Ashwini Patil

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

8 years of experience in audio driver development.
Led audio solutions for automotive Tier-1s.
Recognized for contributions to user experience improvements.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in Automotive Audio Systems with a strong focus on DSP and driver development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Audio Driver DevelopmentDsp FirmwareUser ExperienceDsp ServicesBug Solving

Other Skills

LinuxALSADevice driversSoftware Sample Rate ConverterDriver unit test frameworkFastRPC supportEmbedded SystemsComputer VisionMachine LearningMultimediaDigital Image ProcessingAlgorithmsOperating SystemsData StructuresC

About

8 years of experience in Audio driver Developement with a proven record in the automotive industry. Specialized in designing and developing audio drivers for car infotainment systems, contributing to enhanced in-car experiences. Knowledge on multicore CPU architecture, memory management, interrupt handling, synchronization and scheduling of resources. Strong understanding of ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), audio device driver and audio DSP firmware.

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Samsung semiconductors india r&d

Staff Engineer

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka · Hybrid

Lead the development of audio solutions on DSP firmware and device drivers for Linux/QNX environments
Conceptualized, designed, and developed software mux and demux on DSP firmware, from proof of concept to productization for multiple automotive Tier-1s
Enhanced the audio stack by integrating a software Sample Rate Converter (SRC) through development in Linux and DSP firmware.
Brought up samsung machine driver to support compressed offload for the first time and debugged ALSA driver to fix various issues. This improved the capability of the PCM framework to support mp3/aac etc. Along this way, also contributed to low level driver development involving GIC, MAILBOX, DMA etc.
Being a senior member in the team, I play a key role in the ramp-up and mentoring of new joiners for various Audio submodules.

Audio driver developmentDSP firmwareLinuxALSADevice drivers

Qualcomm

2 roles

Engineer

Feb 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Member of Audio driver development for Automotive platform
Worked on Audio driver development automotive platform for car infotainment.
Design and development of new features for new chipsets for enhancing in car experience.
Worked on improvisations in User experience during Sub-system restart.
Responsible for porting and improving the driver unit test framework for new chipsets.
Presented ideation for improving in-car user experience at Qualcomm Tech day,
Submitted paper for the same. Received appreciation and Qualstar for the idea.

Audio driver developmentUser experienceDriver unit test framework

Engineer

Mar 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

Member of DSP services and OpenDSP team
Worked on Hexagon Access Program for Snapdragon
Bring up of FastRPC support on new chipsets
Design, development and bug solving of FastRPC layer functionality for different DSPs.
Single point of contact for bugs related to 3rd party module integration into Audio/Voice framework, raised by Qualcomm customers.
Received multiple Recognition awards(Qualstar) for – contribution in bring up of New chipset, excellence in customer support, in-depth technical analysis.

DSP servicesFastRPC supportBug solving