Summary
Chintan Parikh is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 14 years of experience building system software for consumer electronics, currently leading device software, tools, and infrastructure projects at Netflix. He brings deep embedded and Linux bring-up expertise from early-stage work at Pearl Automation and low-power sensor and firmware experience from Apple’s watch and iPod efforts, including new CoreMotion APIs and pedometer calibration patents. Comfortable across firmware, kernel, and cloud-adjacent tooling, he has repeatedly bridged hardware constraints and product delivery—porting cross-language frameworks to embedded platforms and driving CAN bus and power-management solutions. A Carnegie Mellon ECE master’s graduate, he pairs strong academic foundations with a pragmatic track record of shipping at scale for Apple, Pearl, and Netflix. Notably, he has a history of prototyping on resource-constrained co-processors and enabling factory and cross-platform support that accelerated productization.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, B.Tech, Instrumentation and Control Engineering at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Stanford University
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi