Tushar Aherkar
Senior Lead Engineer at Qualcomm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolTushar Aherkar is a Senior Lead Engineer based in Bengaluru with 8 years of embedded systems and firmware experience, now leading low-level engineering at Qualcomm after a multi-year tenure at SanDisk. He specializes in writing drivers and firmware for multicore, multithreaded environments—designing high-performance queues, mailboxes, IPC, and robust RTOS-based solutions for storage and compute platforms. Deep debugging expertise with JTAG, logic analyzers, and vendor toolchains enables him to diagnose complex hardware–software interactions across devices from mobile to automotive and XR. He combines hands-on implementation on ARC processors and MQX RTOS with a systems-level view of performance (clocks, synchronization, watchdogs), and has repeatedly delivered production features that run at scale on billions of devices. An educator at heart, he began as a teaching assistant and brings that clarity to architecture reviews and mentoring.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHSC, Science, HSC, Science at Fergusson CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Pune Vidhyarthi Griha's College Of Engineering And TechnologySSC, SSC at Damani High School, Solapur
Github Skills (8)
mir3
sentiment-analysis3
natural-language-processing2
classification2
python2
keras2
tensorflow1
keras-neural-networks1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tusharaherkar/tusharaherkar.github.io
Jun 2018 - May 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
tusharaherkar/SDN-Traffic-Management
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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