During May 2025, Harshad Naik developed a hardware-visual indicator feature for the tenstorrent/tt-zephyr-platforms repository, addressing the need for immediate detection of thermal trip events. He implemented an end-to-end solution in C, integrating LED signaling with the platform’s BMC and thermal management flow to provide real-time visual feedback when critical temperature thresholds were exceeded. This work required expertise in embedded systems, firmware development, and hardware interaction, ensuring the feature was both robust and traceable through precise commit documentation. The project demonstrated depth in handling real-time hardware events and contributed to improved safety and reliability in embedded platform deployments.