Vinayak Chettimada
Principal Research And Development Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVinayak Chettimada is a Principal R&D Engineer with 11+ years focused on Bluetooth BR/EDR and Low Energy protocol stacks, real-time systems, and low-power embedded software for resource-constrained devices. Based in Bengaluru, he has driven Bluetooth controller design and maintenance for Nordic Semiconductor and is an original contributor and code owner for the Zephyr Project BLE controller supporting nRF5x chipsets. He combines state-machine based design and test-driven development to deliver scalable, secure firmware across multiple hardware architectures and RTOS environments. As a founder of SixOctets Systems, he blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial initiative, often working at the intersection of low latency processing and extreme power efficiency. Colleagues rely on him for collaborative feature design, conformance work, and pragmatic architecture choices that bridge research and product-grade implementations. His career reveals a rare depth in both Bluetooth protocol internals and production open-source stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bengaluru UniversityKV NAL, Bangalore
English, Norwegian, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil
Github Skills (29)
crossword9
bluetooth9
pulseaudio9
eagle9
weechat9
singing9
embedded8
dub8
wxwidgets8
pipewire8
hardware8
dac8
widgets7
xmake7
git-repository7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vkchettimada/hackrf_ble
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
vkchettimada/aayudha
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year
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