Summary
Tushar 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.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
HSC, Science, HSC, Science at Fergusson College
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Pune Vidhyarthi Griha's College Of Engineering And Technology
SSC, SSC at Damani High School, Solapur