Jun 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Nov 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Creation of niche functional CoE from scratch for RFIC driver, Wireless SDK, 5G integration for supporting L1, L2 ecosystem for NXP soc in various 5G opportunities for RU, DU, 5G cpe and Integrated Small cell use cases.
• Responsible for delivering NXP 5G solutions for US customers, Vendor InterOps, OEM interactions and Ecosystem partner management.
• Led the team to deliver the Soc Enablement for uboot/ Linux/ FreeRTOS Software for NXP’s gateway chips targeted for the Automotive customers. Regular Interlocks with the various Hardware teams for the Pre-Silicon and Post Silicon software validation.
• Leading open-source strategist for many key projects for NXP semiconductors. Steered and led the UEFI and DPDK team in NXP
• Represented NXP in DPDK, Linaro, UEFI and various open source projects.
• Complete ownership for numerous System-On-Chip (SoC) product development right from customer specifications to launch.
• Passion for promoting the culture of Innovation and strategic thinking, Submitted multiple US patents in the area of embedded systems while working for Conexant, Freescale and NXP.
• Co-Authored and contributed in Book (with Rob Oshana) – Software Engineering for Embedded systems: Methods, Practical Techniques, and applications.

Apr 2015 – Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Delivers Platform software for all NXP DN NPI.
• Improved HW/SW interaction, Instituted well defined SW validation scope criteria
• Defined, Led, Executed – Adoption & integration of new technologies for DN platform - UEFI, ODP, DPDK, OVS and FD.IO
• Site Manager Role - Leading a motivated team of 55+ Sw engineers.
• Involved in various India level initiatives in NXP-India :
• 2015 - Chaired the India level Technical Symposium
• 2016- Tech Poster event 2016 and in Core team for 2017 Tech Symposium.
• Recognized as a leading Software advocate for ARM ecosystem .
• Represented NXP on DPDK Governance board [2017-20]
• Represented NXP on Linaro LNG SC [2016-2017], Linaro NXP liason for all groups [2019-20]
• Represented NXP on FD.IO SC [2016]
• Represented NXP on UEFI [2016-20]
• Represented NXP in Yocto, Realtime and various LF projects.

Nov 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Nov 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr

•  Responsible for Delivering Innovative Products in Smart Energy sector and Healthcare - for aggressive customers.
•  Responsible for all deliveries in Product Development for the home automation product in Smart Energy sector - spread across Embedded, Cloud and Mobile App (iOs, Android) domains.
•  Responsible for managing QA-projects for a team of 25+ engineers.
•  Responsible for Program management, including dependency management and follow up on action items conducting project review meetings.
•  Responsible for successfully building a team from 15 to 60+ engineers in span of 1 yr. Responsible for hiring and motivating the work force for an efficient delivery.
•  Responsible for Handling Customer Visits and building relationship with the customer.
•  Responsible for Profitability of the Account and continuously tracking the same.
•  Responsible for Monthly costing and also billing to the Customer.
•  Responsible for Risk management and planning for all customer projects.
•  Responsible for Travel Management and travel allocations for the project.
•  Responsible for Creating and presenting Customer-Account Status reports in Executive meetings chaired by CEO.
•  Responsible for Ensuring Quality delivery by capturing various quality metrics as defined by the Quality Management System of the organization and also the Client.
•  Responsible as - A single point of contact for managing all customer escalations and taking them to closure.
•  Worked as a Scrum-Master for the offshore team and attending the Daily-night Scrum-standup with Customer team in US.
•  Worked as an Engineering leader for 14 member Mobile App team – Android and iOS.

Feb 2011 – Oct 2011 · 8 mos

Dec 2001 – Dec 2009 · 8 yrs

• Key Roles & Skills
• Worked as a Platform Manager for ADSL CPE products and responsible for all customer releases and demo. I was responsible for board bringup, BSP support and optimizations.
• Worked as a Project leader for the OS (Operating System) group for the CPE (DSL modem) software stack for Conexant.
• Worked as software engineer and a Tech Lead for the NM (network management) group of the ADSL CPE software for Conexant.
• first hand experience to Work in China for customers –
• Huawei, Dare and ZTE in China-Telecom CPE Qualification for the yr 2005.
• Implemented strategy for shortest time to market and customer differentiating features like small memory footprint in the ADSL CPE.
• The profile also involved close interaction with the marketing team and customer-support teams to resolve customer bugs and new requirements.
• Technical skills
• Features, enhancements & defects in areas -
• RTOS[Nucleus, Quantum(proprietary OS), Linux-BSP], Image-upgrade, BootLoader, drivers(USB, ethernet,flash) , Flash\RAM file system, Logging framework, LED-library, Device-drivers framework, Timer Management,Interrupt Handling.
• Memory optimization – RAM\Flash for software stack.
• Boottime optimizations - to bring down the bootup time.
• Debugging features and Tools – like GDB and Hardware debuggers like Real-View and LauterBach.
• Patents & Innovations
• Filed three(3) Patents for Conexant and received Patent-Awards for the same.
• ARM10 – New Algorithm for Stack Back-trace without frame-pointer.
• Hardware breakpoint in ARM-GDB using MMU tweaks.
• Mini-TCP IP system for the Boot-Loader.
• Leading member of Innovation Initiative(I-Qube) - responsible for motivating teams(leading by example) for coming out with new ideas\patents.

Jul 2000 – Dec 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos

• The Company specialized in development of high-speed backbone routers for the Internet.
• I worked as a Software Developer and was involved in the development of the Element Management System [EMS] for the router.

Jul 1999 – Jul 2000 · 1 yr

• Compaq Development Center(CDC) of Mphaisis BFL, Bangalore
• Our Division was working in the field of storage device drivers for RAID controllers for Compaq. I worked as a Software Developer for coding and testing of device drivers for SCSI controllers.