Harshit Malpani
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarshit Malpani is an embedded software engineer with six years of experience specializing in secure, reliable IoT firmware and networking middleware. At Espressif he improved secure boot verification, added Delta OTA to shrink firmware updates by ~60%, and enabled hardware-backed ECDSA for TLS—work that directly strengthened device security and update efficiency. A contributor to the widely used esp-idf framework, he has fixed Wi‑Fi provisioning and upgraded HTTP/TLS examples to make real-world deployments more robust. He holds a strong academic record (MS Computer Science, University at Buffalo; BE Computer Engineering) and combines rigorous engineering with practical open-source impact. Unusually for an embedded engineer, he has hands-on experience migrating test frameworks to pytest, bridging low-level firmware work with modern software testing practices.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
12th, PCM, 90.6, 12th, PCM, 90.6 at St. Paul SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 8.97, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 8.97 at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.91, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.91 at University at Buffalo10th, 9.8, 10th, 9.8 at K. V. S Public School
Github Skills (10)
esp-idf10
http-client10
embedded10
http10
c-programming10
sys10
wifi10
security9
ota9
software-update9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-idf
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 136 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Harshit contributed to the Espressif IoT Development Framework by fixing WiFi provisioning issues, updating HTTP client examples, and adding support for features related to secure boot and HTTPS connections. Their work primarily focused on improving the reliability and security of the framework, as demonstrated by code modifications to Wi-Fi provisioning, HTTP client and HTTPS features. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the HTTP server, focusing on supporting custom HTTP status codes.
espressifdevelopment-frameworkesp-idfiotesp32
hmalpani/idf-extra-components
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
Additional components for ESP-IDF, maintained by Espressif
Contributions:9 PRs, 232 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 5 months
esp8266additionalespressifespidf
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