Summary
Dipankar Pal is a Senior Consultant and embedded systems engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in wireless-router and data-center switch development, currently working on SONiC for Celestica switches. He brings deep hands-on expertise across Yocto, OpenWRT, RDKB, U-Boot, hostapd and kernel work, and is comfortable across C, Python and system-level debugging tools like Wireshark and GDB. At Alumnus Software he built real-time fault management for eCPRI 5G RU, containerized multi-tenant management planes, and led kernel migrations and datapath optimizations for high-end multi-WAN routers. Known for in-depth debugging and pragmatic system design, he routinely implements hardware-software integrations such as I2C, DTS, and HW offload acceleration. A collaborative team player with a masterโs in computer science from the University of Calcutta, he combines telecom-grade reliability work with open-source router stacks and practical DevOps automation. He maintains a public developer presence (dpnkrpl.github.io / dipankar.bio.link) reflecting a steady focus on embedded networking and platform-level solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at syamaprasad college
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Calcutta
English, Hindi, Bengali