Nisheeth Bhat
Sr. Firmware Engineer at NVIDIA
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNisheeth Bhat is a senior firmware engineer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering firmware for SSDs, NVMe virtualization, and embedded systems, currently at NVIDIA in Longmont, Colorado. He has deep expertise in C and firmware architecture, having led cross-domain testing, rescheduling and trap-handling architectures, and SGL and concurrent IO support at Intel for NVMe/NAND products. His background includes security module ownership for 3DXP devices—implementing encryption, signature validation, and runtime feature toggling—and early contributions to open-source NVMe drivers and QEMU support. Nisheeth is skilled at reducing coupling across firmware layers to improve reset latency and enabling SMP-ready transport interfaces for new hardware. He brings a blend of low-level systems craftsmanship and practical product focus, from automotive battery ECUs to avionics-grade SPI drivers. Outside typical firmware work, he’s proven at driving organization-wide reuse and extensibility practices that scale across product lines.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Telecomunications, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Telecomunications at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
linux8
compliance8
security8
nvme7
nvm6
qemu5
emulation5
iot4
moto4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nvmeqemu/nvmeqemu
Jul 2011 - Aug 2012
Contributions:65 commits in 1 year 1 month
expressqemuemulationnvmiot
nvmecompliance/dnvme
Sep 2011 - Feb 2012
Linux driver for NVMe Compliance Suite
Contributions:49 commits in 4 months
linux-driversecuritylinuxcompliancesuite
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