Portfolio
Sainath Chenna
Embedded Software Engineer
Embedded Software Engineer with hands-on experience in bare-metal firmware development, CAN/UART/SPI/I2C protocol implementation, and real-time system design on PIC18F4580 microcontrollers. Skilled in interrupt-driven drivers, low-level register programming, Linux IPC, and RTOS concepts. Completed 8+ embedded projects end-to-end, from hardware bring- up to protocol debugging with oscilloscope and logic analyzer.
Experience
Advanced Embedded Systems Trainee
Emertxe Information Technologies — Bengaluru
- —NSDC / Skill India certified program aligned with Electronics Sector Skill Council (QP ELE/Q1501).
- —Built 8+ hands-on projects covering bare-metal firmware on PIC18F4580, CAN protocol, Linux IPC, and FreeRTOS
- —concepts — completing the full cycle from peripheral bring-up to system integration.
- —Implemented interrupt-driven peripheral drivers with circular buffers (~512-byte depth) for fault-tolerant data
- —handling; configured registers for UART at 9600–115200 baud, SPI at 4 MHz, and I2C at 100 kHz.
- —Debugged real-time firmware issues using oscilloscope and logic analyzer; verified timing margins across multiple
- —nodes under load.
Future Skills Intern
AcenAAr Technologies Pvt Ltd
- —Completed a 4-month government-recognized internship under Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education
- —(APSCHE), aligned with industry standards for embedded systems and IoT firmware development.
- —Worked on sensor interfacing and data acquisition pipelines, reinforcing low-level hardware-software integration and
- —real-time data handling skills.
- —Certificate No: AT-IN-AP-202536070534 | Issued: 12-04-2025
Expertise
Languages: C (Advanced)
C++ (OOP)
Data Structures & Algorithms
Microcontrollers: PIC18F4580
8051 — GPIO
Timers
ADC
UART
SPI
I2C
PWM
DMA
Watchdog (WDT)
bare-metal
Protocols & Interfaces: CAN
UART
SPI
I2C
Interrupts
EEPROM
RTC
RTOS & Firmware: FreeRTOS (tasks
queues
semaphores)
HAL concepts
bootloader fundamentals
real-time firmware
OS & Systems: Linux: process control
IPC (pipes
signals)
system calls
shell scripting
Tools & IDEs: MPLAB X IDE
XC8 Compiler
GCC
GDB
Vim
Makefiles
CMSIS (basic familiarity)
Debug & Hardware: Logic Analyzer
Oscilloscope
JTAG/GDB
Multimeter
Education
B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering
Kuppam Engineering College (JNTUA)
2021 — 2025
Intermediate (MPC)
Saikrupa Jr College, Dharmavaram
2019 — 2021
Class X
BSR Municipal High School, Dharmavaram
2018 — 2019