Izhar Ahmad

Junior Firmware Engineer with 2+ years of experience in embedded firmware development for bare-metal and RTOS-based systems. Experienced with ARM, RISC-V, and PIC18 microcontrollers, hardware-software integration, and low-level debugging.

Train To Hire - Xcelerium - Remote, Pakistan

(2026-02 - 2026-06)

• Developed bare-metal interrupt handling system for CVA6 RISC-V processor.
• Implemented UART HAL layer with baud rate configuration.
• Built complete bootloader and startup sequence (assembly + linker scripts) that initializes CPU from reset, manages exception handling.

Summer Internship - DuneAI - Lahore, Pakistan

(2025-06 - 2025-08)

• Designed and optimized an STM32-based motor driver PCB for a RoboCup robot, reducing cost by 40%.
• Developed firmware with PID-based motor speed control.

BSc - Electrical Engineering (Electronics) - Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (2022-09 - 2026-06) Topi, Swabi