Nov 2018 – Apr 2025 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Project Name : SBR/PMR and HAN WIFI
• Role : Project and Technical Management responsibilities as Principle
• FW Engineer
• Description : Being lead of project responsibility is to successful deliverables of
• Itron Projects i.e. Socket based and Pole mounted routers. These are linux based cisco
• routers which has customized Itron module to communicate meters nodes to headend
• servers through RF mesh technology. Delivered successfully HAN where third party
• applications are communicating to meters through HAN routers.
• Responsibilities: o
• o Project planning and schedules
• o Alignment of resources as per the requirements and Team building from scratch
• o Make sure major milestones of projects delivered to SQA and customers as per
• deadlines.
• o Support the product and resolve customer raised issues and queries.
• o Interact with all stake holders i.e. Build, tools. Architect, FW Development, Platform,
• DevOps and SQA for project releases.
• o Conduct timely status meetings for team to track the progress
• o Maintain Dashboards and ADS for feature completion.
• o Timely presentations in front of DevOps status calls
• o Process initiatives to make Rock solid FW and deliverables with 0 bugs escape ratio.
• o Mentor and guide the team for proper approaches in design discussion and bug
• resolutions.
• o Focus more on automation for verification teams to achieve velocity.

Oct 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Description : This is Linux based embedded device acting as communication module for different types of ITRON meters. The role is take care of end to end system for complete project and make sure that release should happen without any bug. The work includes at every level i.e. OS/application level, kernel level, meter features level and mainly CISCO router connectivity with devices through RF mesh network protocol. Good experience in metering protocol i.e. DLMS/Cosem and c1222/c1219.
• Responsibilities: o
• o Support the product and resolve customer raised issues and quries.
• o Monitor the Dev status, QA cycle, for end to end testing of product.
• o Includes porting and flashing all latest software on devices and make release bug free.
• o Make sure to run regular sanity test for builds
• o CISCO routers, CGR configuration for RF mesh communication
• o Team management and maintain KPI related data for team

Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Project Name : Support for customized debian kernel ---Virtualization
• Role : Project Lead
• Description : Handled and gave support for issues on customized debian kernel for servers. Closely worked with open source/proprietary kernel debugging and testing tools. Hands on system programming for wheezy/squeeze kernel.
• Responsibilities:
• o Role is to handle issues raised in debian kernel. o Hands on debian package management. o Kernel building and programming. o Deal with kernel configurations as per hardware and initialization scripts. o Kernel debugging and testing using open source/proprietary tools.
• o Meeting with client for process improvement
• Tools/Languages used: Kernel testing tools i.e. LTP, HP proprietary testing tools for kernel
• Skills achieved: Linux kernel architecture, file system and Linux networking
• Projects for Mphasis HP Oct 2013-June 2014
• Project Name : Linux virtualization Support Program - Hypervisor development
• Role : Delivery Project Lead
• Description : Lighthouse is a new product of HP and Hypervisor is a feature of it offered in high end enterprise laptops. Lighthouse aims to take advantage and make better use of advanced CPU’s virtualization abilities and build solutions on top of these abilities that can be managed from a cloud-based infrastructure. The project was to support headless hypervisor.
• Responsibilities: o Being a Project Delivery Lead role was to manage team and take care of successful deliverables in given deadlines.
• Tools/Languages used: Linux, C programming
• Skills achieved: Linux and virtualization

Mar 2006 – Oct 2013 · 7 yrs 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Project leader for “Simputer Educational-kit” Project Description:
• Lead the project “Simputer Educational Kit”. The objective of project was to convert a handheld device “Simputer” into an educational platform/board. Configure and port Linux kernel for modified hardware of Simputer device. Work at S/W and H/W level for mobile applications development.
• Application Level: Graphical user interface programming using GTK
• Operating System Interface level: Developed smart card reader and writer and map it to GUI
• Linux core kernel level: Write device driver for char type memory devices and GPIOs for ARM.
• Responsibilities:
• Planning to execute the project from requirement to delivery
• Data and source transfer from Encore Technologies, Bangalore
• Distribute the work among team and lead them for execution
• Technical contribution for Kernel configuration and implementing, adding new GPIO device driver on device
• Implement GUI for smartcard application
• Tools/Languages used: C, GTK1.2, Linux 2.6.18, GNU ARM GCC
• Skills achieved: Kernel Configuration, Smartcard Programming, Kernel module programming