Raakesh Kamal
Embedded Firmware Engineer - SDE2 at Amazon
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRaakesh Kamal is an Embedded Firmware Engineer with 11 years’ experience delivering end-to-end hardware and firmware solutions, currently contributing to Amazon’s embedded systems initiatives from Cambridge. He specializes in electric mobility and robotics, with hands-on expertise across STM32/TI MCUs, ESP32, UWB, LoRa, CAN, and protocols like MQTT, I2C and ModBus, plus firmware in C/C++ and Python on Linux/RTOS. His background includes leading a 5-person electronics team to build indoor positioning for drone navigation, custom ESCs and smart battery systems, and shipping certified hardware from prototype through manufacturing. Comfortable across PCB design, power systems, and cloud-connected IoT (AWS IoT, Git workflows), he blends system-level architecture with low-level optimization. Notably, he achieved 10 cm accuracy on a UWB-based IPS early in his career—demonstrating a focus on high-throughput, practical localization solutions. An IIT Madras graduate with a minor in management, he pairs strong technical depth with product-minded execution.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasCBSE Major : Computer Science, CBSE Major : Computer Science at Maharishi International Residential SchoolICSE Major : Computer Science, ICSE Major : Computer Science at Lakshmi School
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (3)
chips5
arduino-library5
arduino4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
raakeshkamal/ros-rrt
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
ShaastraWebops/HybridApp
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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