Nikhil Divekar
Staff Firmware Engineer at Samsung Electronics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Divekar is a Staff Firmware Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience designing and shipping embedded firmware at Samsung Electronics, progressing from Firmware Engineer to Senior and now Staff roles. He pairs a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder with hands-on mentorship experience as a graduate teaching assistant for advanced embedded software courses. Nikhil has led student autonomous-vehicle projects and bridged academic and industry practice, bringing system-level thinking to low-level firmware and real-time constraints. Comfortable in both leadership and individual-contributor roles, he focuses on dependable silicon-to-software integration and production-ready embedded systems. A background that spans global teams—from Accenture in Mumbai to R&D in San Jose—gives him a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to complex firmware delivery.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Vivekanand Education Society's Institute Of TechnologyMaster's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Marathi, Hindi
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Github contributions (5)
NikhilDivekar7/eid-fall2018
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Repo for CU-Boulder EID Class
Contributions:37 pushes in 2 months
bouldercu-bouldereid
NikhilDivekar7/ECEN_5013_HW4
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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