Abhilash Hegde

About Abhilash Hegde

Highly experienced real-time embedded software engineer with extensive experience in real-time embedded software/firmware architecture, design, development, optimization, system integration & validation. Proven track record of owning & delivering end-to-end embedded software for 4G/5G wireless modems on commercial, R&D and asymmetric multicore platforms. Successfully led multiple product features from requirements to release. Strong experience in driving & collaborating with functionally diverse teams across geographies to ensure alignment & high-quality, on-time delivery of complex product features under tight deadlines. Onboarded & mentored team members, accelerating project deliverables. Authored software/test design proposals & contributed feature specs to industry standards.Software engineering skills with proficiency in C/C++ and python programming. Strong expertise in 4G/5G cellular technologies broad set of knowledge spanning physical layer, mac, L1/L2/L3 wireless protocols, call procedures and setups on both UE and base stations. A well rounded, seasoned engineer with passion to bring technologies to life, transform concepts to prototype to products. Specialties-4G, 5G, Layer 1, PHY/MAC architecture design, framework, scheduler, interface api and subsystem interfaces, programming HW interfaces and modem internals. real time embedded software/firmware for wireless cellular communication modems on UE and base stations. Programming on multi-core, multi-threaded memory constrained embedded systems, system integration, troubleshooting wireless system issues and product bring ups.Key Domain skills-Wireless communications, 5G NR, 4G LTE, LTE-U, MAC, Layer 1 baseband, 4G/5G Call procedures, real time embedded software programming, Multicore DSPs, Inter-process communication, Matlab simulation, system integration, phy/mac test methodologies,Programming languages: C, C++, PythonOperating Systems: Windows, Linux, Fedora Core, Ubuntu, TI DSP BIOSHardware Platform: Qualcomm DSPs, Tensillica DSPs, TCI6488 (TI Faraday DSP)Development Tools: Code Composer Studio, MATLAB, Octave, MSVC++Debug Tools: GDB, Valgrind, Trace 32, coredump analysisTest Equipment’s/Tools: Keysight UXM, QXDM, Omnipeek, Wireshark, iperf, Sanjole, Agilent Spectrum Analyser, Code Repository/Concurrent Version Tools: CVS, GIT, Perforce

Experience

1. Staff Firmware Engineer

   GreenWave™ Radios

   Aug 2025 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

Education

• Vijaya College, RV road Bangalore

  2nd PUC, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths

  2002 — 2003

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  BE, Electronics & Communication Engineering

  2003 — 2007

• University of Southern California

  Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering

  2013 — 2014

• St Xaviers Senior Secondary High School, Chandigarh

  10th Std I.C.S.E

  2000 — 2001

Skills

• Simulations
• Embedded Software
• Bios
• Real Time
• Wireless
• Dsp
• Scheduling
• Debugging
• Embedded C
• Signal Processing
• Linux
• C++
• Digital Signal Processors
• Ofdm
• C
• Baseband
• Matlab
• Mimo
• Framework Design
• Layer 1
• Dsp Code Optimzation
• Embedded Systems
• Ccs