Muhammad Aksar
Lead Engineer - Camera SW Development at Aptiv
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolMuhammad Aksar is a Lead Engineer specializing in camera system software with 8+ years of experience designing and shipping Android and Linux camera stacks across ARM and x86 platforms. He combines a strong academic foundation (M.Tech in Sensor System Technology) with deep hands-on expertise in kernel-level drivers, Android Camera HAL, ISPs, and a wide range of camera interfaces (MIPI-CSI, USB3.x, HDMI, GMSL, SerDes). At Intel he led Android camera domains and contributed production kernel fixes and USB camera hotplug/USB3.x support in notable open-source repos like projectceladon/vendor-intel-utils. Comfortable across board bring-up, virtualization, and cloud streaming contexts, he has delivered camera solutions for automotive, mobile, IoT and cloud gaming platforms. Known for pragmatic debugging and cross-disciplinary hardware-software design, he has repeatedly enabled complex sensor bring-ups (4K HDMI-to-MIPI bridges, VCM, flash) on Snapdragon, Intel and Qualcomm SoCs. Based in Bengaluru, he blends systems-level rigor with product-driven delivery and a proven track record of turning sensor and ISP complexity into reliable production software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communication Engineering at University of CalicutMaster of Technology (M.Tech.) Sensor System Technology, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Sensor System Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (7)
kernel10
kernel-mode10
sys9
embedded9
c-language8
linux-kernel8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
projectceladon/vendor-intel-utils
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 11 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Muhammad primarily contributed to the `projectceladon/vendor-intel-utils` repository by implementing and modifying camera drivers, focusing on USB camera support. Their work includes adding hotplug support, enabling USB 3.x cameras, and fixing a crash related to disconnecting USB cameras. They also addressed frame rate handling for advanced USB cameras and made kernel-level modifications related to GVT active status.
muhammadaksar/device-androidia
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 4 months
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