Shoban Ramesh
HID Firmware Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShoban Ramesh is a firmware engineer with nine years of experience designing embedded systems and HID firmware for consumer electronics, currently contributing at Apple in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCLA and brings deep C and Python expertise alongside hands-on experience with robotics, I2C sensor integration, and manufacturing test automation. Prior roles at Samsung and Qualcomm sharpened his product firmware and modem experience, while his early work at Dexter Industries involved authoring C/Python libraries and community support for Raspberry Pi robotics. He combines customer-facing troubleshooting with low-level firmware development, often translating field feedback into robust firmware fixes. An open-source contributor, he developed sensor libraries and a Python GUI for the popular GoPiGo robot, reflecting a practical blend of hobbyist robotics and production engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge prototyping, test infrastructure, and scalable product firmware.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bala Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of EngineeringMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (8)
c1710
i2c10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
raspberry-pi9
robotics9
python8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DexterInd/GoPiGo
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
The GoPiGo Robot for Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shoban primarily contributed to the development of a C library for a line sensor used with a GoPiGo robot. Their work involved writing code to interface with the sensor, read data, and provide example programs for reading sensor values. They also updated existing code, added examples, and addressed some potential input errors. The user also worked on a Python GUI for the line sensor.
raspberry-pigopigostemroboticsrobotics-programming
DexterInd/Adafruit-WebIDE
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 13 days
simple-editorraspberry-piraspberryanywhere
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