Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer | Silicon Bring-Up | RTOS | Validation Automation
7+ years building firmware for mission-critical systems - from first-silicon bring-up on ISRO satellite OBCs to production FreeRTOS firmwares..
I write bare-metal C that runs in orbit, RTOS firmware that ships to engineers worldwide, and Python automation frameworks that scale across hundreds of silicon variants.
| Platform | Contribution |
|---|---|
| ISRO INS-2TD Satellite | Full-cycle OBC board bring-up - power sequencing, JTAG boundary scan, TTC firmware. ISRO Recognition Award. |
| Pixxel ANAND LEO Satellite | Bare-metal reaction wheel control drivers under real-time constraints |
| BMW S68T0 ECU (Bosch) | Safety-critical thermal management firmware, ISO 26262, linker optimisation |
| Zynq UltraScale+ ZU7EV | FPGA bring-up, FSBL, peripheral integration - Vivado/Vitis |
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | Embedded C β’ Python β’ C++ β’ ARM Thumb-2 Assembly |
| Architectures | ARM Cortex-M (M0+/M4/M7) β’ ARM Cortex-A53 β’ FPGA (Zynq) |
| RTOS | FreeRTOS (production) β’ Zephyr (Device Tree) β’ Bare Metal |
| Interfaces | UART β’ SPI β’ I2C β’ PCIe β’ USB β’ DMA β’ BLE (RN4871) |
| Debug | JTAG/SWD β’ pyOCD/CMSIS-DAP β’ Oscilloscope β’ Logic Analyser |
| Tools | MPLAB X β’ Keil β’ IAR β’ GCC β’ Jenkins CI/CD β’ Vivado |
| Security | Root of Trust β’ Secure Boot β’ OTP β’ TF-M concepts |
| Repo | What it is |
|---|---|
| nano-sched | Priority-based preemptive scheduler for ARM Cortex-M4 - PendSV context switch in assembly, TCB management |
| pydap-link | pyOCD/CMSIS-DAP v2 silicon enablement tool - automated Flash validation across ARM SoC platforms |
| samc21-jtag-tap | Software JTAG TAP controller on ARM Cortex-M0+ - reads IDCODE from target silicon via GPIO bit-bang |
| edge-ml-nsnet2-cortex-m7 | NSNET2 speech model (ONNX) β ARM Cortex-M7 - quantised weights, TCM/SRAM deployment |
AI Hardware Wars: What Embedded Engineers Need to Know - Microchip Software Summit 2026 Examining NVIDIA, Google TPU, Graphcore IPU, and Cerebras WSE through the lens of the AI+HW 2035 paper (LeCun, Young et al.)
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