Summary
Atharva Lele is an embedded systems engineer with a decade of experience delivering firmware and application solutions across PIC, ARM, and x86 platforms, currently focused on MCU16 applications at Microchip. He has a strong track record from Intel internships to industrial and medical device projects—shipping low-power IoT loggers with 30+ day battery life, optimizing SPI flash drivers to cut boot time by over 50%, and contributing PXE/U-Boot solutions that drove customer wins. Comfortable across bare-metal, RTOS, and Linux environments, he blends C/C++ proficiency with Bash and Python tooling to build CI/CD-tested firmware and custom Yocto-based Linux images. An MS in Embedded Systems (4.0 GPA) and participation in Google Summer of Code highlight both academic rigor and open-source contribution, including refactoring testing infrastructure for Buildroot. Pragmatic and documentation-minded, he has authored whitepapers and expanded project docs to ease onboarding while consistently solving complex post-silicon and driver issues.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Embedded Systems), GPA: 4.00/4.00, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Embedded Systems), GPA: 4.00/4.00 at Portland State University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication, GPA: 3.4/4.0 - First Class with Distinction, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication, GPA: 3.4/4.0 - First Class with Distinction at Savitribai Phule Pune University