Nikhil Gautam
Senior Engineer at Qualcomm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Gautam is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 8 years of experience designing and delivering firmware and kernel-level solutions across semiconductor, networking, and embedded systems domains. Currently at Qualcomm after a multi-year engagement with Cisco via Capgemini Engineering, he brings deep expertise in Embedded C, device drivers, ARM architecture, RTOS/Embedded Linux and peripherals such as I2C/SPI/UART. Nikhil is skilled at debugging complex hardware-software interactions and has shipped production-ready modules on platforms including STM32, Atmel and ESP32. Trained at Emertxe and grounded in an EEE BTech, he combines disciplined RTOS-level thinking with hands-on Linux kernel programming—an approach that helps bridge low-level performance needs with system-level reliability.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Embedded Software Professional, Embedded Systems, Embedded Software Professional, Embedded Systems at Emertxe Institute, BangaloreBachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical UniversitySchool, School at Central Board of Secondary Education
Github Skills (4)
lxc4
linux4
docker4
linux-containers3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Nikhilgtr/Emertxe
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Nikhilgtr/MODBUS
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 8 months
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