Akhil Panayamparambil
Lead Firmware Engineer at Allegion India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhil Panayamparambil is a Lead Firmware Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering end-to-end embedded solutions across security, IoT and industrial domains. He has progressed from firmware engineer roles to technical leadership at Allegion India, driving firmware architecture and product delivery for global security brands. Skilled in low-level serial communication, MCU support and OS porting, Akhil has contributed to the widely used Arm Mbed OS by improving SAMD21/SAMR21 serial drivers with async operations and hardware flow control. His background spans product-focused R&D, consultancy for silicon vendors, and module leadership in digital transformation programs, giving him both deep technical depth and practical delivery discipline. He holds a B.Tech in Electronics and a postgraduate diploma in Embedded System Design (Distinction), and consistently blends rigorous engineering with customer-facing support. An unexpected strength is his track record of diagnosing build and performance issues in open-source RTOS codebases, showing aptitude for both debugging legacy drivers and optimizing production firmware.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PG Diploma, Embedded System Design, Distinction, PG Diploma, Embedded System Design, Distinction at National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT)B.Tech, Electronics and Communication, First Class, B.Tech, Electronics and Communication, First Class at Cochin University of Science and Technology
English, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
c1710
mbed10
embedded10
serial-communication10
abstraction-layer10
c1110
microcontroller10
sys10
hal10
architecture9
architectures9
interrupt-handling9
arm9
interrupt9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ARMmbed/mbed-os
Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 24 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Akhil focused on implementing and debugging low-level serial communication APIs within the Mbed OS framework. Their contributions involved modifying the serial communication implementation for the SAMD21 and SAMR21 microcontrollers, including adding support for asynchronous operations and hardware flow control. They also addressed build errors and optimized code, improving the performance of the serial drivers.
kernelmbed-osoperating-systemlinuxmbed
ARMmbed/mbed-hal-atmel-samr21g18a
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 1 day
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