Prashant Chikhalkar
Member Of Technical Staff at Wind River
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrashant Chikhalkar is a Member of Technical Staff at Wind River with 11 years of hands-on experience in Linux kernel and systems software, specializing in C, shell scripting, Yocto/Bitbake builds, and cross-architecture work (ARM, MIPS, x86, PPC). He has progressed through customer-facing engineering roles into senior technical positions solving complex Wind River Linux issues and maintaining WRLx releases for premium customers. Comfortable with low-level debugging (GDB/KGDB), build systems, and version control, he blends deep kernel expertise with practical platform delivery. An electronics engineer by training and an eMasters candidate in Cyber Security at IIT Kanpur, he brings an uncommon combination of embedded systems and security-focused academics. A longtime open-source and Linux kernel hobbyist, he quietly contributes to upstream-friendly workflows and platform integrations. Not actively seeking new roles, he continues to deepen expertise in embedded Linux and secure platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurRashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityHSC (10 + 2), MATHEMATICS,ELECTRICAL,PHYSICS,CHEMISTRY, First Division, HSC (10 + 2), MATHEMATICS,ELECTRICAL,PHYSICS,CHEMISTRY, First Division at Maharashtra State Board
English, Marathi, Hindi
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
css10
codebase10
certification10
math10
nodejs10
react10
programming-tools9
digitalocean7
linux-device-driver6
compiler-construction6
linux6
linux-kernel6
github6
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prashantchikhalkar/PGDAST
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
prashantchikhalkar/c_ritchie
Jul 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:12 PRs, 122 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
c-programmingc-programming-languagedennisbrianritchie
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