Nishanth Peethambaran

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

19 years of experience in embedded software design.
Led innovative audio technology projects at Harman.
Expert in system architecture and embedded systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Consumer Electronics with a focus on embedded systems and audio technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureEmbedded Systems

Other Skills

AndroidiOSREST APIscloud servicesaudio technologiesDSPUI/UX collaborationSecurity architecturePlatform approvalDevice certificatesSoftware platform architectureYoctoMiddleware integrationLinux stackFeasibility analysis

About

Experienced engineer lead with 19 years in embedded software design, development, implementation and validation. • Worked across multiple domains including Automotive/Consumer audio, mobile, automotive, video surveillance, television. • Proficient in Linux internals, RTOS, drivers, firmware, android, system integration, multi-core multi-threaded programming, application development and porting. • Hands-on experience with video processing, frameworks, AV synchronization. • Passion towards learning hardware architectures including processors, MMUs, IPs in depth. • Strengths include Logical analysis, Learning in depth, Designing with a vision forward, Quality of output, Work collaboration, Integrity.

Experience

25 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Harman international

2 roles

Fellow

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Distinguished Engineer

Oct 2016 – Mar 2022 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Working as a system/software architect for innovative products at Harman.
Currently architecting & implementing software based product providing consistent personalised audio experience across headphones/speakers/cars along with experiencing Audio technologies from Harman. Responsible for end to end product development and delivery including
Android/iOS applications with cloud, music player, music services, device management, personalising audio, integrating custom audio framework at native layer
Developing headunit android application & integrating audio framework in Android based headunit HAL
Control processing inside headphones using BLE commands for personalizing the audio.
Working with cloud team in Israel/India for defining REST APIs, deploying and running custom matlab services
Working with TIDAL to integrate their music services
Working with UI/UX teams for defining the user experience
Working with Acoustic Team in US/Germany with supporting tuning and deployment
Working with DSP teams in Germany in defining requirements and deploying in cloud/embedded applications.
Responsible for hiring, managing lean team of 3-4 internal team members with 4-10 external contractors & delivering for the internal and external demos
Prior assignments include:
Security architect for speaker series and working with google for platform approval and product approval in collaboration with google preferred vendor, Owns generating the model keys, getting it signed, safe custody of keys, defining the process for securely generating and provisioning per device certificates at factory.
Worked in collaboration with Microsoft and many internal teams to develop and productise the first speaker product supporting Cortana voice assistant. Co-owned software platform architecture and platform definition of yocto based custom distro integrating bsp & lower level of middleware from vendor,

AndroidiOSREST APIscloud servicesaudio technologiesDSP+3

Amd

Principal Member Technical Staff

May 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Worked as a system/solution architect for embedded customers using all open linux stack (mesa, libdrm,...). Role involved:
feasibility analysis and suggestions for custom solutions.
custom development/optimisations

Linux stackFeasibility analysisCustom solutionsEmbedded SystemsSystem Architecture

Broadcom

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2011 – May 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

As an android phone platform team member in broadcom,
Sole ownership of multimedia (linux) memory management, caches, iommu across platforms.
Interact with Internal, BSP, Architecture, ASIC, Customer support teams for memory management and iommu.
Evaluate and migrate to ION for entire multimedia memory needs.
iommu IP pre-Si validation, driver design, development and integration to linux 3.4 kernel
Design and implement a framework around ION and iommu configured from device-tree and queried from user-space to have binary compatibility across platforms.
Widevine Level1 DRM secure video path design and development with mobicore secure OS running in ARM trustzone.
Linux graphics driver design and development
Write custom shaders for colour conversion using graphics IP (SIMD)
Support pre-silicon validation on FPGA(chipit/palladium), silicon and android bringup

Memory managementMultimediaLinux kernelEmbedded SystemsSystem Architecture

Stmicroelectronics

Specialist

Sep 2009 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

As a TV firmware/bootloader team member, my responsibilities include:
Design and develop flash-less boot of a back-end SoC from front-end SoC in TV.
Pre-Si validation of I2C->T1 transactor and boot chain on FPGA platform (zebu/palladium).

Firmware developmentI2CFPGA validationEmbedded SystemsSystem Architecture

Stream processors, inc.

Senior MTS

Jan 2007 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

As Team lead and developer for the project - "Multi-Media Engine (MME) on SPI’s Storm-1 SoC platform".
Responsible for demos in trade shows and was involved in DVR reference design and customer system as an individual contributor as system engineer. Contributions was in design and development of custom media framework and components.

Media framework designDVR reference designEmbedded SystemsSystem Architecture

Intervideo

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

The company got acquired within 3 months of my joining. My responsibilities in the short span included hiring a team to work on DVB-H.

Analog devices

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2000 – Jun 2006 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Joined as Junior Software Engineer (grade E6); received various promotions and rose to Senior Software Engineer (grade E9) in Feb’05.
Member of teams for the following projects
Multimedia Infotainment system based on ‘MOST’ optical Network
Static Scheduler Development
Driver development
Application Porting