Harsha Rajendran
Software Engineering Manager at Axon
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarsha Rajendran is a software engineering manager based in Greater Boston with 12+ years of experience building embedded and IoT connectivity stacks across consumer robotics, smart home, and public safety devices. He has led teams at Axon and SimpliSafe and drove platform-level connectivity, OTA, and cloud integration for a 20M+ device fleet at iRobot. At Samsung Research he represented the company in the open-source Matter (Connected Home IP) ecosystem and contributed bug fixes and feature enhancements to the widely adopted project, demonstrating both protocol-level expertise and community collaboration. Comfortable in C/C++ on constrained SoCs as well as higher-level cloud integrations (MQTT, TLS, AWS IoT), he blends hands-on firmware work with people and product leadership. Known for shipping robust OTA and streaming pipelines, he focuses on resilient, secure device communications that scale from prototypes to millions of devices. An engineer-turned-manager who still dives into code, Harsha brings practical embedded systems depth to strategic platform decisions.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaB.Tech Computer science, B.Tech Computer science at Vellore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
ip10
iot10
smart-device10
matter-js10
embedded10
connections10
connected10
ota10
connect-iq10
sys10
connectivity10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
json7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Dec 2021 - Nov 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:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:136 reviews, 15 commits, 22 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Harsha primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the Matter (connectedhomeip) project, a standard for connected devices. Their contributions included fixing memory leaks in example applications, improving OTA (Over-The-Air) provider functionality, and adding features such as support for supplying OTA download file paths. They also worked on adding access control and enabling the Basic Information Cluster. Furthermore, they implemented a simple DetermineProviderLocation API.
connectivity-standards-alliancebuild-with-matterguidedzephyrconnectivity
harsha-rajendran/connectedhomeip
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) is creating more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (formerly Zigbee Alliance).
Contributions:14 commits, 103 pushes, 26 branches in 11 months
allianceconnectivityconnectivity-standards-alliancesimplifyingstandards
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