Sagar Dev Achar Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designing Mission Critical and Fail-Safe Reactive Embedded Systems

Assisted professors and evaluated students in the following courses:• Digital Design• Database Management Systems (Theory and Laboratory)

• Researched methods for performance improvement of security protocols by cryptographic accelerators.• Designed FPGA / ASIC implementation of cryptographic primitives and performed security and resource analysis.• Explored the domain of approximate computing architectures for ciphering, hashing and authentication algorithms.• Developed approximate and accurate hardware implementations for algorithms such as SHA-512 and AES-128.• Proposed novel algorithms for lightweight cryptography on edge devices to enable secure communication.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Designed an IEC61851-1 compliant (self-test) communication hardware for CCS2-Coupled EVSE Apparatus.• Assisted the development of proprietary IoT hardware based on AVR / ESP microcontrollers.• Worked on a variety of projects using hardware interfaces like UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, RS-485 and Ethernet.• Developed an Android Application for a proprietary IoT product line using Google Cloud Platform.• Developed applications using protocols like HTTP, mDNS, MQTT, LoRa over GSM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.