Pritam Ghanghas
Sr. Manager (Sr. Architect) At Itaas, Inc - A Cognizant Company
Englewood, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPritam Ghanghas is a Sr. Manager and Sr. Architect at itaas (Cognizant) with nearly two decades of experience designing Qt/C++ and Linux-based embedded systems, specializing in IoT gateways, RDK/STB platforms, and real-time devices. He blends deep systems-level expertise—modern C++, STL, data structures and design patterns—with applied machine vision, time-series AI tooling, and cloud IoT integrations across AWS and Azure. A hands-on contributor to prominent open-source UAV projects like QGroundControl and ArduPilot, he implemented firmware upgrade and radio-flashing improvements that eased developer workflows for cross-platform ground control. His career spans leadership roles building LoRaWAN gateways and industrial IoT products, showing a pattern of moving from low-level embedded graphics and VOD set-top work to strategic IoT architecture. Based in Englewood, Colorado, he brings a practical product focus informed by field-deployable systems and an uncommon combination of UAV firmware experience and cloud-connected IoT orchestration.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Haryana College of Technology and ManagementPG diploma Embedded Systems Design, PG diploma Embedded Systems Design at CDAC pune
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (8)
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cprogramming-language10
qt10
github9
uid8
front-end-development8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mavlink/qgroundcontrol
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 16 PRs, 86 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Pritam primarily contributed to the firmware upgrade functionality within the QGroundControl application. They modified the `FirmwareUpgradeController` class to add support for flashing beta and developer versions of the APM stack. They also refactored the code to initialize firmware hashes and URLs, along with fixing 3DR radio flashing issues and improving the identification of different radio versions. Furthermore, the user integrated the APM flight mode support.
linux-osios-androidiosdroneground
pritamghanghas/qgroundcontrol
Sep 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 104 pushes, 50 branches in 6 years 4 months
stationgroundqgroundcontrolground-control-station
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