L Lakshmanan
Doctoral Student at The University of Edinburgh
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolL Lakshmanan is a doctoral student and embedded systems engineer with five years' experience bridging academic research and production-grade firmware. He has a strong track record porting SoCs to the Zephyr RTOS and upstreaming drivers for Texas Instruments hardware—work that includes implementing a proprietary RAT (address translation) module and Cortex-M4F support for AM62x. His background combines B.Tech/MS-level research at IIIT Hyderabad with internships at Texas Instruments and Microsoft and contributions to high-profile open-source projects like zephyrproject-rtos. Comfortable with low-level C, Devicetree, Kconfig and OpenAMP, he also has hands-on teaching and leadership experience running labs and TA teams for large undergraduate cohorts. Notably, many of his device-tree and driver patches are merged upstream, demonstrating an ability to deliver clean, maintainable code that meets open-source standards.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
AISSCE, AISSCE at National Centre For ExcellenceB.Tech + MS by Research, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, B.Tech + MS by Research, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at International Institute of Information TechnologyAISSE, PCMC, AISSE, PCMC at National Public School
Github Skills (13)
c1710
embedded-language10
memory-management10
embedded10
rtos10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
device-driver9
uart9
iot8
bluetooth-le3
bluetooth3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 5 PRs, 48 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:L primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS project by implementing and fixing drivers, specifically for Texas Instruments (TI) hardware. Their work includes adding support for the TI RAT module using the system_mm API, which involves address translation and memory management. They also add support for a TI K3 UART variant and fixes build warnings related to the RAT driver. Furthermore, they add and configure board files for the TI AM62X SK EVM, adding support for the Cortex-M4F core.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
KarthikL1729/zephyr
May 2023 - Jul 2023
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:2 PRs, 115 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
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