Lucky Bagaria

Software Engineer

San Diego, California, United States14 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years in camera software stack development
Expert in 3A algorithms and image quality
Filed 4 patents in camera technology

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Camera Software Engineer with expertise in image processing and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Camera SoftwareImage QualityDevice DriversEmbedded Systems

Other Skills

3A algorithmsCamera solutionsImage quality optimizationCamera HALSensor driversAndroid PlatformsVideo player handlerDriver componentsVideo/Image compressionCUDAGPGPUsEDA designCData StructuresC++

About

15 years of demonstrated experience in camera software stack including 3A, sensor driver, HAL and post-processing with expertise and in-depth knowledge in 3A algorithms. Filed 4 patents in camera domain. Passionate about new areas of innovation in camera and its augmentation with the use of machine learning and AI. Open to explore Camera Hardware pipeline.

Experience

Qualcomm

3 roles

Senior Staff Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Staff Engineer

Oct 2019 – Oct 2025 · 6 yrs

Senior Lead Engineer / Senior Engineer - Camera 3A

Mar 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Working on Qualcomm 3A (AF, AEC, AWB) solutions .
Improving / optimizing algorithms in order to achieve better performance and image quality.
Understanding and implementing various customization request from customer on low / mid / premium tier chipsets across 3A.

3A algorithmsCamera solutionsImage quality optimizationCamera SoftwareImage Quality

Samsung research institute-noida, samsung electronics

2 roles

Lead Engineer - Camera Hal / Driver .

Promoted

May 2012 – Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Responsible for the development of camera hal and camera sensor drivers on Android Platforms.
Developed various camera sensors and flash LED drivers for Samsung phones on Android Platforms.
Good understanding and hands-on experience on Android Camera middleware/HAL architecture, Camera sensor driver development, post-processing/JPEG, V4L2 interface specifications, debugging on embedded RTOS, camera bring-up activity on different chipsets.

Camera HALSensor driversAndroid PlatformsCamera SoftwareDevice Drivers

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 – May 2012 · 10 mos

Responsible for the development of video player handler and driver components for Samsung Feature Phone. Hands-on experience on container formats, Video / Image compression techniques, Video Codecs, JTAG debugging.

Video player handlerDriver componentsVideo/Image compressionEmbedded Systems

University of southampton

Intern

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Southampton, United Kingdom

Multi-Core Electronic Design Automation on GPGPUs (Nvidia Quadro / Tesla ).
Implemented logic simulation of functional verification (EDA design) , using CUDA on Nvidia GPGPUs. A speed-up of 10x over a sequential implementation was demonstrated.

CUDAGPGPUsEDA design