Amit Shakya — CEO

Total 16 years of industry experience - 10+ years in Wireless LAN protocol (WIFI), standard and proprietary features development, architectural design and development for embedded wireless products, Wifi device drivers. - Hands on exposure and had complete ownership for a chipsets MP cycle right from FPGA prototyping, module DVTs, ROM Tapeout, 3rd party RF integration and chip bring up till MP of the product -Engineering Management – Experience in driving large projects spanning a wide range of functions including Project Management, Customer Management, System Architecture & Design/Development - Software Roadmap - definition & execution with Product Marketing - Driving and delivering new technology based products - Hands on exposure in OpenMAC (802.11mac), UMAC, MAC firmware (LMAC), Full MAC and Linux device driver - Hands on Firmware delivery exposure for ROM/RAM based solution development including SW/HW patching techniques - Filed 5 patents (under process) - Qualified Wifi based solutions across different platfroms - mobile, standalone AP, STA, Repeaters. - Around 1-1/2 years in Bluetooth FW development and customer support including ROM T/O and related SW/HW RAM patch development exposure on ARM based chipsets - Around 2-1/2 years in Layer 2 bridging protocols, features & system architectural changes for embedded DSLAM product - Around 2 years in embedded VOIP and Telecom protocols development Specialties: * Expertise: WiFi/BT/BLE connectivity technologies, Device drivers, Open MAC (802.11mac), UMAC, MAC FW (LMAC), SDIO, Multi-processor arch, ARM9,ANDES, -P2P -P2P concurrent -802.11b/d/e/g/h/i/k/n/r/ac/af –RFC2684 -802.1X -VLANs 802.1q -802.1p -802.1d –IGMP V1/2 –IP -TCP -UDP -MGCP –Mobile IP -VOIP –Bluetooth BR/EDR FW –BT SIG Spec 2.1/3.0/4.0 -CortexM3 * Android, Linux, RTOS (Nucleus, RTK, Frost) * People Management: Building team from scratch, competency development, talent management * Project MP and worked onsite directly with customers

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications expert with a strong focus on wireless connectivity and firmware development.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Experience: 25 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Firmware Development
Linux Drivers
Algorithm Design
Driver Development
Bluetooth
Wlan Linux Device Driver
Bridging Protocols
Media Server Development
Mobile Ip

Career Highlights

16 years of experience in wireless technologies
Led development of world's first 802.11af chipset
Filed multiple patents in wireless technology

Work Experience

MediaTek

Senior Department Manager (12 yrs 9 mos)

ST Ericsson

Senior Specialist (3 yrs 6 mos)

Conexant Systems

Senior Lead Software Engineer (9 yrs 1 mo)

telesoft

Software Enggineer (2 yrs)

Education

BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

XII at Campion School

Amit Shakya

CEO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India25 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years of experience in wireless technologies
Led development of world's first 802.11af chipset
Filed multiple patents in wireless technology

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications expert with a strong focus on wireless connectivity and firmware development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Firmware DevelopmentLinux DriversAlgorithm DesignDriver DevelopmentBluetoothWlan Linux Device DriverBridging ProtocolsMedia Server DevelopmentMobile Ip

Other Skills

802.11afDynamic Frequency AllocationIoT Firmware802.11ac802.11nOpen Source MACFPGA DevelopmentMAC FirmwareMGCP ProtocolETMTCPUDPCEmbedded SystemsC++

About

Experience

25 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Mediatek

Senior Department Manager

Jul 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 9 mos · Noida Area, India

Delivered complete SW for World's first 802.11af based TVWS chipset ***************
Filed 2 Patents (under filing)
Developed Access Point and STA Linux Drivers and Firmware for TVWS FPGA prototype
Worked with Microsoft @University of Strathclyde, Scotland and Google @London zoo for successful Field trials
Complete SW owned and developed in team with full involvement in/exposure of complete successful chip tapeout cycle including 3rd party RF integration support
Responsible for Arch design & development of 802.11af support in Linux and Windows Driver and FW development
FW based Module DVT for chip tapeout (TDI/FDI) and HW verification on ASIC Sample Back
FW ROM code developed and chip bring up
AP USB Linux driver and STA - Windows and Linux USB drivers delivered
PAWS application support for dynamic frequency allocation for AP
MP done for AP and STA 802.11af 1X1 chipset with 0.5/1/6/7/8Mhz USB
Delivered WiFi FW for Mediatek next generation IoT chipsets - MT7687 (standalone WiFi), MT7697 (WiFi, BLE Combo) ***************
Complete IoT firmware ownership in team
Developed Wifi Full MAC Firmware for IoT chipsets
Responsible for Arch/feature design including ROM/RAM partition for limited memory footprint solution, LP, performance
Developed FW ROM code and chip bring up
Support for AP, STA, Repeater, BLE Coex, Sniffer, Smart Connect, 5G, DFS, TGn, Low Power etc
MP delivered the product, responsible for Tier1/2 customers MP, support
Working on low cost IoT chipset's Tapeout and WiFi host driver development
Developed Mediatek's MAN (Mediatek Adaptive Network) feature on 802.11ac 4X4 MU-MIMO chipset ****************
Filed 3 patents (under filing)
Responsible for algo design/development for automatic easy setup connections and configuration adapt etc with support for different network topologies in Repeater Network
Developed solution in Linux driver
Solution develop and CS ongoing

802.11afLinux DriversFirmware DevelopmentDynamic Frequency AllocationIoT Firmware

St ericsson

Senior Specialist

Dec 2009 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Greater Noida

WIFI
Technically lead and developed the architecture for different features on STE chipset including P2P, P2P concurrent mode and prop features support in Open Source MAC (mac80211) and driver. Also developed the solution and resolved system level issues.
I am also involved in 802.11n 1X1 chipset development, P2P concurrent mode feature integration, bring up and qualifying the solution across different mobile platforms (Android - ICS, JB and prop. OS) and non-mobile platforms including tablets and providing fast resolution for critical customer production issues, including onsite support for aggressive customers
I was involved in throughput enhancements for customer specific opportunity and power optimization related feature development
Single handedly integrated and qualified ST Ericsson’s 802.11n 1X1 WLAN chipset at customer site within a very aggressive timeline on proprietary RTOS (RTK).
I was involved in development, transition and support of open source MAC (mac80211) based driver.
Also involved in community following and contributions
Bluetooth
Lead the team for supporting customers directly for STE legacy BT chipsets and involved in qualifying BT chipset across mobile/non-mobile platforms. Had full ownership of the patch delivery.
Involved in FPGA based development of prop. BR/EDR features, code and performance optimizations and resolving system level integration issues for successful ROM tapeout of GBF combo chipset.
Involved in porting of ARM based code to CortexM3.
Involved in architecting and development of Bluetooth BR/EDR features, optimizations and resolving issues by developing RAM based patches for STE legacy ROM based chipset.

802.11nOpen Source MACDriver DevelopmentBluetoothFPGA Development

Conexant systems

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2002 – Jul 2011 · 9 yrs 1 mo

WIFI
WLAN Linux Device driver for Conexant chipset, 802.11n Linux based PCI device driver integration, Wireless chips bringup and production including onsite qualification for both STAtion and Access Point products, 802.11 MAC FW, WIFI test bed qualification of STA and AP products
MAC STA specific features like MCDLP, Properitary WPS, 802.11r, 802.11k, CCX versions, WHQL certifications, low power features etc and AP features like VAP (MBSSID), WDS, Secure-WDS, U-APSD, WPS, 802.11k (VoWiFi specific) & 802.11r (VoWiFi specific).
L2 Bridging/protocol development
Worked on Mulicast (static and dynamic - IGMPSnoop) , full bridging, redundancy and active standy architecture & all related protocols and features including 802.1d, priority tagging (802.1p), packet filtering, VLANs (802.1q), LACP, GVRP, etc. PPPOA-PPPOE, IPOA-IPOE tunneling, IRL & entire Conexant DSLAM product training to customers

WLAN Linux Device Driver802.11nMAC FirmwareBridging Protocols

Telesoft

Software Enggineer

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs

design and development of Media Server product based on MGCP protocol using NMS microsystems CG6000C platform
design of GGSN Control Plane (2.5G) support for Mobile IP functionality

MGCP ProtocolMedia Server DevelopmentMobile IP