Prashanth Rao
Software Engineer at DLRL
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashanth Rao is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building embedded and high-performance systems across robotics, medical electronics, automotive, railways and defense. He specializes in C/C++ embedded development and Python, and recently applied CUDA to modernize legacy radar DSP algorithms for much larger data workloads. His background spans safety-critical SIL2/SIL4 automotive software, AUTOSAR-compliant BSW leadership, and hands-on firmware for motion control and medical devices, reflecting deep systems-level expertise. As an independent consultant since 2019, he blends practical product delivery with research-grade tooling from his computational linguistics work at Universität des Saarlandes. Based in Bengaluru, he is comfortable moving between low-level hardware interfaces and high-throughput GPU pipelines—a useful bridge between embedded constraints and modern parallel computing. An understated strength is his track record of translating legacy algorithmic code into scalable, integrable solutions for desktop and MATLAB ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics & Communications, BE, Electronics & Communications at Universität des Saarlandes
English, Hindi, Kannada, German
Github Skills (85)
torrent10
bittorrent10
launchpad9
music9
issue-tracking9
fonttools9
mozart8
audio8
linux8
dot-language8
wallpaper8
graphviz8
manjaro8
player8
git-mirror8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pnrao/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:97 pushes in 10 years 3 months
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