Parag Balbudhe
Associate Staff Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParag Balbudhe is an Associate Staff Software Engineer in Boston with a strong track record (over a decade across roles, three years in the current senior title) designing low-power wireless mesh and embedded firmware using C/C++ across bare-metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux. He specializes in industry-standard IoT protocols—OpenThread, Zigbee and Matter—actively shaping standards through committee participation and hands-on interoperability and certification work. At Silicon Labs he implemented core Zigbee stack features, dual-MAC and multiprotocol host-NCP solutions, and battery-saving coordinated listening and duty-cycle monitoring for constrained devices. An active contributor to the well-known OpenThread project, he has added RCP features and diagnostics and improved multipan and transmit timing behavior. He pairs deep protocol and radio-layer expertise with practical system validation experience (FCC/certification, end-to-end testing) and a commitment to mentoring new engineers.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Missouri-Kansas CityRashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
Github Skills (16)
ieee10
openthread10
embedded10
iot10
spin10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
spine10
diagnostics10
configuration-management9
mesh-network9
internet-of-things8
wireless8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openthread/openthread
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
OpenThread released by Google is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 2 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Parag contributed to the OpenThread project by implementing and modifying features related to the Radio Co-Processor (RCP) and diagnostic tools. This involved disabling features based on configuration (specifically for the NCP), fixing transaction ID caching, and adding a "diag stream" command to the diagnostics feature. The user also made the RCP transmit wait time configurable. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to multipan use cases.
networkingopenthreadiotgooglenest
suveshpratapa/connectedhomeip
Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Contributions:1 push in 9 months
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