Summary
Sikenderali Ashraf is an embedded software engineer with nine years of experience bringing up and stabilizing ARM-based silicon and device platforms for leading tech companies, including Apple and Meta. He specializes in ROM and secure boot development, RTOS and C driver implementation, ARM TrustZone, PCB design, and low-level silicon debug, routinely using pre-silicon platforms to accelerate software readiness. At Apple he focused on turning new SoCs into stable OS platforms and worked closely with silicon designers to mitigate IP design impacts, and at Meta he applies that firmware expertise to augmented reality hardware. A UT Austin ECE graduate, he combines hands-on PCB and sensor gateway experience from academic projects with production-grade validation work from industry, and has a track record of reducing validation friction through reusable driver frameworks.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Hindi, Urdu, English