Vinayak Kariappa Chettimada
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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RockstarVinayak Chettimada is a Principal R&D Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of embedded-systems experience specializing in Bluetooth BR/EDR and Low Energy protocol stacks for low-power, resource-constrained devices. He applies state-machine driven design, test-driven development, and RTOS expertise to build secure, low-latency, scalable firmware across multiple hardware architectures. As a code owner and consultant on Nordic Semiconductor’s open-source Bluetooth LE controller, he contributes to the widely used nRF Connect SDK, including improvements to the nrf5340_audio app and refactoring of audio time synchronization. He founded SixOctets Systems, combining product-minded engineering with hands-on R&D. Known for pragmatic protocol-level insight, he routinely turns complex real-time and power constraints into reliable production code.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
c1710
bluetoothle10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
bluetooth10
zephyr10
rtc9
timer9
timers9
real-time-clock9
nrf538
i2s7
documentations6
documentation6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 100 reviews, 7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vinayak primarily contributes to the nRF Connect SDK, focusing on the nrf5340_audio application, improving the Bluetooth controller implementation and making modifications to time synchronization. Their work includes refactoring the sync timer and resolving interface errors related to the audio sync timer. The user also updates dependencies and configurations for the SDK, alongside modifying the documentation.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
cvinayak/sdk-zephyr
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
NCS downstream of https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years 5 months
ncsrtoszephyr-rtoscsharpdownstream
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