Seeking Spring 2027 co-op · Firmware & embedded
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I write C for STM32 and ESP32, move data over I²C, SPI and UART, and debug with JTAG, a scope and a logic analyzer. MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Northeastern, Springer-published, with two patents.
BOSTON, MA
01 · About
I'm an embedded firmware engineer and an MS student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, concentrating in Computer Systems and Software. Most of my work lives where code meets circuits: C and Python on microcontrollers, sensors on I²C, SPI and UART, and debugging with JTAG, oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
Before Boston, I studied Electronics Engineering at Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management in Nagpur. In a four-person research team I wrote the STM32 firmware for a solar-powered UV-tracking wearable that became a Springer publication. At MaprGo I built IoT devices whose firmware improved sensor accuracy by 25% and energy efficiency by 30%. I'm also a named inventor on two patents.
At Northeastern I've pushed CUDA kernels to a 920× speedup, published an open-source hardware-testing library on PyPI, and I now mentor undergraduates as a graduate TA in the embedded systems lab.
02 · Projects
Firmware, IoT devices, TinyML and GPU performance work, from coursework to open source.
Parallelized 2D heat-flow simulation and Sobel edge detection with OpenMP on CPUs and custom CUDA kernels on an NVIDIA P100, then profiled with Linux perf and nvprof. Found 49% vs. 11% LLC cache-miss rates across workloads and ~87% of GPU runtime spent on PCIe transfers.
Real-time heart rate and SpO₂ monitoring: an ESP32 BLE server streams readings to a Python client with live plots and CSV logging. Runs on a MAX30102 sensor or simulated data, with toggletest-hw hardware tests.
An end-to-end 1D CNN pipeline trained in PyTorch on 21,550 heartbeats from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database, then quantized to TensorFlow Lite for an edge target.
STM32 firmware in C for a solar-powered wearable with embedded UV sensors: ADC sampling, SPI/I²C sensor communication, interrupt-driven acquisition and sensor calibration, with threshold-based alerts for sun exposure. Validated under variable sunlight and published by Springer.
An ESP32 smart dashboard in C++ that calls multiple REST APIs over Wi-Fi, parses the JSON and shows the combined real-time data on a single display.
Embedded C firmware receives commands from an HC-05 module over UART and switches a 4-channel relay, giving wireless on/off control of up to four appliances at low cost.
An autonomous Arduino robot that uses ultrasonic sensing and Embedded C firmware to detect and steer around obstacles.
A scalable order-tracking and analytics system on AWS, with ETL pipelines and real-time workflows that monitor order delays and analyze regional sales.
03 · Experience
Teaching, research and industry roles since 2023.
Northeastern University · Embedded Systems & Digital Electronics Lab · Boston, MA
Aerovania Private Limited · Nagpur, India
MaprGo · Bengaluru, India
Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management · Nagpur, India
AICTE NEAT · India (virtual)
04 · Research
Peer-reviewed research and two patents in hardware product design.
Presented at the Sixth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2025), organized by IETE Delhi Centre, and published in the Springer proceedings in 2026.
Joshi, P.K., Rathi, V., Soni, S., Shilna, K.V. (2026). Solar Powered Wearable Device for Tracking UV Exposure. In: Kumar, S., Shorif Uddin, M., Rawat, T.K. (eds) Sixth Congress on Intelligent Systems. CIS 2025. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1825. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-18132-9_6
Design Patent No. 407852-001
Utility Patent No. 202421042659
05 · Skills
From bare-metal firmware to the GPUs and cloud services around it.
06 · Education
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering · Computer Systems and Software
B.Tech, Electronics Engineering
07 · Contact
I'm looking for firmware, embedded systems and IoT roles where I can work close to the hardware. I'm based in Boston and happy to talk.