Kewal Shah
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Espressif Systems
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolKewal Shah is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 9 years’ experience designing firmware and drivers for Wi‑Fi and IoT platforms, currently leading ESP-DPK efforts at Espressif Systems from Mumbai. He has a strong track record optimizing SDKs—cutting RAM by ~20% and flash by ~10%—and has authored improvements to the widely used esp-idf project, including heap management and UART driver enhancements. His work spans real‑time audio and voice assistant integrations on ESP32, DSP firmware for far‑field wake‑word detection, and cross-team coordination with partners such as Amazon. Passionate about robotics and education, he has led student robotics initiatives and mentorship programs, blending research-oriented ambitions with practical product engineering. Known for bridging low‑level systems work with developer-friendly APIs, he aims to turn robotics research into accessible, real‑world solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)High School, High School at St. Xaviers High SchoolHSC, Science, HSC, Science at Jai Hind College
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (7)
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Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-idf
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
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 commits, 16 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kewal primarily contributed to the Espressif IoT Development Framework, focusing on improvements to the heap memory management and UART driver. Their work included fixing a typo in the heap allocation header, adding an API to retrieve the total heap size with specific capabilities, and implementing a simplified API for setting UART threshold values. They also addressed memory allocation issues within the protocomm console component by checking for allocated memory and defining the size of the line buffer.
espressifdevelopment-frameworkesp-idfiotesp32
kewalmshah/esp-va-sdk
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
DSPG's DBMD5 support for ESP32 audio development board "LyraTD-DSPG"
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
boardaudio-developmentesp32audio
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