Mar 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr · Mountain View, California, United States

• Deputed from GlobalEdge to Google for Nest WiFi mesh router development activities

Oct 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• (Acquired by Capgemini)
• Working with Google for Nest WiFi Mesh Routers
• Working on next generation WiFi7 Qualcomm platforms, porting & bring-up activities of prplOS and prplMesh
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (QA, automation, chipset vendors, TPM) to identify blockers, drive solutions to resolution and ensure release deadlines are met.
• Drive customer discussions for the design and development of features and updating project deliverables & milestones.
• Conducted post-release analysis by monitoring Google Cloud dashboards for the AP software release, implementing corrective actions that resulted in a 10-20% reduction in bug filings
• Debugging and triagging customer issues, untangle the issues related to Wi-Fi connectivity, mesh (802.11s)
• Enhancing the client steering feature, neighbor report feature and Mesh link quality for the Nest WiFi Routers
• Optimized CPU utilization of AP stack daemons by 15-20%
• Merging the upstream security patches (FnF) to Google proprietary kernel
• Led the team in the end-to-end development and deployment of features to collect WLAN, kernel, and CPU statistics, and seamlessly upload the data to the cloud for analysis and monitoring
• Integration of upstream patches related to hostapd, wpa_supplicant, kernel changes
• Triaging the Google APs deployed in the fleet, analyze the cloud dashboards
• Addressed IOP related issues for the 6E clients resulting in 40% improvement in client device connectivity.
• Migration of mac802.11/ath10k Google proprietary changes from v4.14 to v5.4 kernel.
• Mentoring the engineers, creating design guides for the features, code review, test reports review and GIT review uploads

Jun 2021 – Oct 2021 · 4 mos

• Working with Google for Nest WiFi mesh router

Jun 2017 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs

• Working with Qualcomm for IoT platforms
• Developing SDK demo applications for the Qualcomm IoT platforms (QCA401X and QCA402X).
• Onboarding the IoT boards, AWS demo and UART AT demos were designed, developed, and tested.
• Integration of demos into the Qualcomm SDKs for the end customers usage.
• Involved in customer discussions for the design and architecture of the demo applications
• Engaged in the design, development of the Onboard of the Qualcomm based IoT boards to the Wi-Fi AP.
• Development of AWS demo on the platform side for the mobile APP fetching the sensors data from the cloud and display on the APP.
• Designing the UART AT specification guide for the Qualcomm IoT boards referring the Qualcomm APIs
• Lead the team in design and developing the UART AT demo (for the Wi-Fi, BLE, Zigbee and Thread protocols) on the Qualcomm IoT boards.
• Worked on the board bringing up activities based on QCA401x chipset
• Verifying the interfaces – I2C, SPI, PWM, GPIOs, PIR, ADC

Oct 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

• Deputed to Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd
• Supporting the board bring-up activity for WLAN chipset on MTP boards
• Integrating the Qualcomm WLAN drivers with the Android and build the Android image and the kernel
• Debugging and Validating the WLAN chips for multiple platforms
• Development of the automation tool for performing Wifi tests on QVIT hardware platform
• Involved in debugging and validation of common sub-system for WLAN chipset.
• Validating the sub-system components such as sensors, UART, PRNG, RAM and ROM bank masking

Mar 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on Virtual I/O engineering group (Acquisition of Xsigo Systems)
• Code maintenance of Virtual Ethernet adapter driver for proprietary Oracle Fabric Interconnect.
• Debugging virtual NIC drivers and PCI drivers
• Integration of Xsigo host drivers to Oracle UEK kernels
• Worked on Solaris platform - both on kernel and userland side
• Fixing bugs and hands on experience related to SAN boot and PXE boot configurations
• Maintenance of Xsigo option ROM Firmware for Infiniband HCA cards for remote booting features
• Worked on reimaging of initrd with the Xsigo drivers and integrating with the kernel images
• Virtual NIC (vNIC) host driver development, maintenance on Linux Platform (RHEL, OEL, OVM) and worked on Features enhancements of Virtual Ethernet adapters

Sep 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked on board bring-up activities for - ST Microsystem, Beagleboard and Marvel boards
• Building Android stack, Android kernel and porting them to various boards
• Design and Development of Android Wireless AP for Beagleboard with Qualcomm wireless drivers
• Integration of GSM modem, Bluetooth and Camera with Android
• Design, Implementation and Validation of Linux SPI EEPROM driver for the Beagle XM platform.
• Design, Implementation and Validation of ThreadX SD Host Contoller Driver for ST Microboard
• Power Optimization for Android Smartphones using the Governor algorithms