Nitin Lakra — Software Engineer

Current Objective : Learning and getting hands on AI/ Deep Learning Stuff . Looking forward for a career shift and an opportunity in AI/ML Embedded Based Field i.e AIOT, Embedded AI Summary • Efficient with respect to programming in C, Data Structures. • Able to understand and develop the Linux Boot Process and Boot Loader. • Able to write device drivers: UART, GPS, I2C, SPI, ALSA, V4L2. • Able to configure and Compile Linux kernel for various development boards. • Able to build Cross Compiled tool chain for ARM. • Successfully bring-up the various boards with ARM processor. • Proficient in using development tools like RCS, SVN and GIT. • Efficient in Linux internals: IPC Mechanisms like pipes, FIFO, Message Queues, Shared Memory and synchronization Techniques like Semaphores. • Good Understanding of Socket programming and POSIX Threads. • Understanding of Android Internal • Cross-Compiler: Cross Native Compiler for ARM v7 architecture. • Tools : IDE (Source insight, Eclipse, C-tag, Android Studio) • Networking Tools: wire-shark, Trex, Ixia Technical Skills Programming: • Comfortable with respect to programming in C, C++, Python. • Having good understanding about GCC compiler and made a Cross-compiler Tool-Chain. • Able to debug complex C programs (GDB Debugger, Keil Debugger, Lauterbach Debugger, ADB). • Good Knowledge of OS (Thread X, Linux) and Ready for System Programming using C. Linux Internals and System Programming: • Able to do Linux System Programming with ease • Good Knowledge of Process Management, Memory Management and Process Scheduling. • Able to Customize and Install Linux for Development. • Able to install Linux Operating System for Development. Embedded Linux: • Able to understand the Linux Boot Process and Boot Loader. • Able to configure and Compile Linux kernel for Linux. • Successfully bring-up Beagle-bone Board, olinux-ino Board, Raspberry-pi Board, IMX27, IMX6 and worked on GPIO’s of these boards. • Able to port applications onto the ARM based devices using cross-complier on Linux. • Core Architecture level understanding of the ARM Embedded Processor. Inter Process Communication: IPC: Pipes, FIFO, Semaphores, Message Queue, Shared Memory, Mailbox. Process Management, Signal and Handlers. POSIX Threads, Sockets, System Calls. Linux Device Drivers: Able to understand Loadable Kernel Modules and its interfaces. Hands on Drivers: Spansion Flash Interface Driver, UART, GPS (NMEA), Watchdog, I2c, SPI and SRIO, Network driver (LLC Sub layer), Audio (ALSA), Camera(V4L2), FPGA Driver, Asic Driver, PCI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled Embedded Systems Engineer with expertise in Linux and device driver development.

Location: Rohtak, Haryana, India

Experience: 12 yrs

Skills

Embedded Systems
Linux

Career Highlights

Proficient in embedded systems and Linux internals.
Experienced in developing device drivers for various hardware.
Strong background in RTOS and system programming.

Work Experience

Google

Software Engineer (2 yrs)

Qualcomm

Senior Lead Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)

Cisco

Software Engineer III (2 yrs 4 mos)

BlueStacks

Member Of Technical Staff (1 yr 6 mos)

Vihaan Networks

Software Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)

Emblogic Embedded Technologies Pvt Ltd

Trainee(Embeeded Software Engineer) (11 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA at Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Maharshi Dayanand University

diploma at Modern Institute of Technology

at jyoti parkash sr. sec. school

Nitin Lakra

Software Engineer

Rohtak, Haryana, India12 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proficient in embedded systems and Linux internals.
Experienced in developing device drivers for various hardware.
Strong background in RTOS and system programming.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled Embedded Systems Engineer with expertise in Linux and device driver development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Embedded SystemsLinux

Other Skills

ALSA driverARMARM ArchitectureARM AssemblyARM Cortex-MBoard Bring-upCorporate FinanceDebug frameworkDebuggingDevice DriversDriver changesElectronicsEmbedded CEmbedded SoftwareFPGA image upgrade framework

About

Experience

12 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs

Current Experience

Google

Software Engineer

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

ARMARM ArchitectureBoard Bring-upDevice DriversDebuggingEmbedded C+7

Qualcomm

2 roles

Senior Lead Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

TECH LEAD OF TEAM
1. Handling transport driver from non secure to secure zone to provide and handle the communication path for non-secure client and secure client (for both vendor and system client)
2. Anti rollback feature handling
3. Trust zone service request handling
4. Debug framework of trustzone
5. Shared memory access layer between high level operating system and TZ(trust zone)

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Working with Core Security Group

Cisco

Software Engineer III

May 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · India · On-site

Worked with core Platform team for Nyquist 9300 platform
1. BRING UP OF COST reduction multiple platform where serdes line and phy were changed, bringing up of those and driver chnages
2. Module owner of transport driver from Asic ->cpu & cpu - >Asic (control packets low level transport layer driver)
3. FPGA image Upgrade framework

Bluestacks

Member Of Technical Staff

Nov 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

Worked for system services
1. Handle OpenEGLsV2 transformation to webgl/Google gl
2. Alsa /v4l2 driver and vritualize the device to be used via windows
3. OMX codec (soft codec)
4. Taud fish encryption to encryp native libraries to resolve code reverse engineering issue via Ida pro

Vihaan networks

Software Engineer

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Worked as part of the Platform team for a Base Transceiver System (BTS), focusing on low-level firmware and RTOS-level feature development.
Key responsibilities and contributions included:
RTOS Expertise: Developed and maintained features on ThreadX RTOS, including writing a custom framework to capture and dump the callback stack during abort/crash scenarios, significantly aiding post-mortem debugging.
Driver Development: Implemented I2C driver modules and Watchdog Timer (WDT) support — including a ThreadX watchdog driver and a soft watchdog layer for Linux-based RTOS environments.
Storage Interface: Worked on NMEA and Spansion NOR Flash integration, contributing to robust non-volatile storage handling.
Networking Stack: Contributed to network protocol layers by implementing features in the FTP and SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) stacks, ensuring reliable data transfer capabilities.
IPC mechanism and memory pooling design handling between 4 core processor when arm processor works as master and 3 dsp process as slave

Emblogic embedded technologies pvt ltd

Trainee(Embeeded Software Engineer)

May 2014 – Apr 2015 · 11 mos

1. PROJECT :
Linux system administration
2. PROJECT:
Multiple Data Compression and Encryption using Iterative Techniques
3. PROJECT:
Inter-process communication between multiple clients and server mechanism us-ing PIPES, FIFO, Shared Memory, Message-Queues
4. PROJECT:
Inter-process communication between clients and server mechanism by use of
threads and sockets, FTP:
5. PROJECT:
Linux OS based Character Drive
6. PROJECT:
Parallel Port Driver ( IEEE-1284 STANDARD)
7. PROJECT:
Serial Port Driver (RS - 232 STANDARD)
8. PROJECT:
TOOL CHAIN (CROSS-COMPILER)(NATIVE-COMPILER)(CROSS-NATIVE compiler)