Mahendra Gunawardena
Principal at Mitisa LLC
New Jersey, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMahendra Gunawardena is a principal product innovation and embedded systems leader with over two decades of experience taking IoT, MEMS, sensing and embedded platforms from concept to commercial revenue across industrial, consumer, medical and automotive markets. He blends hands-on electrical and firmware engineering with strategic innovation, having driven connected and AI-enabled product roadmaps, authored more than 10 patents, and cut design complexity and costs by half through specification governance. Known for translating customer needs into defensible, monetizable platforms, he has a track record of aligning engineering roadmaps with enterprise growth and resolving complex supply-chain and vendor risk issues. Mahendra has repeatedly institutionalized Design Thinking and DFSS practices to increase R&D velocity and solution quality while leading cross-functional NPI execution. He pairs deep MEMS/ASIC and battery expertise with practical software and data analytics insight, enabling scalable sensing systems that support AI/ML-driven operations. Based in New Jersey, he combines consulting and corporate leadership experience, often stepping into technical debt and regulatory challenges to deliver long-term, revenue-focused outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Firmware Engineering, Graduate Certificate in Firmware Engineering at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering / Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleMaster of Science, M.S., Computer Science, Master of Science, M.S., Computer Science at Ball State University
Stackoverflow
1,966reputation
106kreached
25answers
27questions
Github Skills (18)
accelerometer9
i2c8
arm6
beaglebone-black6
embedded6
bluetooth-low-energy6
arduino6
android6
linux6
microcontroller6
displays6
bluepill3
hal3
controller3
buildroot2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mahengunawardena/BeagleboneBlack_I2C_ADXL345
Aug 2014 - Jul 2019
Beagleboneblack I2C ADXL345 Accelerometer
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 4 years 11 months
i2cadxl345accelerometer
mahengunawardena/Tiva_SPI_Nokia_ADXL345
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 8 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.