Nov 2016 – Aug 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Boulder, Colorado

Jun 2015 – Nov 2015 · 5 mos · Boulder, CO

• Primary responsibility included delivering a functional MVP for an automated, indoor, wall-mounted (vertical) garden enabled via IoT technologies for remote monitoring and control.
• Evaluated and identified a suitable IoT platform (Particle Core/Photon) to build the monitoring and control circuit for the connected garden.
• Designed the circuit, delivered the electronics and integrated the same into several vertical garden prototypes built by the team. Also developed and validated the web software (using MeteorJS) to enable true remote IoT operation of the garden.
• Presented the product via multiple live demos — shortlisted amongst top 10 finalists at the 2015 annual IPSO challenge; enabled potential partnership opportunities with industrial design firms; explored fund-raising opportunities with investors.

Jan 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Boulder, Colorado

• Responsibilities include establishing FunGram as a local business engaged in providing computer science education to grade school children, while being profitable.
• Identified a business opportunity in the area of computer science education for grade school children and developed/validated age-appropriate Arduino based curriculum.
• Forged meaningful partnerships with local schools and school districts and non-profit organizations to conduct over 30 after-school classes and summer camps for children aged 9 and above.
• Identified and established relationships with vendors in China to source Arduino and related electronic materials for the classes.
• Grew the business by hiring employees and teaching more than 200 students in the greater Boulder area within the last 18 months, while receiving excellent parent-student feedback.

Nov 2010 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Boulder, CO

• Primary responsibility was to develop the two different SaaS applications that the company brought to market in the 4 years of its existence.
• Conceived, built and deployed a unique Ruby on Rails enabled SaaS app (Skillsume.com) that combined a professional networking platform, a built-in resume parser as well as an automated referral/matching engine on the backend.
• Important lessons learnt about customer development, MVP, lean development methodologies and Agile product development.
• Built and deployed a second SaaS product using Ruby on Rails — a QR-code enabled “lost+found” solution to protect personal and corporate assets.
• Enabled successful customer acquisitions by delivering the key technology pieces in time.

Jun 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• As a System on Chip (SoC) lead, was responsible for definition, implementation, delivery and commercialization of a complex semiconductor chip. Directed all aspects of ASIC development.
• Led a team of ~20 engineers to build a complex semiconductor chip with ~280 million transistors.
• Managed cross-functional teams spread across the globe to bring the chip to fruition.
• Defined and implemented the most critical technical module of the chip.
• Ensured timely and first time commercial success of the chip by preemptively avoiding several potential roadblocks.

Mar 1998 – May 2008 · 10 yrs 2 mos

• Assumed various engineering roles in the 10 years, ranging from embedded software developer to leading a small team of hardware (ASIC) engineers.
• Developed software modules in C to implement LCD device drivers, SMS service layer software and others on a proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS).
• Designed and implemented working FPGA prototypes of a high speed serial link protocol (MDDI).
• Delivered and enabled the integration of the MDDI IP block to all chip (ASIC) teams within Qualcomm by supervising the work of 3 other engineers.
• Awarded multiple patents by USPTO and equivalent organizations in others parts of the world.
• Enabled MDDI to be adopted as an industry standard by VESA.

Jun 1996 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida Area, India

• As an tools development engineer, identified issues with existing in-house software tools and proposed and developed a new, more powerful tool and several useful scripts to improve the overall ASIC library design flow.