Mar 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Engineering Lead for Krutrim Cloud Platform

Oct 2016 – Mar 2024 · 7 yrs 5 mos · On-site

• Have been building large scale & efficient Silicon/HW/SW Platforms Engineering Workflows, Methodologies, Practices & leading SW Systems Engineering functions of Integration, Validation Automation, Reference Applications, Tools, Infrastructure, Labs, Observability & Debug Solutions, DevOps/CI/CD for multiple Intel groups (Cellular Wireless platforms, IoT Platforms, Network & Edge Platforms and Solutions) enabling range of customers from Apple to 100s of OEM/ODMs/SI customers/partners. Key contributions and accomplishments:
•  End to End Engineering Workflow, Practices & Engine to be able to deliver weekly fully qualified platform releases and enabling 15+ simultaneous multi-generational platforms and product lines
•  Large scale CI/CD, Tests Automation framework, tools, solutions; increasing test automation rate from <20% to >80%; >100K test execution/day, auto-triage of 1000s of test failures & defects reported/day
•  Development and Test labs infrastructure spread across >10 sites, >10K systems enabled with fully remote operations with 0/1-touch provisioning, telemetry, dashboards
•  Gen-AI & ML assisted Co-pilot Solutions for SW Development, Validation, Debugging, DevOps and infrastructure engineering & operations
•  Established matured processes to support internal engineering teams & scaled infrastructure - Unified Services ticket Support system for all framework, tools, solutions, infrastructure with live dashboards, SLAs compliance, keeping >99% uptime availability

Aug 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · On-site

• Led Intel’s Wireless Connectivity Innovation, Cellular-Wi-Fi Offload and Interworking solutions for Intel wireless & Android based mobile products portfolio. Key contributions and accomplishments were:
•  Led SW planning, program management, development, integration to Intel’s Wireless and Android mobile platforms
•  Led early design, development of technology, Successful trials and IOTs for advanced Cellular Wi-Fi features (Wi-Fi Calling, LTE-WiFi Aggregation) with key NW/Operator partners (Verizon, Ericsson, Nokia, AT&T), W-Fi Alliance Passpoint 2.0

Jan 2010 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Built and Led Wi-Fi System Integration, Verification, Validation and Certification teams for CSR’s BT-Wi-Fi Connectivity chipsets. Key contributions and accomplishments were:
•  Established Software Integration & validation strategies including branching strategy, mainline content & release planning, merge quality criteria, nightly smoke testing strategies
•  Pioneered and led the idea, design, development for abstraction components & Applications to be able to integrate, test Wi-Fi SW for different functionalities, different environments, and re-use test content and automation easily across variants and generation of Wi-Fi platforms
•  Established test automation framework for System Integration, validation, certification testing.
•  Established scaled & cost-effective Labs & Infrastructure (including bespoke anechoic rooms, chambers) for Wi-Fi verification, validation, pre-certification

Aug 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Led Windows CE/Mobile BSP, Device Drivers & Bluetooth Host Software Development for CSR’s ARM based Development and Example Mobile platforms. Key contributions and accomplishments
•  Led BSP development, bring-up of application processor, Integration of Cellular as well as BT-Wi-Fi connectivity baseband platform & SW stack with application processor
•  Architect, Design, Development to replace Windows Mobile Native BT Host Stack with CSR’s proprietary BT Host Stack

Jun 2001 – Aug 2007 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

•  Design and development of RRC, MAC, L1 Control protocol stack layers and features
•  Led the design and development of abstraction SW & SDK to be able to integrate wireless stack on different RTOS and Baseband platform
•  Written & worked with standards team for number of 3GPP CRs
•  Led the GCF and IOTs of 3GPP features with Network vendors & operators
•  Supported customers with technical trainings, onboarding, integration and technical issues
•  Wrote RRC chapter in book “WCDMA - Requirements and Practical Design” (ISBN 9780470861776) to share practical knowledge & experience of implementation of 3G standards specifications

Nov 1999 – May 2001 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked as Software Engineer; worked on Wireless 3G cellular protocol stack development for Samsung Mobile. Key contributions and accomplishments were
• o Designed and Developed various RRC procedures specially Connection & Data Bearer Control Procedures.
• o Integration of RRC with other SW components, Bring-up of entire protocol stack for achieving full end-to-end calls & functionality