Sep 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• An innovative person with over 17 years of experience who drives the multiple CardBKC’s validation projects for the internal & external customers release which contributes to the success of major development projects in the technology space.
• Key strengths
• Driving the validation of CardBKC/HW support/Remote infrastructure enablement
• Enabling/Planning the validation strategy of the CardBKC releases which is integrated with multiple component like kernel driver, media, mesa, compute etc. for the multiple platforms working with multiple stakeholders including CI, validation, development teams.
• Ensuring quality gates, metrices are met for CardBKC releases.
• Managing the team which enables the platform assembly & deployment to BU teams after factory shipments.
• Enabling the teams of BU developers, validation for the remote execution.
• Planning of test strategy, execution environment for integrated / discrete graphics area
• Working with multiple stakeholders about their requirements & expectations
• Negotiates the release cadence & delivery, managing the adhoc execution of delivery
• Procurement/Vendor/Contingent worker management, SOW amendments etc

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos

Jun 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Jun 2016 – May 2017 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Ramped up an SCM team from scratch
• Hired and ramped up a team a Devops/integration team to manage build/release and automation across multiple product lines
• One of the first engineers hired in India. Worked closely with China based IT, Cloud & SCM teams to setup a VM based development environment for an initial team of 50+ engineers along with setting up of a Git/Repo mirrors
• Implementation of a Jenkins based CI system. Piloted system in India and rolled out same across multiple R&D sites (China, US) including following
• A mechanism to automate testing of daily builds and report generation
• Reporting Dashboards/Developer tools to monitor and triage branch health
• Setting up strategy to generate, maintain & store the release builds for India & global sites

May 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

• Lead a team responsible for integration/release of Android on QC chipsets.
• Worked closely with Qualcomm product management and PE teams to plan, productize, release and support OEM commercialization for multiple chipsets across Android releases. Worked closely with teams across multiple sites (US, India and external ODC) to plan/execute/track effort across sites
• Responsible for initial Android bring-up on both new Silicon and Android upgrade rollout on existing chipsets. Worked closely with engineering teams across BSP/Kernel, Multimedia (Audio, Display/Graphics) and Telephony to bring up Android on multiple SoC
• Overall responsible for all release activities to both external customers (OEMs) and internal teams.
• Implemented improvements in release/upgrade process to ensure OEM customers got access to Google Public code within 24 hours of release from Google (down from 4 days initially).
• Implemented automated tools/process improvements for auto-propagation of critical fixes/security patches across branches for both public and Qualcomm proprietary code.
• Experienced in working closely with OEMs to help them plan/execute their Android upgrade programs as part of specific joint lab activities for major customers (Samsung, Huawei etc.).

Oct 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

•  Worked with people within and across the organizational boundaries to build agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve issues and create consistent practices
•  Leading, planning & executing the triaging, integration & release activities, and making 250+/year external releases to customers
•  Resource planning, mapping to projects
•  Planning, execution of upgrading the AOSP to QCOM chipsets
•  AOSP upgrades planned/executed for jb (mr2), KK, L, M
•  Bring-up activities performed with pdk*, early access source codes during upgrades
•  Integration & release support to customers through public/private CAF & grease (proprietary)
•  Change propagation & follow-up with tech teams
•  SBA releases support
•  Innovative ideas to improve the automation systems
•  Pre-SIL bring-up activities, SOD etc
•  Technical support to other team members as an when required

Dec 2011 – Oct 2012 · 10 mos · Bangalore

•  Worked as Team leader with people within and across the organizational boundaries to build agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve issues and create consistent practices
•  Experience in interacting, coordinating and business as usual practices with customers and third-party vendors
•  Single point of contact to make sure that all the NCP deliveries are on time to the product programs
•  Main contact person for the ENO SW releases, error investigation, change requests and configuration changes
•  Interface between the PI & NCP for the platforms
•  Technical support to other team members as an when required

Oct 2011 – Nov 2011 · 1 mo · Bangalore

Apr 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

May 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

Dec 2004 – Apr 2008 · 3 yrs 4 mos