Niraj Menon
Senior Instructional Lab Coordinator
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolNiraj Menon is a Senior Instructional Lab Coordinator and educator with 11 years of hands-on experience building lab curricula and tooling for computer engineering at Purdue University. He blends hardware design (SystemVerilog, RISC-V) and embedded systems with web development and DevOps to create practical learning platforms—reintroducing student-driven embedded projects and designing a custom RP2350-based development platform. Niraj has a track record of shipping automation and authoring custom autograding, simulation, and proctoring tools that let students work reliably both in and out of lab. He also taught SystemVerilog for Purdue’s STARS tape-out program, delivering an open-source flow that accelerates student prototyping. Known for reverse-engineering unknown hardware and building no-frills, student-friendly tools (including publicly hosted simulators), he pairs deep technical craft with a focus on scalable education.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, ISC: 93%, ICSE: 90%, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, ISC: 93%, ICSE: 90% at GEMS Modern Academy
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (76)
verilog10
yosys10
icarus9
stm32cube9
cmsis9
fpga9
alien9
simulator9
python9
synthesis9
micropython9
cpp9
embedded9
simulation9
raspberry9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ece-digitopoly/game-display
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
Display of the Monopoly game on the center screen
Contributions:16 PRs, 64 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
centercrosswordgamevttmonopoly
norandomtechie/ece270-simulator
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:100 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.