Manohara HK is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with nine years of embedded systems and networking experience, and a longer career history spanning mobile platforms, board bring-up, and router core infrastructure. He has deep hands-on expertise in C/C++, Linux internals, device drivers (I2C, SPI, PCIe), BSPs and bootloaders, and has worked on CPU/NPU subsystems for Cisco CRS/NCS-class routers. His background includes commercializing ARM-based chipsets (Qualcomm, Samsung Exynos), performance tuning, and low-level debugging with tools like GDB and Lauterbach Trace32. At Juniper and Cisco he moved from individual contributor to staff-level responsibilities delivering critical network software, and earlier led platform work at Samsung. He is an active open-source contributor to TizenRT, adding board support and flash/ROM features that highlight his strength in hardware-software integration for IoT devices. Known for bridging system software and hardware teams, he excels at turning complex embedded requirements into production-ready products for global clients.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.E.(Electronics and Communication), SJMIT, Chitradurga, B.E.(Electronics and Communication), SJMIT, Chitradurga at Visvesvaraya Technological University
High School, High School at Chinmuladri National High School(CNHS),Chitradurga
M.S., Software Systems, M.S., Software Systems at Birla Institute of Technology and Science(BITS), Pilani
TizenRT is a lightweight RTOS-based platform to support low-end IoT devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:1 review, 107 commits, 55 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Manohara primarily contributed to the TizenRT real-time operating system, focusing on board support and device driver development. The contributions include adding support for the Winbond W25 flash memory driver, integrating it with the board's file system setup, and configuring the STM32F429I-DISCO board with example applications. The user also implemented auto-mounting and image download capabilities for the ROM file system. The work demonstrates a focus on hardware interaction, boot-up procedures, and system-level integration of software and hardware components.
Tizen RT is a lightweight RTOS-based platform to support low-end IoT devices
Contributions:84 pushes, 57 branches in 4 years 9 months
iot-devicesmqttrtostizenfreertos
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Manohara HK - Staff Software Engineer at Juniper Networks