Pankaj Darak

Associate Partner

Hyderabad, Telangana, India21 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in semiconductor and embedded software.
  • Expert in multimedia and networking software development.
  • Led significant projects in Gstreamer and OpenMAX-IL.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Multimedia Software Engineer with extensive experience in embedded systems and networking.

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Skills

Core Skills

GstreamerOpenmax-ilOpenmaxQtMultimedia ApplicationsOmx-il

Other Skills

Video Codec DevelopmentMedia FrameworksRDK Media FrameworkDebuggingSoCCDigital Signal ProcessorsARMSet Top BoxTestingASICLip SyncPythonLinuxLinux Kernel

About

15+ years of semiconductor/embedded software experience majority in multimedia and networking. Software (DPDK, Linux, custom frameworks) for PCIe based high-speed NICs, MACsec, IPsec, FlexE and other network function offloads on FPGA. Mobile, Set-Top Box system design and engineering including video codec development, developing and customizing media frameworks such as GStreamer and OpenMAX-IL.

Experience

21 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
3 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Amd

Senior Manager

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Xilinx

3 roles

Design Engineering Manager

Aug 2018Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Design Engineer

Aug 2014Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Entropic communications

Staff Engineer

Jun 2012Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Team Lead and Architect for G-Streamer and OpenMAX-IL development and deliverables. In addition, I was instrumental in design and bring up of the following activities
  • G-streamer elements for video decoder, audio decoder, video sink, audio sink on gst-openmax, to utilize Entropic OMX-IL tunneling architecture for hardware offloading of decoding and rendering functionality.
  • Support for Timestamped Transport Stream (TTS) in Fluendo G-Streamer Demuxer using the H/W supported system clock for Clock recovery.
  • DTCP-IP G-Streamer Decrypt element over Entropic Crypto Drivers.
  • Improvements and fixes to HLS demuxer, available as part of gst-plugins-bad.
  • RDK Media Framework on Entropic SDK.
  • Optimization of G-Streamer and OMX-IL on various STB SOCs.
  • G-Streamer based Media player test application that supports all the features supported by Entropic SDK. This application is used by SQA as their test application for Entropic SDK.
GstreamerOpenMAX-ILOMX-ILVideo Codec DevelopmentMedia Frameworks

Trident microsystems

Technical Leader

Feb 2010May 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Was instrumental in design and development of following activities
  • OpenMAX media components like Video Decoder, Video Renderer, Audio Decoder, Audio Renderer, JPEG decoder.
  • OMX-IL test application.
  • Flash player browser plugin in Trident’s Android Set top Box. Video and Graphics optimization to meet Adobe’s Device Certification Test Suite (DCTS) criteria.
  • Qt based demo application for Set Top Box. Features includes EPG creation for Satellite, Cable and IP path, recording, playback, trick modes, media player, live pause, etc.
OpenMAXQtVideo Codec Development

Nxp semiconductors

Technical Leader

Nov 2009Feb 2010 · 3 mos

Amd

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2006Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Developed framework over AMD driver as a plugin in to LG’s multimedia applications (Media player, camera, and camcorder) on AMD’s A250 application processor.
  • Optimization of LG Applications and media framework.
  • Onsite development with LGE to address the integrations issues.
  • Client Framework development over OMX-IL on AMD’s W2x9x multimedia ASIC for HTC’s video telephony & camera application.
  • Bring up and integration of the TFT and CLI panels in AMD’s OEM driver for use in various Motorola’s program.

Sasken

Software Engineer

Jul 2004Dec 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed MPEG-4 Simple Profile @ Level-0/0b/1/2/3 and H.263 profile 3 @ level-10/20/30/40 video encoder on C64x+ DSP core of OMAP 2430.
  • Developed MPEG-4 Simple Profile @ Level-0/0b/1/2/3 and H.263 profile 3 @ level-10/20/30/40 video encoder on IVA (Image and Video Accelerator) of OMAP 2420.
  • Designed & developed De-blocking and Edge-enhancement filters as post-processing modules for MPEG-4 video decoder on OMAP 2420 platform.
  • Optimization of MPEG-4 video codec on OMAP 2420 & OMAP 2430 platforms to achieve the customer performance targets.
  • Programming hardware accelerators and designing parallel processing methodologies.
  • Presented with "Rookie Award" for excellent contribution towards developing MPEG-4 video codec on TI's OMAP 2420 platform.
  • Technical Paper on 'Power efficient implementation of motion estimation over portable devices' at IEEE international conference on Portable information devices, 2007.
Multimedia ApplicationsMedia FrameworksOMX-IL

Education

National Institute of Technology Warangal

B.Tech — Electronics & Communication

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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