – Jul 2019

  • Whitepaper — UAV Communication Design Aspects
  • Task — Research based project focusing on the component requirements, comparison and integration of a wireless HD video and data link communication system for a unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which includes surveillance camera, antenna and transceiver for airborne and ground station for 20 km range, involvement in the procurement for the same.
  • Skills — Python, Raspberry Pi, Pi camera, UAV, PIC controller, MIPI, Transceiver

• MS Electrical Engineering, NYU Tandon — Sept 2024 – May 2026

  • Signal Processing:

    • Neural and Physiological Signal Processing (Matlab for Deconvolution, State Estimation & Hormone Data Statistical Analysis) (Project: Hormone Behavior Analysis)
    • Image and Video Signal Processing (Python for Image & Video Machine Learning Modelling) (Project: Prostate MRI Segmentation )
    • Masters Advanced Course (Project : Skin Cancer Image Analysis)
    • Interactive Medical Robotics (Matlab/Simulink for Tele-robotics Design and Optimization Analysis)
    • Digital Signal Processing (Python/Matlab for Speech and Audio Filtering and Windowing Analysis)
    • Linear Systems (Matlab for State-Space Analysis)

  • Embedded Systems:

    • Embedded System (Project: RTOS Motion Processing, ASM Programming, STMF429 with PlatformIO in Mbed Rtos)

  • Statistical Analysis:

    • Stock Investment Risk (Project: AMZN Stock Risk Statistiscal Analysis, R Studio for Risk analysis)
    • Model Risk Management (Project: Crypto Regulatory Risk Model Statistical Analysis, R Studio for Policy indicator effects analysis on a Risk Model)

  • Analog Electronics:

    • Communication Circuits and Components (Project: Wide-band Transimpedance Amplifier, Cadence Virtuoso for Transistor-level Circuit design and analysis)

• B.Tech Electronics & Communication, Banasthali University — July 2016 – July 2020

  • Microcontrollers, Digital Electronics, Computer Architecture, Communication Networks, Probability
  • Projects
    • Glove Test-to-Speech (Skills: Embedded C, Sensor Fusion, Capacitive Sensor, IMU)
    • LCD Driver (Skills: Embedded C, Device Driver, Bit Manipulation, LCD)
    • DC Motor PWM Angle Controller GUI Feedback (Skills: Embedded C, DC Motor, Python, QT GUI)
    • IR Sensor Threshold with LCD Feedback (Skills: Embedded C, IR sensor, LCD)
    • Two Button Short/Long Interrupts (Skills: Interrupt, Buttons)

• Singing, swimming, and martial arts — the things that keep the desk hours honest. I volunteer with Heartfulness (Mindfulness & Meditation practices) and am a member of WomenAdoreTech. Off-hours reading is mostly science, psychology, and history — good places to steal first-principles ideas from.