Bharat Dandu
Staff Software Engineer at Silicon Labs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBharat Dandu is a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with over eight years in IoT and embedded systems, now leading ZAP tool development and roadmap work at Silicon Labs. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C, Java, and JavaScript with product-focused engineering—owning feature design, sprint delivery, and documentation improvements tied to Matter/CSA and Zigbee standards. Bharat has driven architectural changes to decouple ZCL for multi-protocol use, built a ZCL code generator that accelerates prototyping, and contributed stability-focused core fixes to the high-profile Matter (Project CHIP) open-source project. He pairs a Northeastern MS in Computer Science with practical experience across firmware, cloud-monitoring concepts (patent-pending), and developer tooling. Known for making complex protocol machinery more maintainable, he often surfaces user-driven priorities through surveys and roadmap-driven planning.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Amity UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Northeastern University
English, French, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
connected10
connections10
connectivity10
iot10
matter-js10
smart-device10
cprogramming-language10
connect-iq9
sys9
embedded9
homeconnect8
microchip8
chips8
connect8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer / Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:93 reviews, 6 commits, 25 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Bharat primarily contributed to the Matter (formerly Project CHIP) project, focusing on the core functionality and interoperability of connected home devices. Their work involved modifying and generating code related to command handlers and outgoing commands, ensuring determinism within the system. They also worked on updating data type schemas and refactoring code, specifically related to the use of enums, bitmaps, and attribute handling within the ZAP framework. The user's contributions centered on improving the stability and maintainability of the CHIP codebase.
connectivity-standards-alliancebuild-with-matterguidedzephyrconnectivity
brdandu/zap
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
ZAP is Zigbee Cluster Library configuration tool and generator. It allows users to configure their ZCL application using web-like interface and then generate the required artifacts for this application, based upon the templates inside a given ZCL SDK.
Contributions:675 pushes, 118 branches, 2 tags in 3 years 2 months
sdkzclzigbeeartifactsconfigure
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