Pranali Gaikwad

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Staff Embedded Engineer at JPMorgan Chase · Embedded systems · embedded Linux, RTOS

JPMorgan Chase
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
VIT Vellore
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

13 years in software engineering, the last 2 at JPMorgan Chase, where I work on the firmware team. Shipped 20 launches on the firmware team without a rollback. Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Intel and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Most at home with Bluetooth LE and hardware bring-up. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Skills
RTOSBluetooth LEChardware bring-upembedded LinuxARM Cortex-M
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Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: embedded systems and C

Topics
embedded systems, hardware bring-up, embedded Linux
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Two calls a month
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Engineers moving into leadership

13 years of embedded systems. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Bengaluru, Indiachardware bring-upembedded linux
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Experience

  1. Staff Embedded Engineer
    Feb 2025 - Present
    JPMorgan Chase · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 25 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Grew the firmware team from 6 to 39 engineers.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2025
    Intel · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the RTOS service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 20% in two quarters.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 848ms to 122ms.
  4. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2017 - Apr 2020
    Siemens · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the firmware team from 6 to 33 engineers.
    • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
    Morgan Stanley · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 4.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 25% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. VIT Vellore
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    2009 - 2013

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