Nikhil Namala is a Cellular Systems Engineer based in San Diego with 8 years of hands-on experience validating and deploying 4G and 5G systems for major US operators and global customers. He specializes in end-to-end lab and field testing—covering LTE/NR PHY-to-core call flows, VoLTE/IMS signaling, mobility, performance and feature/regression testing across FDD/TDD bands and mmWave hardware. At Casa Systems and Samsung he led E2E trials, virtualization and ORAN-related testing, and has deep familiarity with MAC/PDCP/RLC/PHY/NAS layers as well as test tools like XCAL, Spirent and Wireshark. Comfortable coding and scripting from C/C++ to JavaScript, he also contributes open-source work (an NPM package for movie quotes) showing a practical full-stack curiosity beyond core telecom systems. Known for bridging field integration and system development teams, he brings both rigorous lab methodology and customer-focused post-deployment support to complex network projects.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Board of Intermediate Education, MPC, Board of Intermediate Education, MPC at Krishnamurthy IIT Academy
Central Board of Secondary Education, Central Board of Secondary Education at Vivekananda Residential School
San Diego State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at MVSR Engineering college , affiliated to Osmania University.
A simple NPM package which returns popular movie quotes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 505 commits, 304 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed to the development of the NPM package. Their work involved adding and modifying functions for retrieving movie quotes, fixing typos, and updating the demo file. The user implemented functionality for fetching quotes by year and movie. They also added tests to ensure the quality of the quotes data.
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