Firmware • sensing • control • secure connected systems
Embedded-systems engineer and researcher with 15+ years of experience across real-time firmware, embedded DSP, robotics, industrial communications, edge computing, and secure cyber-physical systems.
Selected engineering work
Each project connects technical ownership to architecture, implementation, validation, and a tangible research or deployment artifact.
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Secure agricultural IoT
Designed and deployed a three-node system for real-time nitrate, soil-moisture, and environmental monitoring, with signed and encrypted telemetry, fault handling, and C#/.NET visualization.
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Embedded DSP & instrumentation
Built synchronized actuation and acquisition firmware for ultrasonic structural monitoring, including embedded signal processing, wireless communication, OLED interfacing, and hardware bring-up.
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Aircraft structural monitoring
Developed a laser-excitation and ultrasonic sensing platform with synchronized acquisition, embedded processing, wireless data transfer, and a custom Qt application for control and visualization.
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Industrial embedded products
Developed firmware for panel meters, MPPT solar chargers, queue systems, and flood early-warning nodes, including device drivers, deterministic control, communications, and field debugging.
Additional hands-on systems
Smaller projects and engineering capabilities that extend the featured work across robotics, automation, machine control, hydroponics, and reproducible firmware delivery.
Raspberry Pi • STM32 • FreeRTOS • UART • rclc
Configured a Raspberry Pi micro-ROS Agent and Python ROS 2 subscriber, then implemented an STM32 C publisher inside an RTOS task using rclc executor and timer logic.
Raspberry Pi 5 • PySide • GPIO • Camera • Relay / Contactor
Developed a touchscreen conveyor controller with proximity sensing, delayed image capture, bidirectional motor control, active-low relay handling, reset logic, and runtime safety monitoring.
Raspberry Pi • PCA9685 • I2C • Servo control • Python
Implemented calibrated multi-axis motion using hardware-timed PWM, actuator range protection, coordinated joint movement, and timing control for repeatable positioning.
Raspberry Pi • H-bridge • Bluetooth • Camera • GPIO
Integrated DC-motor control, wireless input-event handling, live video streaming, and responsive motion logic while debugging end-to-end hardware and control timing.
ESP32-S3 • Modbus • MQTT/TLS • Sensors • Pump / light control
Integrated nitrate, chloride, temperature, and humidity sensing with secure telemetry, validation logic, OTA updates, and automated pump and grow-light control.
Git • YAML • Docker • CI/CD • Release artifacts
Established reproducible, version-controlled firmware workflows with containerized build environments, automated validation, and repeatable release-artifact generation.
Experience & education
Roles demonstrate increasing technical scope, from production firmware and instrumentation to research leadership and secure cyber-physical systems.
Brookings, South Dakota
South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota
South Dakota State University
Lalitpur, Nepal
Cosmos College of Management and Technology
Kathmandu, Nepal
Samadhan Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Measurement Robotics & Diagnostic AI Lab, KAIST
Jeonju, Republic of Korea
Jeonbuk National University
Lalitpur, Nepal
Real Time Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Technical capabilities
Core capabilities cover low-level firmware, real-time systems, control, communications, cybersecurity, data analysis, verification, and delivery automation.
Embedded C/C++, bare metal, FreeRTOS, tasks, queues, semaphores, ISR synchronization, DMA, device drivers, memory-mapped I/O
ARM Cortex-M, STM32, NXP/LPC, ESP32/ESP-IDF, Raspberry Pi, PIC, AVR, 8051
UART, SPI, I2C, ADC/DAC, PWM, USB CDC, CAN, BACnet, Modbus RTU, RS-232/485, TCP/IP, lwIP, MQTT/MQTTS, Wi-Fi, BLE
ROS 2, micro-ROS, motor and servo control, teleoperation, state machines, actuator control, sensor integration
CMSIS-DSP, FFT, IIR/FIR, Butterworth filtering, ultrasonic sensing, high-speed acquisition, calibration
TLS, AES, ChaCha20-Poly1305, Kyber, Dilithium, secure OTA, Git, YAML, Docker, CI/CD
Python, C#/.NET, ASP.NET, Qt/C++, R, MATLAB/Simulink, machine learning, statistical modeling, model validation
Board bring-up, JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, serial debugging, Keil MDK, MPLAB, Altium, Eagle, KiCad
Work artifacts & field evidence
Selected posters, project photographs, presentations, and awards documenting technical development, experimental validation, research dissemination, and professional recognition.
Research record
Shrestha, M. M., Wei, L., & Sher, M. - Smart Agricultural Technology, 102335.
Shrestha, M. M., & Rajbamshi, S. - Engineering Research Express, 8, 135306.
Alam, S. M. S. et al., including Shrestha, M. M. - Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 1–17.
Shrestha, M. M., & Wei, L. - Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171(2), 027526.
Shrestha, M. M., Ropakheti, B., Bhattarai, U., & Shakya, A. - Advances in Engineering and Technology, 2(01), 123–130.
Shrestha, M. M. et al. - Advances in Engineering and Technology, 1(1), 33–45.
Shrestha, M. M. et al. - Scientific World, 14(14), 31–36.
Choi, M., Shrestha, M. M., Lee, J. R., & Park, C. Y. - Structural Health Monitoring, 17(2), 145–155.
Current & additional outputs
Shrestha, M. M., & Wei, L. - Information Processing in Agriculture.
Nawaz, T., Shrestha, M. M. (equal contribution), et al. - Smart Agricultural Technology.
2025 ASABE Annual International Meeting, Paper No. 2500564.
View DOI ↗7th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, 1025–1031.
MRF Research 2020/21, City Planning Commission, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, pp. 107–133.
ASABE Annual International Meeting
ASABE Annual International Meeting
SCAEF Conference on Resilient Infrastructures
International IT Conference on ICT with Smart Computing
Advances in Structural Health Management and Composite Structures
Korean Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
10th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University
Advances in Structural Health Management and Composite Structures
South Dakota ASABE Section Meeting
S-1075 Multistate Annual Meeting, Kansas City
ASABE North Central Regional Section Meeting
South Dakota Student Water Conference
S-1075 Multistate Annual Meeting, Ames
MNIFT-Great Plains Poster Competition
Contact
Available for firmware and embedded-systems roles, and collaborative R&D.