Ashish Kumar
Technical Director - Functional Safety at NXP Semiconductors
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAshish Kumar is a seasoned functional safety and embedded software leader with over 20 years of experience designing device drivers, safety-critical firmware and BSPs across Tricore, ARM and PIC platforms. Currently Technical Director - Functional Safety at NXP, he combines hands-on C/C++ development with ISO26262 and IEC61508 assessment, internal safety training, and contributions to corporate safety processes and templates. He has repeatedly led AUTOSAR MCAL and safety architecture efforts at Infineon and driven BSP and driver delivery earlier at Freescale, demonstrating deep expertise in MISRA/C, CERT-C, VxWorks/ThreadX and Linux/Windows CE environments. Comfortable from requirements and safety analyses (HAZOP, DFA) through architecture, code and unit testing, he also brings scripting and tooling fluency (Python, Polyspace, JIRA, Tessy) that accelerates audits and compliance. Notably, he pairs long-term innovation work with line management and assessor duties, making him equally effective as a mentor, trainer and technical authority in automotive safety.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology, High School, Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology at Manipal Junior CollegeBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (27)
startup10
libvirt9
u-boot9
som8
odroid6
repair6
nim-language5
electrical-engineering5
luks5
cortex-a5
libc5
kernel4
linux-kernel4
musl4
arm4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
khadas/u-boot
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
U-Boot for Khadas VIMs & Edge
Contributions:47 commits in 2 years 9 months
libvirtkhadasedgeu-boot
danielschwierzeck/u-boot-lantiq
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:50 commits in 4 years 3 months
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