Apr 2023 – Dec 2023 · 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• IC and Leader responsible for OS/Platform software on enterprise switches. Maintenance of virtualized solutions for ADC, loadbalancers, NAT and TPS solutions. Providing HW acceleration with DPDK ports and updates. Consistently align with customer roadmap to realize their next generation product families.

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Integrating IOT and CAN J1939/UDS stack for remote diagnostics and ARAI AIS was key highlight. Lead the development cycle from proof of concept stage to manufacturing. Established process, tools and guidelines. Created deliverable list and stages for acceptance. Conducted product evaluations as per industry standards and certification of product. Mentor and guide team. Designed system to meet DFMEA and Cyber Security principles.

Mar 2017 – Mar 2022 · 5 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Led the development of an ADAS platform with hardware-agnostic functionality. Primary focus was on performance and safety goals through strategic component and design selection. Directed the development of display, camera, and I/O subsystems across infotainment platforms running on Android, QNX, and Yocto embedded Linux. Addressed critical issues across various product lines and production stages, ensuring seamless system integration. Possess expertise in USB, camera, display, telematics, and storage devices. Conducted feasibility analyses and provided architectural support for updates to legacy products. Integrated online Software update mechanism for POC project with complex partitioning scheme and variants. Spearheaded platform software initiatives for IVI, TCU, and ADAS projects for an APAC-region automotive OEM.

Oct 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Automotive infotainment system software analysis. Debugged and fixed performance issues in production software. Integrated Android Auto for Genivi based reference design. Designed and implemented gesture recognition software for Photo viewer and Map applications.

Nov 2013 – Mar 2014 · 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• Firmware development of RFC based features for TOE
• Implemented basic features related with Ticket management and vlan management code.

May 2006 – Nov 2013 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Hyderbad-Pune

• Firmware for Audio processing engine. (June-2013)
• Audio processing subsystem has manages data decode and multiplexing subsystem.
• Worked on porting open source little kernel for ARM A9 processor. Complete ARM A9 Cluster initialization was done. Drivers for GIC, distributor, timers, and UART were written.
• Along with that data management from the CPU to Audio accelerator was done.
• Debugger dongle for ARM. (April-2013)
• Design and development of T30 based software.
• USB Vendor Class driver was developed. Ported PCI debug port driver from a reference design.
• Linux application for connecting a PC based debugger daemon like openOCD with a custom fpga interface over usb and LAN was created.
• Device reliability management. (December-2012)
• Design and development of system access, control points in Linux kernel.
• User space daemon was implemented. Daemon monitored temperature, voltages and time spend by the device creating a histogram. Hooks for specific voltage rail measurement were added by in linux subsystem. Data was saved across device boots.
• Display android tablet output on TV. (July-2012)
• Enhance available display driver to support additional display resolution, type and output. Implementation of device driver for TVOUT, video DAC controller
• device driver for new version of SPI controller (Feb-2012)
• Overlooked complete software development lifecycle for new IP.SW design documents and schedule creation. Re-architect solution to make use of new HW features and limitations.
• Tests were executed over FPGA giving HW confidence with implementation.
• Recommended improvements for Hardware interface in SPI Controller.
• Other achievements
• Patching of per cpu thread optimization available on Linux-next.
• Experimental work to fix cpu affinity issues faced on tegra.
• Debugging performance drops due to CPU hot plug for test benchmarks on tegra.
• Kernel patch application and debugging for high memory support. This enabled use of 1 GB Ram memory on phone.

Feb 2004 – Apr 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Designed and developed Embedded systems applications and components for consumer electronics handheld devices .
• Reference Media Player design for FPGA (2005)
• As a development engineer created and integrated low level controller drivers. Created embedded application for a Audio Player. Created design documentation as per UML.
• HW controller driver for DAC, UART, GPIO Keypad, Timer
• Implementation of Model code for MVC pattern system architecture
• Custom SDMMC driver for Seagate CE-ATA HDD (2005)
• Implemented MMC 4.0 protocol with custom extensions. Designed driver to implement add-on spec for CE-ATA.