Rohit Malaga
Wireless Staff Engineer at MediaTek
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRohit Malaga is a Wireless Staff Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience designing and shipping customer-facing Wi‑Fi and embedded networking systems, currently focused on Wi‑Fi 7 (MLO) at MediaTek. He blends deep firmware and systems expertise—upgrading over a million DOCSIS devices and leading RDK‑B integrations—with hands‑on contributions to open-source networking projects like Open Network Linux, where he implemented Open Optical Monitoring features. Rohit has led geographically distributed teams to deliver automotive and broadband simulation and validation toolchains, and has driven certification efforts with CableLabs and the Wi‑Fi Alliance. Comfortable liaising with SoC vendors and OEMs, he pairs technical curiosity in ML, robotics, and autonomous-driving protocols with an MBA from Indiana University to align engineering outcomes with product and business goals.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at The University of Texas at DallasHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at D.A.VJawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
Hindi, Telugu, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (5)
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sftp9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Open Network Linux - An Operating System for Bare Metal Switches
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Rohit contributed to the Open Network Linux project, focusing on the Open Optical Monitoring (OOM) initiative. Their work involved integrating OOM functionality, including port listing and SFP module information retrieval. They modified code related to EEPROM reading, with the primary goal of retrieving and displaying EEPROM data from SFP modules. Additional modifications focused on platform management related to PSUs and Fans, with additional code added to monitor status.
bare-metallinuxoperating-system
rohitmalaga/OpenNetworkLinux
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
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