Jun 2006 – Oct 2014 · 8 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Involved in design, development of several multimedia frameworks, reference apps for various TI SoCs (Davinci Series) enabling products like DVRs, NVRs, Encoder / Decoder / Transcoder Boxes, Set Top Boxes & Audio Systems.
• Part of McFW (Multi Channel FrameWork) design & development which is the base of several product lines in Video Surveillance.
• Lead USB Framework (uSDK) - a framework for data access control, decode & post processing for audio content from USB MSC & iPOD (MFi) for Performance Audio Framework (PAF) on TI DSP Device part of AVR products.
• Involved in design, implementation of input / output agnostic HD transcode engine - Audio Video Transcode engine (AVTE). Various input, output data access interfaces - usb, mobile, network & transcoding were enabled and multiple video, audio, container formats were supported.
• Part of Audio Video Media Engine (AVME) foundation software for Set Top Boxes (IP & Broadcast) & led several customers to production.
• Involved in implementation of Remote Media Display framework using gstreamer & DLNA stack
• Involved in TPPSS (Transport Packet Processor) IP Spec definition by implementing Cycle Accurate C mirror models of various MPEG2-TS data flows
• Responsible for software release process, handling change / config management activities in addition to development activities. Involved in several successful system software deliveries & integration support enabling on time customer product launches.

Oct 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led Set Top Box Software Development activities - OCAP (Open Cable Application Platform) framework & TV-Anytime middleware. Middleware comprehended various standards & technologies – OCAP (MHP), JAVA-TV, JMF, DOCSIS, POD, XML, Web Services. A complete OCAP based product implemented with compliance testing using CMTS

Feb 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Developed a generic framework for Set Top Box & video applications using UML methodology based on DVB-Linux HAL. All processing components of a video system (frontend, Parser, A/V decoder, Teletext / Subtitle Decoder, Player, AVSync) were developed as resusable processing objects.

Jul 1999 – Feb 2003 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Responsible for delivery end-to-end software solution with GUI for various customers launching DVB-CI/FTA Set Top Box products.
• Lead automated GUI Development platform kit product called eGOS (Embedded Graphics Operating System) which is an authoring tool to automate customer specs directly into GUI menus / control code
• Ported XWindows, TCP-IP Stack, HTML Browser, JVM on platforms with limited OS / Hardware low level support to enable an interactive network enabled products