Nov 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Led R&D engineering activities, team growth, and line management across product management, program management, and DevOps, driving seamless project execution and cross-functional collaboration.
• Spearheaded company-wide R&D projects from technical architecting to execution, driving innovation and ensuring market-focused solutions.
• Achieved 230% growth in 12 months, scaling the Chennai engineering team from 15 to 50 talents and expanding capabilities in multiple service lines.
• Architected and delivered company-wide IoT platform modernizations supporting ISM bands for backhaul and sensing technologies.
• Successfully launched 4 new wireless sensor solutions, increasing safety and efficiency by over 30% in warehousing and manufacturing industries.

Jun 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Owned the telematics SW platform roadmap, aligning with business strategy and driving innovation through rapid customization across 12+ OEM vehicle models.
• Collaborated with silicon vendors to optimize Linux for automotive-grade reliability on ARM SoCs, resulting in $300M+ design wins in 2 years.
• Evangelized Tier 1 solutions to OEMs, leveraging IP fees and driving business growth.
• Prepared and presented the Program Increment Business context, product vision, and list of high-level features to the team, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Dec 2019 – Oct 2020 · 10 mos

• Spearheaded the platformization of Harman's Telematics solution, ensuring sustainability and long-term maintenance for OEMs, and driving business growth through innovative products.
• Developed and executed the product vision for the telematics platform, collaborating with senior management and engineering teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions that met customer needs and stayed ahead of market trends.
• Led cross-functional teams through Agile PI planning, defining product roadmaps, and prioritizing features to drive business outcomes, while ensuring alignment with market and competitor analysis.
• Utilized technical expertise to create epics, features, and user-stories in JIRA/ALM, and defined KPIs to measure success, ensuring seamless collaboration with engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Fostered strong relationships with customers, potential customers, and internal stakeholders through regular interactions, ensuring customer adoption and driving revenue growth.
• Analyzed key business metrics to inform data-driven decisions, adjusting team priorities to meet financial and customer adoption goals, and driving business outcomes through strategic planning and execution.

Apr 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · On-site

• Developed Business case for Easy Sense sensors and Wireless drivers to work in standalone lighting systems that is capable of up selling to connected systems with BLE and Zigbee combo chip. This system is developed with easy integration to Building Management Systems as customer benefit.
• BLE with added security is used to set parameters and read data back from luminaires. BLE introduction negates the Infra-Red component reducing the BOM cost of the sensor by 5% and the yearly sales is in the order of 200K sensors.
• Proved that the business case has the necessary metrics using HEART framework. e.g. for happiness metric reduces the commissioning time by 30% and energy reporting and fault reporting increased from ~90% to ~95%
• Learned Lua scripting and created scripts to decode proprietary Zigbee messages using Wireshark. This reduced the debugging time by more than 50%
• Well versed with development of embedded systems including implementation, unit testing using unity, product testing using NUnit and Continuous Integration using Jenkins.
• Implemented the device driver for VEML6030 (Ambient Light Sensor) using I2C protocol as the earlier component NOA had end of life.
• Supported the design and implementation of Distributed Light Control FSM to achieve different behaviors with the same firmware.
• Performed Competitor analysis and refined product backlog, use cases accordingly.
• Presented proposals, demonstrated the proof of concept and the work in progress to the CEO and other Business Leaders at various forums
• Created the Product backlog for the scrum team with User Acceptance Criteria, refined and prioritized during the sprint for the upcoming sprints based on strategic relevance, customer benefit, opportunistic cost, etc.

Dec 2012 – Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 3 mos · On-site

• Spearheaded the development of a Minimum Viable Ecosystem (MVE) for the Easy Sense sensor, collaborating with partner gateways to form an ecosystem and driving business growth through innovative solutions.
• Led a team of 6 engineers in the development of the sensor, ensuring seamless integration with gateway partners and resolving integration and interference issues, resulting in a 100K Euros cost savings.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in Zigbee network simulation and debugging using XBEE dongle, and in the development of centralized network-based connected lighting systems for North America markets.
• Utilized technical knowledge to drive Build Vs Buy decisions, analyzing cost-effective BLE sniffers and purchasing alternative solutions for team use.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and integrate the Easy Sense and EasySmart - T8LED systems, ensuring successful deployment and winning more projects in North America.
• Served as the Architect for the Starsense wireless systems, designing and developing innovative outdoor lighting solutions for smart cities, and ensuring seamless communication between light poles and central controllers over 802.15.4 sub GHz RF band.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2IyKuChGa0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojot_ayXyuA
• https://www.lighting.philips.com/prof/lighting-controls

Oct 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Working in the area of Multimedia focusing on the Audio and Video Codecs in Symbian Platform.
• Held the complete ownership of the Thumbnail Engine, Media Tool Kit used for the thumbnail generation of images and videos and was part of the transfer to Nokia Finland.

Feb 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Performed the role of Scrum master for a team of 8 focusing majorly on the IPSec VPN.
• Following are the projects where I worked as a developer in Nokia India Pvt Ltd.
• Represented Nokia for CESG certification of E-series mobile phone for IPSec-VPN connections in the handset. During the certification, presented the architecture, code walk through and live hardware debugging over tel-conference.
• Nokia N8
• IPSec VPN Solution Integration
• DNS Resolution of International Domain Names
• Split Tunneling Support
• NOKIA E72
• UMA and mobile VPN coexistence
• NOKIA N97, 5800
• Http Stack improvement
• TCP RTO Analysis
• Dynamic Receive Window based on bearer

Feb 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Understanding of the Product Requirements raised by the Product Area Manager.
• Preparing the High-level design sketch and getting it approved from the Senior Design Authority.
• Preparation of the low level design document and implementing the code.
• Preparation of the test plan and getting it approved from the Chief Test Architect.
• Involved in guiding the team members for developing the test suite and test code.
• Performing the Regression tests
• Support and Maintenance for the networking components

Jul 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Some of the roles and responsibilities are as follows:
• Understanding the requirements from the SRD prepared and modifying based on the feasibility done.
• Preparing the High-level design document and Low-level design document.
• Implementing based on the Low-level design.
• Checking in the code in the clearcase vobs.
• Performing the Unit test and module testing.
• Performing the support for the integration testing.

Oct 2003 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Some of the roles and responsibilities are as follows:
• Preparing Requirement Specifications and getting approval from requirement owner.
• Preparing Implementation Proposal ( design document)
• Coding using C,C++ with COM technology.
• Performing Unit test on the module done.
• Updating daily status and escalating any issues over to Onsite Team through audio Conference.
• Merging the code after successful Beta testing (testing from Client side) into the main branch (Clear case is being used for configuration management).
• Solving any Trouble Reports (TRs) on these modules or any related modules