About

Nanjayan Radhakrishnan is an accomplished Software Development Engineer at Amazon Lab126 with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in Embedded Software Development for Kindle products and has a strong foundation in System Software concepts. Nanjayan has a diverse range of experience, having previously worked as an Instrumentation Engineer in The Hindu Newspaper industry, where he programmed software to control processes in a real-time embedded environment. At Carnegie Mellon University, Nanjayan took Embedded specialization courses and system courses, where he gained practical experience in multiple processor Android Linux kernel scheduling, sensor and actuators low-level communication protocols, device drivers, energy-saving algorithms, and motor controllers. He also delved into the design of Operating systems to learn about memory management, file systems, and process management. Nanjayan has also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Student Researcher at CMU, where he designed DWM1001 Ultra-Wide Band radio tag hardware with nrf52832 microcontroller and a bright LED with Bluetooth firmware for localization of electronic gadgets. He also accomplished optimization of a curb detection algorithm in GeForce 1070 GPU and integrated Omnivision Ov10640 camera Input with NVIDIA Jetson TX2 board fielding Nvidia Serdes Interface card for 3D depth completion. Nanjayan has expertise in programming languages such as C, C++, Python, CUDA, OpenMP, Inter-Process MPI, and MATLAB. He is skilled in using tools and protocols like GDB, Shell, Git, UART, I2C, SPI, DMA, Caches, SIMD, Pthreads, Android Linux Kernel, pintos OS, OpenCV, EAGLE CAD, and MATLAB Simulink. He also has experience working with hardware such as ARM- Nucleo STM32, LPC 2148, Arduino IDE, Raspberry pi, Nvidia Jetson TX2, Nano, and AGX Xavier. Nanjayan is a driven individual who believes in hard work, perseverance, and a love for what he does. He is a self-motivated and pragmatic thinker, with excellent debugging skills. Nanjayan is always eager to take on new challenges and is constantly learning and improving his skills. His diverse experience and expertise make him a valuable asset to any organization.