Karmit Dandona
Embedded Systems Engineer Consultant at Orion
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarmit Dandona is a Lead Embedded Systems Engineer based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building resilient firmware and device infrastructure for consumer and AI hardware. He has led global engineering teams through factory bring-up and first deliveries, architecting multi-chip firmware, OTA update systems, and reliable inter-chip communication on safety-critical products. His background spans end-to-end embedded work—from bootloaders and FreeRTOS on ARM to board bring-up, hardware security, and production reliability—gained at companies including Orion, Humane, Tesla, and Sonos. Karmit also designs HIL automation and factory tooling, having ported vendor code across architectures and improved visibility with logging and metrics pipelines. He combines hands-on low-level engineering with operational rigor in device and fleet operations, and he often bridges firmware, schematics, and test automation in the same project. Colleagues describe him as a technologist who brings practical systems thinking to complex hardware-software integration problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of California, DavisFolsom High School
English
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karmitdandona/Pick-Up-Chips
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
karmitdandona/Alexa-Wifi-Automation
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches in 19 days
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