Utkarsh Verma
Full Stack Embedded Developer

Biography

My fascination with technology has propelled me onto various projects spanning hardware and software developments. I have come up with numerous systems of everyday utility, gathering a diverse skill-set to help me approach problems from a unique viewpoint. I am at my best when I get my hands dirty building something. I look forward to new challenges and devising innovative solutions.

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Interests

Low-level Languages
Embedded Systems
Computer Architecture
Software Development
Linux
Internet of Things
Static Websites

Education

B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering,

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacuring, Kancheepuram

Skills

Electronics

PCB Design, Arduino, IoT, Prototyping
Linux

Software Development, Continuous Integration, Automation
Programming

Go, C, Assembly, BASH, Python, MATLAB, NodeJS, Verilog, Rust, Java
Web Development

HTML, CSS, JS, Hugo, SCSS
Writing

Markdown, LaTeX

Experience

Junior Embedded Systems Engineer
Dextroware Devices Dec 2020 – Mar 2021
Worked at an assistive technology startup. Designed the schematic and prototype for a hands-free input device. Also did the R&D for the next stage of work. Extended my experience with Atmel MCUs and RF circuits.

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Full-stack Developer
Darmiyaan Dec 2020
Developed a static, multilingual website for the Darmiyaan podcast. It is highly performant and prioritizes accessibility and SEO.
Leader - Communications Team
MaRS, IIITDM Dec 2020 – Mar 2021
Worked on the communications aspect of the rover and researched on long-range communications.
Student Contributor
Google Code-in Nov 2017 – Jan 2018
Got introduced to FOSS and contributed to various open-source projects under OpenWISP. Became familiar with software development. Finished in the Top 10 participants under OpenWISP.

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Accomplishments

Robocon 2020
IIT Delhi Jan 2020 – Mar 2020
Co-founded and led a team of 6 undergraduates. Designed two non-humanoid robots which scored 98/100 points at Stage 1 of the national level competition.
Micromouse Competition
IIT Madras Jan 2020
Reached the finals with our maze solver in Shaastra 2020.

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Maker Sponsorship
DFRobot Jan 2017
Received sponsorship for my articles and personal projects.

Projects

Interfacing OLED Display with ATmega in Assembly

Dec 2021

A project written in assembly where an OLED display and SD-card modules are interfaced with ATmega328P using SPI and I2C.

Skills

AVR Assembly, Prototyping
Flight Controller

Oct 2021 – Present

A DIY flight controller for drones centred around an Arduino. It is meant to be a cheap alternative to ready-made flight controllers.

Skills

Arduino, Prototyping, Control Systems
8-bit Computer

Mar 2021

A fully-functioning 8-bit computer built on breadboards. It has its own instruction set and a bootloader which are programmed using Arduino.

Skills

Arduino, Prototyping, Assembly
Holonomic Drive Robots
Mar 2020

Developed two holonomic drive robots. These are designed to play Robo rugby as per the norms of Robocon 2020.

Skills

Robotics, 3D modelling, Prototyping
Line Follower Robot
Mar 2018

A robot built up from scratch which has PIC16F84A as the brain, coded in Basic C. It uses software-generated PWM to control motor drivers.

Skills

PCB Design, C
dwmblocks-async
Oct 2021

An asynchronous, CPU efficient status bar for dwm (Linux) written in C. It utilises Linux specific constructs like epoll, signals and pipes.

Skills

C, Linux
Losant Temp Sensor App
Feb 2018

An app for Mongoose OS which periodically sends ESP32’s temperature readings to Losant’s servers for plotting a graph.

Skills

IoT, JS
ESPer
Dec 2017

An easy-to-make, mini-sized, DIY development board for ESP32 SoC. It is an open-source project available on GitHub.

Skills

PCB Design, IoT, Prototyping
BluFi
Aug 2017

A DIY Bluetooth audio adapter for making wired headsets or speakers wireless. It also provides a wireless microphone.

Skills

PCB Design, Prototyping
Convertendo
Jul 2017

A mini audio adapter which makes any wired earphone compatible with your devices.

Skills

Prototyping
AR Tag Detection

Feb 2021

MATLAB project done as a part of Digital Signal Processing course.

Skills

Computer Vision, MATLAB
BitBanged
May 2020

A static blog fully optimized for performance and search engines. Also employs its dedicated commenting system using Staticman.

Skills

HTML, SCSS, JS, Hugo, Continuous Integration, NodeJS, Markdown, LaTeX
qGmail
Apr 2020

A command-line tool, written in Go, for fetching data from Gmail servers using Gmail API. Uses Go reflection to auto generate CLI from the API schema.

Skills

Go, Software Development, Continuous Integration

Electronics

Linux

Programming

Web Development

Writing

Junior Embedded Systems Engineer

Full-stack Developer

Leader - Communications Team

Student Contributor

Robocon 2020

Micromouse Competition

Maker Sponsorship