Makarand Karvekar
Principal Engineer at Abbott
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMakarand Karvekar is a Principal Engineer with 12+ years of deep expertise in wearables, IoT and mobile telecom software, currently leading neuromodulation engineering at Abbott from Austin. He has driven prototype-to-production efforts as a project lead, technical lead and architect across chipsets from TI, nVidia, Intel and Qualcomm, and helped ship landmark products like Moto 360 and Moto X. His background spans embedded firmware, secure boot and OTA, sensor fusion and real-time OS work (nuttx/Greybus), plus cloud-integrated IoT stacks including AWS and Google IoT. He’s led cross-functional engineering across vendors and platform teams, blending low-level bring-up, mobile analytics and product-level features. A cofounder of a consumer wearable startup and former Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Motorola, he pairs hands-on debugging with strategic system design. Notably, he combines mobile boot and security expertise with practical production support for manufacturing and OTA ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bengaluru UniversityMaster's Degree Engineering Management, Master's Degree Engineering Management at Northwestern UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bradley University
Github Skills (12)
moto10
open-hardware9
iio8
hal8
hardware8
firmware7
atmel6
bootloader3
linux-kernel2
kernel2
linux1
dht1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Moto-G4/kernel-msm
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:12 commits in 10 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxmsm
MotorolaMobilityLLC/nuttx
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Main firmware for Moto Mods
Contributions:47 commits in 1 year 4 months
iiofirmwaremotoatmelhardware
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