Nihal Gonsalves

Software Engineer @ Memfault

About Nihal Gonsalves

Nihal Gonsalves is a software engineer and co-founder of Memfault, a company dedicated to enhancing the productivity of firmware engineers through its innovative observability platform for connected devices.

Nihal Gonsalves Professional Background

Nihal Gonsalves is a software engineer with a broad range of experience in crash reporting, cloud-based software delivery, and performance monitoring infrastructure. He has contributed significantly to these areas while working at Pebble, refining his technical skills and ideas at Oculus and Fitbit over several years. His career in these roles provided a strong foundation for his future entrepreneurial endeavors.

Nihal Gonsalves at Pebble

Nihal Gonsalves was part of the embedded software team at Pebble, where he focused on critical areas like crash reporting, cloud-based software delivery, and performance monitoring infrastructure. His work at Pebble was crucial in helping the team conceive the idea of Memfault, which he later co-founded. His contributions aimed at transforming developers' capabilities in monitoring and debugging firmware issues, as well as improving the deployment of OTA updates.

Co-founding Memfault

In 2018, Nihal Gonsalves co-founded Memfault, a company dedicated to creating the first end-to-end observability platform for connected devices. His aim was to make firmware engineers as productive as software engineers. Memfault focuses on enabling developers to monitor devices, debug firmware issues, and deploy OTA updates efficiently. This initiative stems from his belief in transforming the way developers build and operate IoT and edge devices.

Nihal Gonsalves and Memfault's Mission

Nihal Gonsalves holds a vision of transforming the way developers build and operate IoT and edge devices. Through Memfault, he has been working to provide tools that allow developers to monitor devices, debug firmware issues, and deploy OTA updates with ease. This mission is driven by the goal of enabling firmware engineers to be as productive as their counterparts in software engineering, ultimately aiming to enhance productivity and efficiency in the field of connected devices.

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