Kedar Sovani
Director Alternate, Board Of Directors
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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RockstarKedar Sovani is a seasoned technology leader with 12 years of experience building product-led IoT and systems software from concept to multi-million dollar production. As Sr. Director of Engineering at Espressif Systems and a Director Alternate on the Connectivity Standards Alliance board, he blends hands-on kernel and embedded systems expertise with strategic product and ecosystem leadership. He has led teams from scratch to deliver first-to-market products used by millions of IoT devices worldwide, with a strong focus on secure, high-performance networking. Notably, his open-source contributions to Espressif’s esp-idf improved TLS (ALPN, SNI) and HTTP/2 support, strengthening secure communications across constrained devices. Comfortable toggling between low-level Linux/kernel work and product delivery, he is equally effective mentoring engineers and shaping standards that scale. Based in Pune, he pairs technical depth with a track record of turning complex embedded requirements into reliable, widely-deployed solutions.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
ss10
sslv310
ssl10
mbedtls10
c1110
openssl10
networking9
http9
sys9
iot-devkit9
embedded9
iot9
alpn8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-idf
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 9 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kedar contributed significantly to the OpenSSL component within the Espressif IoT Development Framework, implementing features like ALPN protocol support and SNI (Server Name Indication) for TLS connections. They modified the platform-specific TLS implementation, integrating mbedTLS and modifying low-level socket functions. Additionally, the user worked on integrating and testing HTTP2 functionality, creating examples and modifying existing libraries within the framework to support HTTP2 and related TLS features, demonstrating a focus on improving secure communication within the IoT context.
espressifdevelopment-frameworkesp-idfiotesp32
kedars/matter-rs
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Plonk: The Rust Implementation of Matter
Contributions:414 commits, 16 PRs, 100 pushes in 1 year 3 months
rustplonkmatter
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