About

Nitin Mahajan is an experienced Engineering Manager at Broadcom Limited with over 22 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing software for embedded systems. He has 8 years of technical management experience in 802.11 firmware and host drive development, and 4 years of experience in embedded Linux-based product development in a start-up. Nitin also has 2 years of experience in debugging and triaging critical stability issues and driving software performance KPIs on ARM Cortex A9 and Cortex A7-based Android platforms. He has a thorough understanding and hands-on experience with ARM DS5 tools, especially Streamline, and has good exposure to CoreSight on-chip traces and debug and development of debugger scripts based on that. Nitin has hands-on experience in device driver, BSP development, and board bring-up for ARM and MIPS-based SoCs across OS platforms such as Embedded Linux 2.6.x, Win CE 5.0, µITRON, NetBSD 1.6. He also has a good understanding of Android Kit Kat and Jelly Bean Plus internals. Nitin has programming experience in C and C++ and has undergone corporate trainings in Combining Open Source Software into business and basics, Open Source Software: Copyrights, patents, and licenses, ZOOM Leadership Foundation and Leading People, Agile Project Management, and Scrum. In his previous roles, Nitin has significantly contributed to the product development of an Embedded Linux-based Net Console and has designed and developed system software as well as application software going into the product. He has also worked on the integration of OMAP35x overlay video rendering to work with Stagefright media framework in Android Froyo and submitted patch at rowboat. Nitin has also implemented a media player server based on GStreamer and an in-field software upgrade mechanism with features such as upgrade based on device authentication, failsafe upgrade, bootsw upgrade, upgrade from USB Mass storage, SD card, and online repository. Nitin has a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Power Engineering from Nagpur University and completed his SSC from Kendriya Vidyalaya. His relevant experience in the field is 22.45 years, and his tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Android, Integration, UI, and Software Engineer.