Akhil Sankar
Software Engineer at Welltok, Inc
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhil Sankar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who bridges backend/data engineering and embedded systems, recently deepening his focus via an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering and an IEEE publication on closed-loop trajectory control. He has built production-scale firmware and drivers for ARM Cortex-M platforms, designed state machines and HIL tests, and applied fault-tolerant principles to safety-critical electromechanical systems. His background includes geospatial data engineering and backend roles across AgTech and IoT companies, giving him a pragmatic systems view from cloud services down to bare-metal firmware. Known for structured failure analysis and instrumented validation, he combines hands-on hardware experimentation with software rigor to deliver reliable, high-performance products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace Concentration), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace Concentration) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New BrunswickMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University
English, Tamil, French
Github Skills (25)
raspberry-pi8
home-automation8
python8
iot8
home-assistant7
asyncio7
mqtt7
privacy7
automation6
internet-of-things6
imdb6
garden6
omdb-api5
atom-editor4
log-generator4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fuzzygreenblurs/3dof_control
Apr 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
akhilsankar1993/ping-pong
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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