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Anirudhan Madhavan (@anirudhan-madhavan) | Hashnode

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Anirudhan Madhavan

@anirudhan-madhavan

From Bare Metal to BitBake: Engineering the Full Embedded Stack

Bangalore, IndiaJoined March 2026

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I’ve spent my career traversing the stack: from toggling GPIOs to architecting high-concurrency systems with C++ Actor Frameworks. These days, I spend less time with a Protocol Analyzer and more time wrestling with BitBake and ISAR to build reproducible Linux distributions for networking gear.

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I’ve spent my career traversing the stack: from toggling GPIOs to architecting high-concurrency systems with C++ Actor Frameworks. These days, I spend less time with a Protocol Analyzer and more time wrestling with BitBake and ISAR to build reproducible Linux distributions for networking gear.

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From Encodings to XOR: Building the Foundations of Cryptography

9h ago · 2 min read · Please refer to the earlier posts in this series on encoding & decoding as a prerequisite Hex-transforms Base64-transforms Introduction Challenges 1 & 2 don't jump straight into encryption & decryptio

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Base64 Encoding and Decoding

1d ago · 4 min read · Bytes are the computational truth, every other representation is an interface format Binary data cannot be safely passed through every channel. Email bodies, JSON fields, HTTP headers, PEM certificat

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Hex Encoding and Decoding

1d ago · 2 min read · Bytes are the computational truth, every other representation is an interface format Hex-Encoding Hex encoding is a representation step, not an encryption step. It converts each byte into two ASCII c

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Binary Encodings: From Bits to Bytes

1d ago · 3 min read · Binary data is rarely handled in its raw string of 1s and 0s. Instead, developers and systems rely on encodings that balance human readability with machine efficiency. While decimal and octal have spe

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