Kunal Powar
Senior Staff Software Engineer at StronkWorks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKunal Powar is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 12 years of experience building competitive eSports and gaming platforms, most recently leading engineering at StronkWorks after growing SoStronk from inception to acquisition by Dream11. He blends backend systems expertise in Go, Java and Ruby with hands-on embedded/IoT work—co-authoring the embd Go framework and adding sensor, SPI/I2C and PWM support that bridge hardware and cloud services. As an IC and tech lead he focuses on scalable product delivery and cross-functional engineering for desktop and mobile gaming, while mentoring teams through rapid growth and acquisition. Outside of product work he actively experiments with electronics and hobby projects, bringing practical hardware insight to software architecture decisions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Assumption English schoolB.E., Electronics And Communication, B.E., Electronics And Communication at B. M. S. College of EngineeringPU, electronics, PU, electronics at K.L.E. independent PU college, Bangalore.
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Github Skills (16)
i2c10
embedded10
go10
spi10
sys10
system-integration10
interfacing10
hardware-interface10
sensor-fusion10
pwm10
mutex6
json6
html6
javascript6
python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kidoman/embd
Dec 2013 - Jan 2015
Embedded Programming Framework in Go
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Kunal primarily contributed to the `embd` framework by adding support for interfacing with various sensors and hardware components, including the BH1750FVI ambient light sensor, a 4x3 keypad, and the MCP3008 ADC. Their work involved developing Go packages to interact with these devices via I2C and SPI protocols. The user also implemented PWM control for servo motors using the PCA9685 controller and added SPI library.
golangi2cgpiohardwaresamd21
kunalpowar/go-game-of-life
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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