Robert Ghilduta

San Francisco Bay Area United States

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Robert Ghilduta is an experienced embedded firmware and security engineer with 13 years building high-performance wireless systems, Linux kernel drivers, and cloud-managed networking products in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the primary firmware engineer on Meraki/Cisco’s first cloud-controlled 802.11ac access point, driving driver modifications, platform bring-up, and VPN acceleration using hardware crypto. His background spans low-level SDR and bladeRF firmware contributions, VHDL/FPGA work, high-speed PCB and signal-integrity design, and practical information-security skills including memory forensics, reverse engineering, and fuzzing. Comfortable bridging hardware and software, he has shipped production wireless modems and designed custom TDD MACs while also contributing to notable open-source SDR projects. Colleagues rely on him for deep kernel internals expertise, pragmatic performance improvements, and hands-on mentorship during hiring and technical interviews.

12 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's and Master's, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's and Master's, Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology

Github Skills (16)

firmware10

embedded10

c-language10

c-programming10

cprogramming-language10

sys10

sdl10

hal9

spi9

abstraction-layer9

serial-communication9

i2c9

digital-signal-processing7

fpga7

cmake7

Programming languages (5)

C++VHDLCJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

Nuand/bladeRF

Jun 2013 - Sep 2022

bladeRF USB 3.0 Superspeed Software Defined Radio Source Code

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer

Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 365 commits in 9 years 4 months

Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the firmware and low-level software development for a Software Defined Radio (SDR) project, specifically focusing on the bladeRF platform. Their work involved implementing and improving device control features, including support for DAC, Si5338, and GPIO register access. They also focused on adding new functionality, such as supporting the XB-200 and XB-300 expansion boards, enabling packet mode operation, and implementing code related to an integrated ADC module.

bladerfsoftware-defined-radiodefineddfuusb

osmocom/gr-osmosdr

Jun 2018 - Apr 2021

Mirrored from https://gitea.osmocom.org/sdr/gr-osmosdr

Role in this project:

Embedded Systems Engineer

Contributions:15 commits in 2 years 10 months

Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the `bladerf` integration within the `gr-osmosdr` project, modifying the code to interact with the libbladeRF hardware. Their work involved updating the libbladeRF library, configuring channel enabling and disabling, setting gain modes, and adjusting sample calculations. The user also implemented changes related to version checking and shared pointer usage, showing a focus on stability and compatibility within the project.

rtlsdrsoftware-defined-radiodacrtl-sdrgnuradio

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