Prathewsha Kannan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

25 years of experience in software engineering leadership.
Established strong software tool development teams.
Led career development programs and training initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Semiconductor and Healthcare software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentProject ManagementConsumer ElectronicsEmbedded SystemsMedical Systems

Other Skills

Platform Software tools developmentProject planningRequirements gatheringQA TestingAutomationCollaborationRequirements collectionExecutionQuality assurancePerformance optimizationTraining and mentoringDesignDeliveryProblem solving

About

Software Engineering Director with 25 yrs of experience in leading and managing software development teams across various domains such as Embedded, Medical systems and Semi conductor. Established strong Software tool development team with complete ownership. Expanded further by scaling over a period of few years and took more ownership in other areas of Tool development like CPU, GPU, and Data Center support. Had been Women’s forum champion for Bangalore site for about 2 yrs. Lead various career development programs and training. Arranged external speaker sessions, fun activities and executive round table sessions. Developed excellent working relationship and global team interaction skills through my career with engineering teams of US, Hungary, China, Korea, Canada and Taiwan.

Experience

25 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

18 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Amd

Director Software Engineering

Aug 2007 – Present · 18 yrs 9 mos

End to end ownership of Platform Software tools development for AMD CPU and GPU processors. Creating and driving roadmap and vision for the Platform tools.
Project planning, requirements gathering, development and execution, QA Testing, automation and delivery to Internal and external customers followed by support.
Good Collaboration across various teams such as design, BIOS, Firmware, PSP, diagnostics, post-silicon Validation and customer engineering.

Platform Software tools developmentProject planningRequirements gatheringQA TestingAutomationCollaboration+2

Samsung india electronics ltd.

Lead Engineer

Jul 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

Lead multiple projects for consumer electronics such as Digital photo frame, PC monitors, Thin client etc..
Worked with Korean counterparts on project requirements collection and execution.

Project managementRequirements collectionExecutionProject ManagementConsumer Electronics

Hcl technologies

Technical Lead

Feb 2004 – Jun 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Technically lead software development and quality assurance of Embedded application development toolkit.
Lead application development efforts for offsite (Japan) client which involved fine tuning and performance optimization of graphics library code for LCD and TV display.
Trained and mentored fresh joiners to the team.
Received awards for key contributions.

Software developmentQuality assurancePerformance optimizationTraining and mentoringEmbedded SystemsSoftware Development

Ge healthcare

Design Engineer

Aug 2000 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Software development of Core components of a Distributed Software platform in an Xray digital medical systems. Design and delivery of some of the core modules of medical system’s software eco system.
Have good experience in working with global teams such as US, Hungary and China.
Received awards for key contributions and problem solving.

Software developmentDesignDeliveryProblem solvingMedical SystemsSoftware Development