Amaan Cheval
Freelance Embedded Software Engineer at Toptal
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAmaan Cheval is a freelance embedded software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in low-level systems, real-time kernels, and emulator/JIT development. He maintains the x86-64 BSP for the RTEMS real-time OS and contributed substantive kernel-level features—paging with 1GiB superpages, APIC timer drivers, and interrupt/context init—that enabled user-space execution on new hardware. Previously he helped build v86, a browser x86 emulator with a JIT to WebAssembly, and has worked across C, Rust, JavaScript, and systems tooling to make exotic ideas practical and performant. Amaan blends academic curiosity (compiler work, reverse engineering, language safety and formal verification interests) with hands-on production engineering, aiming to apply those skills to high-impact domains like space and healthcare. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs deep systems expertise with a habit of exploring adjacent fields—machine learning, neuroengineering, and quantum computing—so he often brings unexpected perspectives to embedded problems.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Junior College, Computer Science, Junior College, Computer Science at RD NationalUtpal Shanghvi SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Thakur College Of Engineering and Technology
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Github Skills (42)
auth10
paging10
html5-canvas10
javascript10
assembly10
interrupt-handling10
c1110
c1710
interrupt10
sys10
x86-6410
html10
embedded10
angular10
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Github contributions (5)
auth0-samples/auth0-angularjs2-systemjs-sample
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 12 days
Contributions summary:Amaan primarily updated multiple Angular 2 samples within the repository. These updates involved migrating each sample to use Angular 2 rc6, which included changes to systemjs.config.js, app.module.ts, app.routes.ts, app.component.ts and main.ts files. The user also updated various sample configurations to include Auth0 integration.
RTEMS/rtems
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Realtime SMP Kernel, networking, file-systems, drivers, BSPs, samples, and testsuite.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Amaan's contributions center around the x86_64 port of the RTEMS operating system. They implemented core components of the BSP, including context initialization, interrupt handling, paging support with 1GiB super pages, and an APIC timer-based clock driver. The commits also involved adding a polled console driver for the NS16550 and reorganizing header files. These changes enabled basic system initialization and user application execution on the new platform.
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