Kawaljeet Kumar
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKawaljeet Kumar is a firmware-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building embedded systems and RTOS-based solutions across consumer, automotive, and storage domains. Trained at IIT Kharagpur, he has shipped firmware for multi-SoC HDD platforms at Western Digital, developed IoT/indoor-positioning stacks and FOTA systems at startups, and now contributes to core software at Microsoft. He combines low-level C/C++ expertise with Python automation for release engineering and tooling, and has hands-on experience mentoring teams on complex multi-core debugging workflows. As a founder and hobbyist maker, he also builds robotics, vending machine projects and teaches IoT classes—bringing product-minded engineering to research and production. Notably, he bridges deep embedded firmware work with backend service automation, making him effective across the hardware–software boundary.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree electronics and electrical communication engineering, Bachelor's degree electronics and electrical communication engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurMetriculation, Metriculation at Kendriya Vidyalaya Katihar
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
espressif9
esp328
github-api7
esp-idf7
iot7
api6
github-bot6
python6
github4
github-api-v32
pygithub1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ikawaljeet/ikawaljeet.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 48 pushes in 6 years 6 months
skywalkerInc/SharpenTheAxe
Dec 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:12 pushes in 3 years
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