Samit Basu
Principal Software Engineer at Heart Aerospace
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSamit Basu is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned technology leader with a PhD in Electrical Engineering and over 10 years of hands-on experience building mission-critical systems across aerospace, medical imaging, and security industries. He brings a rare blend of deep research pedigree—evidenced by 80+ patents and numerous journal and conference publications—and practical engineering, having led digital transformation and R&D teams up to C-suite level. Recently he has focused on fault-tolerant distributed control and embedded systems implemented in Rust, owning entire software stacks from device firmware to image reconstruction and distributed data processing. Samit is comfortable moving between individual contributor design work and executive strategy, and he’s known for fostering innovation through technical centers of excellence. Based in Los Angeles, he combines academic rigor with product-driven pragmatism, repeatedly translating advanced algorithms into deployed, safety-critical products.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Electrical Engineering, B.E Electrical Engineering at University of DelawarePhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bengali, French, English
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Github Skills (35)
immediate-mode10
imgui10
egui10
rust10
game-development10
synthesis9
fpga9
mri8
redpitaya8
firmware8
programming-language7
ocra6
cascade6
java6
cuda5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samitbasu/rust-hdl
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A framework for writing FPGA firmware using the Rust Programming Language
Contributions:2 reviews, 109 commits, 15 PRs in 4 months
firmwarerustsynthesisfpga-firmwareprogramming-language
samitbasu/rhdl
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A Hardware Description Language based on the Rust Programming Language
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 711 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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