Nishad Saraf
Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishad Saraf is a Member of Technical Staff with nine years of embedded systems and firmware engineering experience, currently based in San Francisco and working at AMD after a progression of roles at Xilinx. He combines low-level C/C++/x86 Assembly expertise with hardware skills—FPGA development, multilayer PCB design, lab instrumentation, and kernel/driver development—to deliver robust bare-metal and real-time systems. His work on Xilinx's embeddedsw repo shows hands-on contributions to AI Engine drivers and low-level interrupt controller APIs, reflecting strength in both firmware and pre-silicon validation. Past projects include safety-focused firmware validation at Tesla and building solar-tracking control platforms, demonstrating an ability to translate system requirements into production-ready hardware and test infrastructure. Comfortable switching between individual contributor and team roles, he brings a practical, test-driven approach to complex embedded problems and a track record of improving reliability and performance at system scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada UniversityMaster’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University
English
Github Skills (7)
interrupt10
embedded10
c-programming10
xilinx10
sys10
controller10
embedded-software9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Xilinx/embeddedsw
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Xilinx Embedded Software (embeddedsw) Development
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:200 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nishad's contributions primarily involve modifications and enhancements within the Xilinx Embedded Software (embeddedsw) development repository. The commits demonstrate a focus on updating and improving the AI Engine (AIE) driver and its related functionalities. These changes include renaming attributes, adding low-level APIs for 2nd level interrupt controllers, fixing data type conflicts, addressing MISRA-C violations and making enhancements to existing functionalities.
xilinxembedded-softwareembedded
NishadSaraf/linux
Feb 2023 - Jul 2024
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
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