Naveen Gara
Sr. Software Engineer at Roku Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNaveen Gara is a senior software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building embedded systems and firmware, currently focused on Roku’s device software stack from his base in Austin, Texas. He brings deep C++ and Linux/Unix expertise complemented by Python and Bash scripting, with a strong history of shipping reliable, resource-constrained software for consumer and industrial devices. Prior roles include developing Gen4 CommandCenter displays for John Deere’s precision agriculture systems and firmware for Toshiba multifunction peripherals, showing a knack for solving real-world hardware-software integration challenges. He also has early capital markets systems experience at Bloomberg, giving him exposure to low-latency, mission-critical software development. Known for pragmatic engineering and cross-disciplinary collaboration, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on coding to deliver robust embedded products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
365reputation
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Github Skills (27)
gitbook9
job-search9
development-environment8
searching7
macos7
ack6
mercurial6
vscode6
vim6
dvcs6
ansible6
windows6
bash6
amazon-web-services6
vmware-workstation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garanaveen/resume
Aug 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
garanaveen/arbitrage
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:104 commits, 145 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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