Nikheel Vishwas Savant
Nikheel V. Savant is a Senior Software Engineer at Meta, specializing in Android Bluetooth internals and embedded wireless systems for next-generation wearable devices. He brings over a decade of experience in connectivity engineering, including 10 years at Bosch where he worked on embedded systems for automotive and industrial applications. At Meta, he focuses on AOSP Bluetooth stack optimization, secure pairing flows, and scalable audio/video transport. His prior roles include working on Wi-Fi systems at Apple and vehicle connectivity at Tesla. Nikheel holds a Master’s in Embedded Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s in Electronics & Communication. He is an active contributor to research and development in wireless debugging and Android platform stability.
Meta
Your job title –Senior Software Engineer
Session
Building a Bluetooth feature that works on your test phone is one thing. Shipping it across thousands of phones, wearables, and OS versions is another. This talk covers the real engineering behind making Bluetooth reliable at scale.
We’ll walk through:
Why Bluetooth fails across devices (OEM stack quirks, reconnection bugs, bonding edge cases)
Design principles for scalable, crash-resilient Bluetooth services on Android
AOSP insights: HAL integration, stack customization, and bt_config tweaks for wearables
Lessons from scaling Meta’s smartglasses Bluetooth stack across Android and iOS
Test infrastructure that catches flaky behavior: stack stress tests, CI bots, and auto-validation
This session is ideal for platform engineers, OEM partners, and anyone dealing with Bluetooth at scale. You’ll walk away with patterns, pitfalls, and tools that apply whether you’re working on a fitness band, car, or companion app.