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Keerthi Varma

Embedded systems engineer in the making

Final-year ECE student who designs IoT hardware and firmware. Built 4 working prototypes on ESP32 and STM32 and completed a VLSI design internship.

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh · Open to embedded & VLSI roles

Projects

Smart Energy Meter

IoT energy meter that sends live usage to a mobile dashboard.

  • Measured load with ±2% error against a reference meter
  • Sends alerts on WhatsApp when usage crosses a limit

ESP32 · MQTT · C · Node-RED

Gesture Controlled Robot

Robot car driven by hand gestures using an accelerometer glove.

  • Wireless control up to 40 m with under 50 ms latency
  • Debugging with logic analyser cut packet loss from 12% to 2%
  • Won 2nd place at the department project expo

STM32 · MPU6050 · nRF24L01

4-bit ALU on FPGA

ALU with 8 operations implemented and tested on a Basys-3 board.

Verilog · Vivado · FPGA

Experience

VLSI Design Intern

May 2026 – Jul 2026

SiliconEdge Labs

  • Wrote and verified Verilog RTL for a UART controller in Vivado
  • Ran timing analysis and fixed 12 setup violations
  • Documented the test bench used by the next intern batch

Publications

Low-Power FPGA Implementation of a Real-Time ECG Noise Filter

Jul 2026

IEEE ICCCNT 2026 · Accepted · K. Varma, S. Rao, Dr. P. Lakshmi

FIR filter on Artix-7 using 38% fewer LUTs than the reference design at 250 Hz sampling

Skills

Hardware

ESP32 · STM32 (ARM Cortex-M) · Arduino · PCB design (KiCad) · Oscilloscope

Programming

Embedded C · FreeRTOS (RTOS) · Verilog · Python · MATLAB

Protocols

UART · I2C · SPI · MQTT

Education

B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering

Aug 2023 – May 2027

Andhra University College of Engineering · CGPA 8.9/10

Class XII (MPC)

Jun 2021 – Apr 2023

Narayana Junior College, Visakhapatnam · Percentage: 95.8%

Certifications

  • Embedded Systems Essentials · NPTEL
  • 2nd place, ECE Project Expo · Andhra University

Contact

Open to opportunities. Email is the fastest way to reach me.