Jan 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

• Worked closely with CEO to co-lead the upcoming Euler Cargo Vehicle product (with Atul Verma and Kundan Kumar)
• Facilitated discussions between R&D, supply chain team and external vendors to ensure timelines and BOM cost is met for all electronic
• components
• Spearheaded daily stand-up calls to track overall project progress and issue resolutions over JIRA/Asana.
• Strategized 20+ pilots with business development team to find the Product Market Fit and finalize the product specification

Feb 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

• Led the cross-functional development of Android based Infotainment System in the Hardware, Software, UI/UX and Product domain from inception to implementation
• Created product requirements by benchmarking 10+ infotainment systems and conducting user studies of 20 drivers
• Built a team of 4 from scratch by leveraging various recruitment sources for Android Developer and Embedded Hardware positions
• Led the development of Android applications for Maps, Media playback, Camera, Dialer along with maintaining the Android platform, managing bi-monthly Sprints, conducting code-reviews and tracking issues over Github Projects.
• Interfaced with various hardware and semiconductor vendors in India, China and USA to identify appropriate electronic components
• Executed board bring-up and embedded software development on Android OS for various peripherals like display, camera and radio
• Spearheaded on-time and under budget PCB development (along with mechanical enclosure) with multiple external vendors

Dec 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019 · 3 mos

Apr 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Executed a cross-functional Android architecture re-design effort for multiple Android targets in Qualcomm, working with ~25 teams that will result in improvement of build times by 50%, possible benefits in bringing up new Android targets as well as a clean, evangelized Android architecture in Qualcomm.
• Worked closely with Google to optimize the Android build system by cutting down on compilation of unnecessary artefacts in Qualcomm source tree, resulting in compilation time savings of 5-10% .
• Added a dependency mechanism for the shutdown sequence between two peripherals to avoid foreseeable crashes as well as an Android property based restart mechanism for a peripheral to follow a sequence of resets in case it is unable to restart.
• Mentored an intern to train a machine learning model to collect data from a Snapdragon device and improve end-user experience.

Feb 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Added 4k and 10-bit HDR (High Dynamic Range) support along with VC-1 and MPEG-2 video formats support for Gstreamer hardware decoder and display plugin based on Wayland/Weston
• Optimized buffer transer between plugins in Gstreamer plugin pipelines and achieved zero-copy of buffers between plugins and immensely improved latencies.
• Added dynamic loading of symbols from file descriptor functionality to GNU C library (glibc) so as to enable loading secure encrypted libraries without writing it on the filesystem and hence prevent access to the decrypted library.
• Gained insights on the Yocto build system and Autotools while enabling the decoder and display Gstreamer plugins

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Implemented signal processing algorithms in the testing system for the grippers using pressure sensor feedback to automate the testing system. This resulted in instantaneous failure detection and prevented data corruption
• Setup the pneumatic testing rigs to run multiple rigs simultaneously at high operating frequency
• Improved the MATLAB based Graphical User Interface to automate updating repository, improved usability and added error logs
• Learnt about Scrum model for product development

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

• Find ways to track cichlid fish behavior in a fish tank - Sound and Position data
• Market research for the required hardware such as hydrophones and antenna circuit boards.
• Record cichlid fish sounds and identify courtship and aggression sounds using MATLAB
• Integration of sound recording with Raspberry Pi
• Set up magnetic coil setup to detect RFID fish tags to localize fish position data in the fish tank

Nov 2014 – Mar 2015 · 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Assisted a wearable device project for non-invasive monitoring of physiological parameters such as heart rate and blood pressure.
• Executed a market research for all the components as well as for PCB manufacturers.
• Interfaced 16 bit RISC architecture based low power Texas Instruments microcontroller with Pulse Plethysmographic sensor, OLED display and Bluetooth module using JTAG debugger and Code Composer Studio (Java based IDE).
• Designed an ARM based microcontroller PCB with Serial debug Interface and micro USB power
• circuitry board using Altium Designer 15.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · SRM University

• Secured 1st rank upto the Critical Design Review (CDR) Presentation Stage in CANSAT 2015.
• Managed the complete finances amounting to Rs.1.3 million as well as the logistics of the team.
• Enabled seamless connectivity between the Payload and the Container of the CANSAT with perfect telemetry.

Oct 2013 – Jul 2014 · 9 mos · SRM University

• Secured 2nd rank worldwide in CANSAT 2014.
• Interfaced all the sensors and programmed the flight software on Arduino interface especially the DataFlash memory which led to a significant decrease in the weight of the CANSAT by the elimination of SD Card.