Bansidhar Mangalwedhekar
R&D Country Manager - India at Nordic Semiconductor ASA
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBansidhar Mangalwedhekar is an experienced connectivity and embedded-systems leader with over two decades of hands-on engineering and management across wireless IPs, DSPs, FPGAs and mixed-signal hardware. Currently R&D Country Manager for Nordic Semiconductor India, he previously led connectivity engineering at Imagination Technologies where he owned architecture, implementation, certification and customer support for IEEE 802.11 portfolios. He co-founded and built Teknosarus, delivering FPGA-based modems and defense-grade signal-processing systems, demonstrating deep expertise from algorithm design to RTL and high-speed PCB bring-up. An active contributor to the nRF Connect SDK, he has implemented Wi‑Fi features and nRF7002 support, showing continued low-level firmware and hardware integration skills. His credentials are reinforced by an MS in Engineering and executive certifications in AI and business analytics, blending technical depth with product and business acumen. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who bridges research, standards-level design and hands-on delivery.
4 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Karnatak UniversityGraduate in Business Analytics, Graduate in Business Analytics at Indiana University BloomingtonMS, Engineering, MS, Engineering at Illinois Institute of TechnologyCPBAE - Certificate Program in Business Analytics for Executives, CPBAE - Certificate Program in Business Analytics for Executives at Indian Institute of Management, LucknowArtificial Intelligence Professional Certificate, Artificial Intelligence Professional Certificate at Stanford University
Github Skills (11)
embedded10
device-tree10
zephyr-rtos10
sys10
wifi10
c119
c179
gpio9
spi8
btle7
documentation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:418 reviews, 6 commits, 18 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bansidhar primarily contributed to the nRF Connect SDK, focusing on Wi-Fi related features and the integration of the nRF7002 Wi-Fi chip. Their work involved adding support for the nRF7002 Evaluation Board (EB) II, fixing a bug in FICR programming, and implementing BLE RF antenna switch control. They modified device tree files, shell scripts, and low-level drivers, demonstrating a strong understanding of embedded systems and hardware integration.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
bama-nordic/sdk-nrf
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Contributions:74 pushes, 19 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 6 months
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