Mihir Ganu
Systems Software Engineer at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMihir Ganu is a systems software engineer with 11 years' experience building firmware and embedded software for mobile and automotive platforms, now focused at Apple after a long tenure at Qualcomm. He drove end-to-end video codec stacks—Linux V4L2 drivers, codec firmware, Android frameworks and hardware-accelerated H.264/H.265/VP8/VP9/AV1 implementations—across multiple flagship Snapdragon platforms from pre-silicon to commercialization. His work spans performance, power/thermal optimization, memory tuning and content protection, reflecting a systems-level approach to squeezing efficiency from complex SoCs. Earlier roles included automotive infotainment prototyping and sensor-hub firmware, giving him a practical customer-facing and cross-domain perspective. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UNC Charlotte and brings a blend of low-level firmware craftsmanship and platform integration experience that often surfaces in subtle optimizations across software, firmware, and hardware boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at University of North Carolina at CharlotteBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at University of Mumbai / Sardar Patel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (7)
arm6
linux-device-driver6
device-tree6
assembly6
linux1
unix1
android1
Github contributions (5)
MG47/algorithms-CPP
Mar 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 7 months
MG47/Introduction-to-interactive-programming-in-python-coursera
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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