Aug 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• At Cadence worked in Vision team in areas of imaging/video and machine learning accelerated DSP sub-systems.

May 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Jun 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Jun 2009 – May 2014 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Pune

• Have been working as consultant on multiple development projects with various clients. Some highlights are as below.
• Bringup Direct3D, OpenGL (graphics), DXVA (media) SW driver components for leading Graphics/CPU processor vendor’s new HW platform (under XP OS)
• Development on Microsoft DXVA framework, under XP’s WDM framework.
• Programming VC1, H264 HW Accelerated Multimedia Engine HW interface
• R&D project for Video Transcoding related algorithms, targeted for mobile operator’s backbone media servers.
• Objective of transcoding is, similar to Web Caching/Optimizations, where solution helps achieving Video related caching/optimization effectively helping operator to increase mobile load but at same time reducing extranet internet traffic.
• Work involved MMX, C optimizations, and Video related algorithms development
• SW firmware development for Camera+Video Encoder handware sub-system and developing the SW components for Multimedia camcorder, Video playback usecases on embedded device with native OS framework.

Sep 2005 – May 2009 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• At nVidia Pune centre, involved in setting up the Video team from base. Now team contributes to the mobile division(Tegra) by owning all video related work from Pune. Highlights of the activities involved are as below.
• Team management and team building for 15+ people.
• Providing technical guidance to team.
• Helping team to work efficiently at various fronts of new development, bug fixing, and supporting customer engineering teams.
• Facilitating Video team interaction with Product Management and Customer Engineering
• Handling Development and Customer related Bug fixing within the group.
• Setting and building awareness of development process among the team members.
• During initial phases, facilitating knowledge transfer from Santa-Clara team.

Sep 2000 – Aug 2005 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• At PACE Soft Silicon, was involved in building the video technology right from scratch. The highlights of the activities involved are as below.
• Involved in customer interactions in form of making technical feasibility and work estimates etc reports.
• Developing (C-based) reference basic video and imaging components: H263, MPEG4 Decoder, JPEG codecs, H264 Encoder, MPEG2 Decoder.
• Optimization of video and imaging components on various platforms: ARM9, xScale, Bulwarde (WMMX optimizations)
• Algorithm Development : Error Concealment MPEG-4 and H264, Post Processing for MPEG-4, H264 Encoder algorithms (Intra Prediction, Rate Control, Motion Estimation)
• Streaming Protocols: RTP packetization for Video Codecs, SDP, RTCP, SIP protocol understanding and porting to Streaming Player.
• System and OS Integration: AV synch players, Symbian (including assembly porting), TI OMAP DSP bios environment, PocketPC-2003, Symbian 7.0 Media Server based JPEG decoder
• Direct client interaction: Working onsite with team of 4, at TI and Motorola for 9 months.
• Client Interaction from offsite: involving project proposals, project scheduling, project tracking, and client interaction for bug resolution
• Interactions with in-house groups for development of MP4 file writers, Multimedia Framework Design, Transcoding Projects, Audio Codec Development, DShow Filter Development.

Mar 1999 – Aug 2000 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked in Multimedia team on video decoder and encoder implementations. Also worked on data driven media processor architecture to map video algorithms efficiently on it.