Summary
Ritu Pal is an Engineering Technical Leader with 8 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of silicon, Linux platforms, and embedded systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Cisco after a multi-year systems software tenure at NVIDIA. She brings deep firmware-to-kernel expertise, having built connected embedded devices early in her career (including a deployed gamma-ray exposure monitor) and advanced platform software for GPU systems. Trained in electronics and communications from VNIT and with cryptography coursework at Stanford, she combines low-level systems thinking with security-minded design. Known for bridging hardware constraints and large-scale software delivery, she excels at turning complex silicon and platform requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Cryptography , Cryptography at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, French