Summary
Jitesh Shah is a Software Engineering Manager at Tesla with 15 years of deep systems and firmware experience, specializing in ARM-based embedded systems, Linux kernel and system programming, and bootloader/kernel firmware for Android. He progressed from hands-on firmware and security work—designing TrustZone-based solutions and an isolated TrustZone OS during his MS—to senior engineering and leadership roles delivering production firmware at Tesla, Samsung, Athos, Marvell, and NVIDIA. Proficient in C, Python, and GNU build tooling, he combines low-level debugging and kernel expertise with practical exposure to ARM virtualization and TrustZone security. Based in California, he is known for shipping robust firmware across ARMv5–v8 platforms and for bootstrapping Fedora on ARM early in his career—an indicator of both tooling savviness and carrier-grade attention to system reproducibility.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, CS, MS, CS at North Carolina State University
BE, Computer engineering, BE, Computer engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology