Rohit Ner
Software Engineer III at Google
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRohit Ner is a Software Engineer III based in Mumbai with nine years of hands-on experience building firmware, kernel drivers, and low-level system software for mobile SoCs and network offload cards at Google. He combines embedded systems expertise (BootROM, TF-A, UFS, SPI, PWM, DMA) with real-time robotics control and algorithm design from academic research, enabling robust hardware-software integration. Rohit has a track record of improving system robustness and thermal/vibration behavior in robotic platforms and shipping production drivers for Pixel teams. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced UX and CLI features for the popular colorls Ruby gem, adding flags, tab-completion, and bug fixes around git-ignored files. Curious and continually learning, he pairs an IIT Kharagpur Mathematics & Computing background with practical experience in automation, ROS simulation, and IoT device design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces elegant, low-level fixes that reduce system complexity and improve reliability.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
C.B.S.E, C.B.S.E at DAV Public School, New PanvelIntegrated M.Sc. [B.Sc(Hons.)+M.Sc.] Mathematics and Computing, Integrated M.Sc. [B.Sc(Hons.)+M.Sc.] Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Marathi, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
cli10
ruby10
command-line9
command-line-interface9
git9
ls8
testing8
terminal-application7
colors7
terminal-emulator7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
athityakumar/colorls
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rohit primarily contributed to adding and improving features related to the command-line interface of the `colorls` Ruby gem. They implemented functionalities like the `--help` and `--git-status` flags, enhancing the user experience. Additionally, the user worked on bug fixes, including resolving issues with git-ignored and partially ignored files, and improved tab completion support. Their contributions also involved refactoring and integrating code changes.
ruby-gemfontrubyeye-candyls
rohitner/Hacktoberfest
Oct 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:11 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years
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