Nikhil Punathil
Senior Sales Engineering Manager at Esper
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Punathil is a senior sales engineering manager and systems-focused engineering leader with a decade of experience building Android, embedded and foundation OS tooling at Esper. A UC Santa Cruz computer engineering graduate, he blends hands-on kernel and Android development roots with product-facing technical leadership across international and US teams. He progressed from Android engineer and open-source contributor (notably in custom ROM communities) to managing Innovation Labs and Foundation OS teams, now driving sales engineering strategy in Bellevue. Known for a passion for embedded hardware and operating systems, he pairs deep systems-level expertise with a knack for translating complex technical trade-offs into customer-facing solutions. Off the clock he’s a self-professed “Fandroid” and Star Wars fan who brings a bit of humor to technical discussions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (8)
maru9
manifest8
android7
linux7
configurations6
virtualization5
device-tree2
snowflake1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SaltyJester/project-kitt
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
A repository for Project KITT. This is for CSE 115a.
Contributions:30 PRs, 34 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
kittcse
drakonizer/nps-dev
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:18 PRs, 77 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
npsweb-basedvotinghsrweb-software
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