Rithesh Gowda

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18+ years in software development and engineering leadership.
Expert in building scalable services with high availability.
Led teams in developing critical applications for major companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Mobile Technology expert with extensive experience in embedded systems and software development.

Contact

ritheshg@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Android DevelopmentCC++ClearCaseDebuggingDevice DriversEmbedded LinuxEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded SystemsGitJavaLinux KernelMobile PlatformsRTOSSoftware Development

About

• 18+ years of experience in software development and 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership building happy accountable teams. • Experience across system programming, middleware platform framework development, android application development, large scale distributed systems, and product development. • Leading team of world class engineers who design, build and maintain highly scalable services and critical applications with 99.9999% and above availability .

Experience

Visa

4 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

Leading engineering team responsible for design and development of tokenisation on-boarding/enrollment platform and services for issuers.
Leading engineering team responsible for design and development of access control service and configuration management for digital products.

Engineering Manager

Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr

Leading engineering team responsible for design, development and maintenance of Digital
Configuration Systems for VTS Issuers.

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Leading engineering team responsible for design, development and maintenance of cryptography services for Visa Digital Products.

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Nov 2017 · 3 mos

Visa Token Service Mobile SDK
● Refactoring native White-Box Cryptography framework

Samsung electronics

4 roles

Senior Chief Engineer

Mar 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Mobile Platforms
● Tizen Platform System Framework Team Lead for Samsung R&D Institute India -
Bangalore Division - Responsible for team management, requirement analysis,
customer interaction, task assignment, tracking, delivery, quality control,
mentoring team members and their performance review.
● Architecting, implementation & guiding team members for development of
device management software solution for Tizen 2.3, 2.4, 3.0 for smart watch &
mobile devices.
● Significant contribution in commercialisation of Samsung Tizen Z2, Z3 & Z4 mobile phones.

Chief Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2012 – Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Mobile Platforms
● Design and development of messaging framework on Tizen platform.
● Tizen Platform System Framework Team Lead for Samsung R&D Institute India -
Bangalore Division - Responsible for team handling, requirement analysis,
customer interaction, task assignment, tracking, delivery, quality control,
mentoring team members and their performance review.
● Major contribution in commercialisation of Samsung Tizen Z1 phone, Samsung
Gear S1, S2 smart watches.

Lead Engineer

Apr 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Mobile Platforms
● Open Service Mobile(bada) mobile platform application framework feature
development and commercialisation support.
● Commercialisation of Samsung Wave series mobile devices on Bada Platform.

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2007 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

Mobile Platforms
● Development and testing of RFID reader module.
● Porting of lighttpd web server to Samsung Handheld Platform and Windows
Mobile 6.
● Porting of pervasive service components to Linux.
● Application framework development and commercialisation support.
● Writing and maintaining program code as per defined quality standards and
technical specification using C on Linux based environment, debugging using gdb,
memory analysis using tools such as valgrind.

L & t emsys

Software engineer

Jul 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo · India

Embedded Systems
● Design and development of software applications on LynxOS for automated camera
based barcode reading systems.
● Device driver development for on-board 9 ports Broadcom BCM5389 Ethernet
switch controlled through SPI protocol, FPGA program driver, and GPIO driver
module.
● Development of PEX85xx NTB software device driver and application modules for
COM express.
● Writing software program for camera based barcode reading systems.
● Testing, debugging and maintaining software developed for camera based barcode
reading systems.