About

Hardik Patel is a highly skilled and experienced Embedded and Firmware Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). He is passionate about building innovative, user-friendly products that are helpful to people. Hardik is an expert in managing complete project activities, ensuring timely deliveries as per defined timelines and quality standards. He has proven success in managing projects and is a keen planner with strong skills in client relationship management. Hardik has a strong depth of knowledge in C programming and good experience in device drivers in Linux, RTOS, op-tee/tee arm trust zone, security, and bare metal. He has the ability to work on complex hardware with reverse engineering and has researched and developed 6lowpan and RPL library source code. Hardik has also developed Cryptography Drivers and their applications. Hardik has worked on multiple projects with different RTOS like FreeRTOS, Samsung Tizen RT, QUECTEL, and Micrium RTOS. He is an expert in Linux/OS/RTOS Programming with a strong understanding of threads, message queues, signals, and synchronization techniques like Semaphores and mutex. Hardik has experience in device driver development and porting and is an expert in Yocto projects. Hardik has experience in low power RF technologies ANT, BLE4.0, pure RF technology, and porting experience in different open-source Linux packages for any processor. He has reverse engineering and debugging skills and has network programming experience in TCP/IP and 6LoWPAN. Hardik has developed device drivers for I2C/SPI/UART/MMC-SDCARD, USIM and has worked with different platforms like NXP, TI, Amlogic, SILAB, Samsung ARTIK 053, STMicroelectronics, Marvell, Nordic, Quectel, and MICROCHIP. Hardik has a Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded Software from Oasis Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at einfochips and has experience in using development tools like Yocto, IAR IDE, STVD, KEIL ECLIPS, MPLAB, and SIMPLICITY STUDIO. Hardik has also worked with additional tools like Vector Cast, Lint, NRF Studio, Ant Ware, Beyond Compare, and Wire-Shark. He is proficient in using management tools like JIRA, SVN, GIT, GERRIT, BITBU