Nikhil Kalige
Staff Software Engineer at Intuitive
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Kalige is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 12 years of experience designing real-time embedded software and electronic products, currently driving embedded systems and build infrastructure at Intuitive. He blends deep hardware and firmware expertise—born from roles in secure POS hardware, OpenWRT-based solar monitoring, and Zigbee integrations—with hands-on Python and JavaScript frontend work dating to a Mars project at Arizona State. Comfortable across CAD modeling (SolidWorks), circuit/board layout, and low-level firmware, he also contributes to well-known front-end frameworks by fixing bugs and improving components. Outside of work he pursues craft skills like carpentry and bookbinding and reads fantasy, a combination that reflects a practical, detail-oriented maker mindset not obvious from his job titles alone.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at B. M. S. College of Engineering
Kannada, English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
web-development10
foundation-sites10
html9
css9
sass8
ui-design7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
foundation/foundation-sites
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed to the Foundation Sites framework by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of several components. They addressed an offcanvas animation issue, and fixed a bug regarding the orbit content slider. They also modified the tooltip, alert and offcanvas components by renaming and refactoring methods, optimizing code, and adding new functionalities. Further changes were made to the documentation.
frontend
nikhilkalige/git-log
May 2014 - Oct 2017
A Atom package for git commit graphs
Contributions:98 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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