Yogesh Sarda

VP of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India26 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a 150+ member Camera Software team.
  • Developed industry-leading Camera Software on Snapdragon chipsets.
  • Proven record of team turnaround and rebuilding.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Technology expert with extensive experience in software development and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Camera SoftwareEmbedded SoftwareSoftware DevelopmentSdk DevelopmentIp Tv SolutionsMobile Solutions

Other Skills

Snapdragon chipsetsAndroidWindowsQNXBMPDVB-HC++OpenMAXMobileTVIP TVMPEG2C/C++JAVAPHPWindows Mobile

About

Result-oriented software professional, and leader with 20+ years of experience working in India and USA (5+ years) across established organizations and start-ups Currently leading Camera Software team of 150+ to develop and commercialize industry-leading Camera Software on Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets across Mobile, XR, Compute, Automotive domains. Thousands of phones, devices have been launched, Snapdragon chipsets shipment on the Android platform itself has crossed multi-billion. Experienced in commercial products software development and commercialization support, leading software teams in diverse domains like Camera/Imaging solutions, embedded software, mobile enterprise software, IP-TV, Tools, SDK Extensive experience in working with global teams spanning the USA, China, Korea, and Canada across Software development, Systems, Customer Engineering, and Product Marketing teams. Successful mentor and leader for 150+ member team helping them improve technical, communication, and organizational skills to deliver quality deliverables and maintain high morale, and accountability in a highly dynamic and demanding environment. Proven record of turning around and rebuilding teams to deliver in dynamic product space Converted casual conceptual ideas into successful product accessories and support tools Practical implementation of modern software engineering techniques such as Agile development, prototyping, Scrum

Experience

26 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
17 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Qualcomm

5 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Director Engineering

Promoted

Dec 2017Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Principal Manager

Promoted

Nov 2015Nov 2017 · 2 yrs

  • Leading Android Camera Software team to develop and commercialize industry leading Camera Software on Snapdragon chipsets. 1000s of phones have been launched. Snapdragon chipsets shipment on Android platform has crossed 1 billion. Prior to Android, led Camera solution on Windows, QNX, BMP platforms.
  • Camera being differentiating factor for mobile phones and its non-standardized behavior definition, there are plethora of feature requests from various OEMs demanding different behavior on the same chipset and software platform. Delivering on these new requests along with the common/standard features based on chipset capabilities requires flexible, dynamic approach combined with controlled yet adaptive workflow.
Camera SoftwareSnapdragon chipsetsAndroidWindowsQNXBMP+1

Senior Staff Manager

Oct 2011Nov 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Staff Manager

Mar 2009Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Extended systems (later ianywhere, sybase subsidiary and now part of sap)

3 roles

Manager Software Development

Promoted

Apr 2008Feb 2009 · 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • DVB-H was emerging technology then, the team worked as-if it was a start-up.
  • Development of powerful tool suite and SDK, Affinitee, targeted to DVB-H MobileTV and graphics platforms. Worked with remote teams in USA and Canada to define software requirements. Has complete ownership for Affinitee from requirement acquisition to deployment and support.
  • Affinitee provides configurable tools for RF performance analysis, over-the-air monitoring of network parameters, field tests, MBRAI, NorDig (RF performance specifications) automation test suite, logging, registers map, memory and hardware block verification. Affinitee is developed in C++ using design patterns like Adapter, Façade, Factory, Singleton.
  • Design and development of various MobileTV demo applications for trade shows like 3GSM, CES, Computex.
  • Involved in developing middleware for handheld multimedia framework based on OpenMAX IL. Supported various customer programs for integrating middleware in customer phones.
DVB-HSDK DevelopmentC++OpenMAXMobileTVSoftware Development

Staff Engineer (Tech Lead)

Nov 2006Mar 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Software Design Engineer

Jul 2001Oct 2005 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Boise, Idaho, USA

  • Design, development, enhancements and maintenance of OneBridge Mobile Groupware Client for Windows Mobile, PocketPC and Smartphone devices. OneBridge client synchronizes PIM (personal information management) data, files, databases registry on device with the remote server. It supports PUSH feature that delivers emails and other PIM data to device without user interaction keeping the device updated at all times. Developed in C++ using eVC++, Windows Mobile, PocketPC Smartphone SDK.
  • Design and development of diagnostic software tool that help Technical Support Team resolve customer issues. It retrieves all the necessary information from the machine, zip it and mail it to Support team.
  • Development of software component, called Desktop Connector, on desktop PC that provides TCP/IP network connection to the connected mobile device. It is part of OneBridge suite.
  • Design and development of distributed software for testing OneBridge server scalability. It concurrently launches customized synchronization sessions on OneBridge desktop Windows client on multiple machines. It gathers and displays data dynamically to better administer the scale test.
  • Design and development of distributed automated test suite. Automated 72% of tests in span of 4 months. Developed in C++, C#, ASP.net
IP TVMPEG2C/C++JAVAPHPSoftware Development+1

Qualcore logic (for ip video systems)

Project Lead

Oct 2005Oct 2006 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

  • My responsibility was to seed remote SW team for IP Video Systems, a start-up in San Jose, CA, USA. It was later acquired by Barco.
  • Hired, trained and managed eight-member software team for developing products in space of IP TV and video collaboration using MPEG2 and a propriety protocol. Design and development was spread over different modules implemented in different languages and platforms like C/C++, JAVA, PHP on Windows and Linux, Java script on STBs (set-op-box).
  • Individual contribution was Desktop Client implemented in C++ on Windows using DirectDraw, Winsock APIs.

Computer science department, utah state university

Research Assistant

May 2000Jun 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo · Logan, Utah, USA

  • Development of marketing campaign planning software for engineering equipments company. Developed with lightweight software engineering methodology based on Extreme Programming (XP). Developed in Visual basic 6.0 and MS Access. Used UML as conceptual modelling language.
C++Windows MobileASP.netSoftware DevelopmentMobile Solutions

Tech mahindra (mbt)

Software Engineer

Apr 1998Jul 1999 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Development of front-end system for network management system of British Telecom, UK. It empowers users to design and layout network between two end points depending different parameters. Involved in development, maintenance and testing. Developed in Developer 2000 and Oracle 7.3

Education

Rutgers Business School

Mini-MBA

Apr 2020Jul 2020

Utah State University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Aug 1999May 2001

Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Mechanical Engineering

Aug 1993May 1997

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