Nidish Vashistha
Senior Product Security Engineer (E4) (Firmware Hardware) at National Science Foundation (NSF)
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolNidish Vashistha is a Senior Product Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building secure firmware and hardware for next-generation memory at Micron Technology. He combines deep failure-analysis expertise—OBIRCH, thermal emission, FIB-SEM cross-sections—and NAND yield improvement with research-grade hardware security skills developed during a PhD at the University of Florida, including published work, patents, and invited conference papers. Based in Boise, Idaho, he bridges R&D and product security, moving discoveries from microscopy and lab instrumentation to production-ready mitigations. Nidish also contributes to science funding decisions as an NSF reviewer and brings a rare blend of academic rigor and practical lab fluency that accelerates secure silicon development.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hardware Security & Trust), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hardware Security & Trust) at University of FloridaUniversity of DelhiIEEE VoLT - Volunteer Leadership Training (Certificate Program), Organizational Leadership, Graduated, IEEE VoLT - Volunteer Leadership Training (Certificate Program), Organizational Leadership, Graduated at IEEEHigh School, Science - Medical Stream with Maths, High School, Science - Medical Stream with Maths at Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas VidyalayaBachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication Engineeing, First Class Division, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication Engineeing, First Class Division at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (129)
autocomplete10
flycheck10
cpp10
clang10
melpa10
libclang10
folding10
ide10
matlab9
emacs-lisp9
emacs9
cmake9
image-restoration9
html-document9
super-resolution9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Nidish96/abaqus-mode
Aug 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
Nidish96/cmake-ide
Feb 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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