Vikram Dattu
Staff Software Engineer at Espressif Systems
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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RockstarVikram Dattu is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building embedded and multimedia systems, currently advancing IoT and audio capabilities at Espressif Systems. He brings deep C expertise and SIMD optimization experience from earlier work on HEVC and audio codecs at Imagination Technologies, and now contributes to prominent open-source projects like esp-idf and the esp-adf audio framework. His contributions include core audio pipeline improvements, HLS live-stream support, memory and ring-buffer optimizations, and practical bug fixes across networking and OTA subsystems. Comfortable across low-level performance tuning and higher-level IoT features, he pairs systems-level rigor with a curiosity for AI and neural nets. Outside work he’s an avid chess player who enjoys delving into developer communities like Stack Overflow and Quora, reflecting a continual appetite for problem-solving and learning.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
ss10
ssl10
http-streaming10
freertos10
sslv310
audio-processing10
c1110
c1710
iot10
http-client10
sys10
esp3210
embedded10
smtp9
smtps9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-adf
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Espressif Audio Development Framework
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 25 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Vikram Dattu primarily focused on enhancing the Espressif Audio Development Framework. Their contributions centered around adding and improving audio element functionalities, including callback functions and support for live streaming via HLS playlists. Key changes involved core code modifications, particularly within the audio pipeline, ring buffer management, and HTTP stream implementations to support features like playlist parsing and memory management. These changes expanded the framework's capabilities for audio recording, playback, and stream processing, enhancing its usability within an embedded systems context.
webradioespressifaudiodacdevelopment-framework
espressif/esp-idf
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 41 commits, 21 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vikram primarily contributed to the `esp-idf` repository by fixing bugs, adding new functionalities, and optimizing existing code. They addressed issues related to HTTP client redirection, OTA image size limitations with secure boot, and attachment handling in an SMTP email client. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the logging level in spi_master and fixed documentation and examples.
espressifdevelopment-frameworkesp-idfiotesp32
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