Nagesh K

About Nagesh K

NPI lead and Embedded Software Engineer with 17+ years leading cross-functional NPIs, chip bring-ups, and secure firmware programs for IoT and multimedia products. Proven success driving roadmaps, managing dependencies and risks across hardware, firmware, validation teams, and delivering production ready silicon and customer reference solutions. Deep hands-on expertise in secure boot, OTA firmware flows, embedded Linux, device drivers, cloud connectivity (AWS/Azure), and customer-facing engagement.

Experience

1. Npi Lead

   NXP Semiconductors

   Jul 2019 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Own technical NPI execution for product family: plan launch roadmaps, define milestones, chip use cases, establish readiness gates, and coordinate checkpoints across silicon, board, firmware, validation, QA to achieve production readiness.• Led RT700 chip bring up program: created bring up plans, coordinated global team resources and enabled customer evaluation platforms after first silicon.• Designed and executed power measurement and characterization program for new SoC generation: defined measurement methodology, coordinated test and product engineering, analyzed data, and delivered reports to drive power optimization and product tradeoffs.• Act as primary technical liaison for global customers: run technical review meetings, capture requirements and product gaps, manage escalations, and deliver integration guidance and reference artifacts to accelerate customer design in.

Education

• Stanford University

  Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

  2017 — 2018

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering