Kiran Kumar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expertise in audio and speech processing.
Proven experience in DSP optimization and algorithm development.
Rich productization experience across global teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in Audio Processing with a focus on DSP and algorithm optimization.

Contact

g.kirankumar@outlook.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Digital Signal ProcessorsAlgorithmsSystem on a Chip (SoC)ARMSoundDebuggingSoftware DevelopmentAudio EngineeringProgrammingArtificial Intelligence (AI)OptimizationMicrocontrollersSignal ProcessingHardware ArchitectureEmbedded Systems

About

Specialized in Audio and Speech processing. Experienced in Audio compression, compression quality, Psycho acoustics, acoustics. Experienced in DSP processors code and memory optimization. Avid hobby project developer with cross domain knowledge of hardware and firmware. Rich productization experience of working and coordinating with teams across different geographic locations. Knowledge of Video and image processing. Experienced in C, Assembly, Matlab, Python programing. Knowledge of Machine learning.

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Infineon technologies

Principal Application Engineer

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Amd

Member Of Technical Staff

May 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on low power voice wake solutions based on a DSP co-processor.

Knowles intelligent audio

Staff Engineer

May 2014 – Feb 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Audience Communication Systems India Pvt Limited is acquired by Knowles Corporation and is now part of Knowles Intelligent Audio.
Worked on realizing the algorithms developed in Matlab as software solutions on Qualcomm Hexagon DSP. Optimized MCPS and memory. Worked on Snapdragon development boards for real time verification. Worked on providing solutions for easy debugging on hardware for the team.
Worked in a challenging environment which demands understanding of existing algorithms to provide quick and effective solutions to issues reported by customers while meeting time critical schedules.
Worked on Voice wake solutions for fine tuning of algorithm performance.

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Technical Lead Engineer

Mar 2010 – May 2014 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Worked on Audio and Video codec development for processor performance validation.
Worked on improving the quality of MP3 Encoder and optimized WMA Pro Decoder.
Experienced in performance optimization on heterogeneous processor architectures by offloading compute intensive kernels to acceleration units. Worked on designing modules to parallelize the code to maximize resource utilization. Worked on Cache memory management for improved performance.

Ambrado solutions private limited

Senior Engineer

Aug 2009 – Feb 2010 · 6 mos

Worked on audio codec development on Storm-1 Multi core environment, development and hardware porting for multichannel AAC Encoder and Decoder. The Challenges includes design of the encoder modules for the best possible use of available multi cores while minimizing the interlane communication.

Aricent

software engineer

Jun 2006 – Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Handled responsibilities as developer for various audio codec porting design changes and assembly level optimization.
Worked for optimizing Scalable Lossless Decoder which is one of the flavors of AAC on ARM 9E architecture.
Optimized HE-AAC stereo on ARM 9E.
Modified the existing highly optimized MP3 decoder for OpenMax DL standard compliance. This involves redesign of module interfaces and redesign of the quantization module while retaining the existing optimization level and memory requirement on ARM architecture.