Oct 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Leading software at Qualcomm's CR&D division in Bengaluru. Working on cool and innovative projects in the diverse domains of communications, IOT and multimedia.

Oct 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Established Cyanogen’s India office from the ground up - including negotiations for premises,
• IT infrastructure setup, finance and hiring a team of 15 engineers and 10 contractors.
• Set up cross-functional teams for cloud services, Cyanogen OS devices and systems, QA and
• build and integration
• Quick training and ramp up, with successful transition of products to the India team(s) in quick time,
• and the entire device QA, including Android certification, being handled by this team.
• Engaging with several leaders in the India mobile ecosystem - across carriers,
• OEMs, and application verticals. Identified key opportunities for the company, resulting
• in product agreements and partnerships.
• Driving innovation via hackathons and ideation meetings, resulting in 1 patent disclosure being
• filed within the first six months.

May 2008 – Sep 2015 · 7 yrs 4 mos

• Head of Software, Qualcomm Bangalore
• Heading a team of 250+ full time employees and contractors across a set of diverse technical
• teams
• Wifi Host Software: Team acquired via Qualcomm’s Atheros acquisition, working on router
• software
• IP Multimedia Subsystems: Focusing on implementation of 3GPP IMS stack and features
• such as VOIP, and Video Telephony, primarily over Android.
• Software Architecture: Focusing on bridging the value tier HW/SW interface gap for global
• software teams.
• Location Technology: Delivering features on automotive and Windows products.
• Windows Phone Software: Partnering with MSFT for enabling WindowsPhone on various
• Qualcomm SoCs.
• Responsible for overall team management and software deliverables.
• Responsible for staffing (full time and contractors), capex/opex budget forecast, logistics, and
• roadmap planning with global team leadership.
• Grew this team from about 30 engineers to 270+

Nov 2004 – May 2008 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Project: Windows Mobile Multimedia: Enabling Qualcomm’s multimedia solution on the Windows
• Mobile (WM) platform for the 7k series of chipsets (Aug 2006- May 2008)
• Leading the QVideophone development for WM (design, development, commercialization).
• The solution includes development of a test application, DirectShow filters, and middleware
• to drive the codec and H.324 protocol stack for video telephony.
• Mentored/trained a team of contractors for this project in areas ranging from QCT SCM,
• coding standards, architecture to WM debugging tools and techniques.
• Project: QCT’s ODM Software Development Project (Sirius) (Nov 2004 – Aug 2006)
• UI Commercialization Lead: Interfaced with customers on a daily basis for exchanging/updating
• operator and commercialization gating issues. Prioritized the issues and coordinated
• the timely delivery of solutions across 3 sites (San Diego, Boulder, UK) and multiple contracting
• companies.
• Accessories Lead: Responsible for design and development of the UI application, BREW
• OEM extensions and necessary drivers for managing numerous wired and wireless (Bluetooth)
• accessories. This included integration of Qualcomm’s BT stack into the product, and
• enhancing it to meet customer needs.

Jan 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Leading the development teams in User Interface (UI) for handling call management, customer
• specific UI, downloadable content management, and push to talk. Total reports were
• 30, divided into five teams, and spread across two development sites (San Diego and Bangalore,
• India). Responsible for providing technical leadership and overseeing development/
• re-architecting of UI modules in the above mentioned areas.
• As a member of the Architecture Review Team for the UI, provide input for a variety of different
• issues affecting the entire UI team, from reviewing new feature proposals to new
• SCM and software process changes.
• UI target lead for developing UI components on the EVDO PC card as per carrier specific
• requirements. Responsible for interacting with third party software developers for specifying
• requirements, interfaces and test plans for their deliverables.
• UI target lead for the company's flagship K400 series of phones. Turned around the project
• and delivered the target to various customers on time, with the desired software quality.
• The phone was highly successful and provided the basis for all of KWC's future low tier
• phones.

Jun 1999 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Project: Ericsson’s Base Station Controller software for BSC 1120 (for cdma2000) and BSC 1100
• (for IS-95A).
• Designed and developed several components as part of the user plane subsystem team, such as
• the MAC scheduler for IS2000 channels, and the CDMA Timing Distribution component.
• As the lead for a number of features in the project, I was responsible for leading the feature
• teams through the entire software development lifecycle (requirements analysis, design, integration
• and testing). Features delivered included Node Robustness and Self-Recovery and the
• BSC-RBS Traffic Frame Connectivity.
• Developed a tool for catching memory leaks in the system to point out outstanding memory
• allocations along with useful information such as the location where the offensive allocation
• was made and the process id.

Feb 1997 – Jun 1999 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Base Station Controller software.
• This division was acquired by Ericsson.