Summary
Kumud Nepal is a Senior Manager and engineering leader with 11 years of experience specializing in low-level systems, embedded firmware, and Root of Trust designs for cloud infrastructure. He holds a PhD from Brown University where he built automated tools and analytical models for area- and power-efficient computing, and even implemented a high-throughput FPGA image deblurring pipeline and a pipelined MIPS core. At Oracle he has progressed from firmware engineer to senior management, leading teams that co-design embedded SoCs, secure provisioning flows, authenticated OTA updates, and hardware wipe capabilities for OCI. Kumud blends deep hands-on skills (bare-metal firmware, drivers, JTAG/GDB debugging) with strategic product delivery, and he’s comfortable moving between architectural trade-offs and implementation details. Based in Providence, he brings a research-driven approach to practical security engineering, notable for squeezing high accuracy from tiny explored design spaces.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering at Brown University
B.S Electrical Engineering, B.S Electrical Engineering at Trinity College-Hartford