MS ECE · CU Boulder · May 2026

Nimish Sabnis.

Engineering at the boundary of hardware and software. where timing is measured in nanoseconds and reliability isn't optional.

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firmware engineering
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About

Embedded engineer with a systems mindset. Bare-metal C to Linux kernel to automated validation. reliability is a design choice.

I'm a Master's student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at CU Boulder, graduating May 2026. My work focuses on embedded firmware, real-time systems, and test engineering. building things that run deterministically and fail predictably.

Most recently at Litepoint (a Teradyne company), I built CI-driven validation frameworks for wireless devices. Before that, I implemented Precision Time Protocol on an Ultrascale RFSoC with real-time Linux. nanosecond-level synchronization on hardware that doesn't forgive sloppy code.

Based · Boulder, CO
Status · Open to Summer 26 & full-time
Focus · Firmware, RTOS, Test Automation
Time precision
ns / PTP on Ultrascale
Kernel latency
−40%
DUT bring-up
+30% faster
Students mentored
15+ in BLE firmware
Work

Three roles. Across production test, research, and teaching. all embedded, all measured.

MAY 2025. AUG 2025

Firmware Engineering Intern

Litepoint (A Teradyne company) · San Jose, CA
  • Built Python test suites for DUTs, enabling repeatable system-level validation of wireless devices
  • Automated test execution via Jenkins CI/CD, accelerating DUT bring-up and debug by 30%
  • Developed pytest regression framework for conformance testing on new products over SPI
  • Collaborated with FW & HW teams to debug RF-level issues, shortening RCA by 25%
PythonJenkinspytestSPIRF validation
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AUG 2025. PRESENT

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Colorado Boulder
  • Mentor 15+ students developing event-driven firmware for BLE microcontrollers
  • Designed a Jenkins CI pipeline that compiles, runs, and auto-grades C assignments. reducing manual grading by 90%
BLEEmbedded CJenkinsEFR32
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NOV 2024. MAY 2025

Research Assistant

University of Colorado Boulder
  • Implemented Precision Time Protocol on Ultrascale FPGA with Linux. nanosecond-level precision
  • Configured Linux kernel with real-time patch, reducing latency by 40%
  • Wrote bash configuration scripts for GPS-based servers, improving sync by 90%
PTP / IEEE 1588Ultrascale RFSoCRT Linuxbash
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Projects

Things I've built. Real-time systems, state machines, and the occasional IP-PBX on QNX.

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Stack

The toolbox. Silicon to script.

Languages
  • C / C++
  • Python
  • Bash
  • MATLAB
Hardware
  • ARMv7 Cortex M4
  • ARMv8 Cortex A72
  • Ultrascale RFSoC
  • Silicon Labs EFR32
Protocols
  • SPI / I²C / UART
  • BLE
  • Ethernet · PTP
  • GPIO · JTAG
Platforms & Tools
  • FreeRTOS · QNX
  • Linux · RT kernel
  • Jenkins · pytest
  • Git · SVN · JIRA
Education
MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder · GPA 3.5 · May 2026
Previously
B.Tech, Electronics & Telecom.
DJ Sanghvi College · GPA 8.81 · Honors in 5G & IoT · Jun 2024
Publication

Published work.

PAPER

IoT-enabled smart Healthcare system with machine learning for real-time vital-sign monitoring and anomaly detection.

Peer-reviewed · Electronics & Telecommunication

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Contact

Let's build something
that has to work.

nisa8867@colorado.edu
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