Summary
Kartik Aiyer is a Staff Embedded Engineer based in California with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping real-time video and audio pipelines for camera SoCs and wearable devices. He has driven firmware and OS-level features across the product lifecycle—from board bring-up and RTOS (ThreadX) implementations to customer-specific integrations on platforms like Ambarella and CSR COACH. His background spans startups and OEMs (Rylo, Jaunt VR, Looxcie, EFI) where he has led embedded teams and delivered complex features such as multi-stream recording and real-time streaming. Enthusiastic about scalable cloud analytics, Kartik has also been exploring Scala for large-scale systems over the last two years, bridging embedded expertise with cloud-oriented thinking. Outside engineering he channels discipline and rhythm as a drummer and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, a combination that surfaces in his pragmatic, steady approach to product development.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE Electrical Engineering, MSEE Electrical Engineering at Purdue University