Anand Kulkarni is a skilled and experienced firmware engineer with a strong background in embedded and real-time systems. With over 12 years of experience in this field, he has spent several years as a firmware developer for HP, designing and developing Embedded Controller firmware for HP Commercial Notebooks and server manageability firmware for HP servers. Kulkarni is proficient in C and C++ programming languages and has experience with ThreadX and Green Hills Integrity Real-Time Operating Systems on ARM processors. In addition, he has also worked with Linux kernel programming, developing device drivers and file system drivers. Kulkarni studied Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University, where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) degree with distinction.