Pandiarajan L — Engineering Manager

Experienced Engineering Manager in Mobile chipset & IoT product development and commercialization. Strong hands on expert in designing and driving the system product SW/HW including the critical functions of Power/Thermal of various Mobile & IoT products. Technology Leader: Strategic Management | Business Delivery | Product Development | Project Management | Product Commercialization | System Software Solution Architect | Consulting (Wireless/Mobile/ IoT) Develop Customized System SW Solutions ◙ Qualcomm Mobile Segment(Value/Mid/Premium Tier) Responsible for Snapdragon 200, 400, 600 family SW product power/thermal and commercialization spanning across 28/14/10nm processes. ◙ Qualcomm IoT Segment ○ Wearables/SmartAssts/ConnCAM/ SmartDoorBell/AssetTracker/Kids Tracker/SmartMeters ○ Industrial, SmartCities & Home IoT products ○ CATM1/NB-IoT & PSM ◙ Automotive – Auto Development Platform ADP/Linux Vehicle/Android-AGL ◙ Product development experience in wireless - WIFI and 2G/3G/4G & 5G NR ◙ Special focus on Power and Thermal KPIs ○ Infra Power, Modem power, Connectivity, sensors & Days of Use/DoU ○ Power grid analysis, PMIC – Switcher/LDO cost vs power analysis ○ Competitive analysis of various chipsets to understand the limitations ○ Optimize/Tune HW/SW data path, Infra features, CPU, DDR, MM & other cores ○ Benchmark analysis – Dhrystone, Manhattan & other industry std KPIs # Critical trade-off analysis between Power/Performance & Stability # Thermal HW & SW analysis of Mobile & IoT chipsets - Peak current analysis, HW & SW thermal mitigation # Thermal form factor and use case analysis ◙ Exposure to benchmark analysis of XR – VR/AR Engineering, Artificial Intelligence/ML & TPU vector processing ◙ Expert in CMCC China Mobile device certification of Power/Thermal ◙ Architect Engineer of QUALCOMM’s first PSM NB-IoT Demo in CES & MWC ◙ Bagged ‘NXP CTO award’ for HWA prototype implementation for WiMEDIA-WUSB

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor and IoT Engineering Manager with a focus on product development and commercialization.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience: 27 yrs 1 mo

Skills

Engineering Management
Product Development
Software Development
Project Management

Career Highlights

Expert in Power and Thermal management for Mobile and IoT products.
Led Qualcomm's first PSM NB-IoT Demo at CES & MWC.
Awarded NXP CTO award for innovative WiMEDIA-WUSB prototype.

Work Experience

Google

Engineering Manager (5 yrs 1 mo)

Apple

Engineering Manager (2 yrs 9 mos)

Qualcomm

Engineer, Principal/ Manager (9 yrs 6 mos)

NXP Semiconductor India Pvt Ltd

Sr Technical Lead (4 yrs 6 mos)

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd working for Samsung Mobile

Sr Software Engineer/Module Leader (5 yrs 3 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Bharathiar University

at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans School, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Pandiarajan L

Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India27 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Power and Thermal management for Mobile and IoT products.
Led Qualcomm's first PSM NB-IoT Demo at CES & MWC.
Awarded NXP CTO award for innovative WiMEDIA-WUSB prototype.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor and IoT Engineering Manager with a focus on product development and commercialization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Project EngineeringSystem on a Chip (SoC)Power OptimizationEmbedded SystemsThermal AnalysisProduct CommercializationWireless TechnologiesEmbedded SoftwareChipset DevelopmentIoTWIFIWireless USBDevice DriversSoftware DesignTelecommunications

About

Experience

27 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

5 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Google Silicon - Power & Perf

Project EngineeringSystem on a Chip (SoC)Software DevelopmentPower OptimizationEmbedded SystemsEngineering Management+1

Apple

Engineering Manager

Jul 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Wireless Technologies & Ecosystem

Qualcomm

Engineer, Principal/ Manager

Dec 2008 – Jun 2018 · 9 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

As a Thought Leader, holds the distinction of working on different technology domains and successfully driven various products in Qualcomm Mobile/IOT- Smartphone, wearables, automotive, smartAssists, ConnectedCAM, NB-IoT PSM, IoT smartCities, Cloud IoT and consumer electronics.
Value Offered as a Technology Engineering Manager :
Driving Innovation
Multiple New Product Commercialization
Establish And Grow Mid-Size Operations
Executive Customer Engagement
Deliver Technology Roadmap
Large-Scale And Complex Product Portfolio Execution
Product/Program Management
Assertive Manager , Team building and People Manager
○ Well versed with multi stage silicon SW process from architecture design engagement, Pre-sil validation, Post-sil verification, SW data path, feature validation, fine tuning, protocol conformance and meeting the bench mark KPIs
○ Single handedly drove QCOMs first critical value tier chipset 8916/8939 quad & octa cores chipset power & thermal. Acted as a key driver & execution manager – thereby coordinating with various geographies, multi SW/HW team to establish best in class chipset KPIs.
○ Defined Power & thermal optimization of various QCOM mobile & IoT chipsets.
○ Took initiative of various IoT products & offerings, such as:
○ Wearables – Key fashion and fitness/Smart watch brand
○ Smart Assistants – Audio hub, IPCAM & ConnCAM /Sports CAM, CAM Door bell
○ Automobile – M2M, Telematics, Infotainment & Google Android Vehicle
○ Drove innovation/new initiatives on selected forward-looking technologies – directed new ideas, created roadmap and developed new solution offerings.
○ Created “Proof-of-concept” by having engagement with different teams – HW & SW to establish & prototype best in class idea/solutions.
○ Led the company to reduce the turnaround time to resolve power and thermal issues.
○ Successfully implemented new process, resource management & technology initiatives to drive low cost and best in class efficient model.

Power OptimizationThermal AnalysisProduct CommercializationWireless TechnologiesEmbedded SoftwareProduct Development+1

Nxp semiconductor india pvt ltd

Sr Technical Lead

Jun 2004 – Dec 2008 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore, India

o As Senior Tech lead responsible for project design, development & delivery of WIFI/Wireless USB (WiMEDIA) projects. Participated in WiMedia forum and instrumental in SW design & development of WUSB stack
o Bagged ‘NXP CTO award’ for HWA prototype implementation for WiMEDIA-WUSB.
o Team award for achieving WiMedia Certification for WUSB IP.
o Represented Philips Semiconductor Asia Media event and Technical Paper presentations.
o Key Contributor Incentive Award member.

WIFIWireless USBProject ManagementProduct DevelopmentEngineering Management

Larsen & toubro infotech ltd working for samsung mobile

Sr Software Engineer/Module Leader

Mar 1999 – Jun 2004 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

Industry experience in design, development and verification of embedded software for Mobile Handsets, Wireless Telecom - 3G-UMTS and CDMA, MMI, communication systems (MediaGateway, ATM), Device drivers, protocol stacks and project management.
Successfully managed the projects following the guidelines of PMLC/PDLC & SEI-CMM5.

Embedded SoftwareDevice DriversProject ManagementSoftware Development