Kondapanaidu Thalapaneni

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

12 years of experience in automotive functional safety.
Expertise in ISO 26262 and safety management activities.
Proven track record in leading functional safety initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Functional Safety Expert in the Automotive industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Functional SafetyEmbedded SystemsSafety ManagementSafety AnalysisSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

ASpiceAgile MethodologiesAutomotiveEmbedded SoftwareFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)ISO 26262JiraSafety requirements analysisSoftware DevelopmentHARAFault Tree AnalysisSafety planADASISO26262

About

12 years of experience in various areas like Embedded developer and tester and functional safety(ISO26262) in automotive Electronic Control System like ESP and IPB and ADAS features ,ACC, EBP,AEB, ALK. - Experience in developing HARA by identifying Hazards using functional failure Analysis method(FTA,FMEA) and arriving the risk assessment by considering the operational situations and S,E,C parameter analysis. - Have good experience of understanding on ASIL concepts ,failure types, ASIL decomposition, Freedom from interface, FTTI calculations for safety goals and safety requirements, safe states definitions. - Experience on Failure analysis on various item at system level and software level like FMEA and FTA and theoretical knowledge on FMEDA,DFA. - Good Understanding on Automotive processes like ASPICE and Safety management activities such as safety plan, DIA and safety case and safety reviews and Audits and assessment's. - Experience in Embedded developing and testing like unit test , Component test and integration test . - Experience on functional safety validation test cases to test the safety requirements and also analyzed the test traces to verify the correctness of the testing. - Experience on safety analysis of SOTIF (ISO 21448).

Experience

12 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

3 mos

Current Experience

Opmobility

Functional safety Technical Lead

Mar 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Bangalore

ASpiceAgile MethodologiesAutomotiveEmbedded SoftwareFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)ISO 26262+6

Pi square technologies

Functional safety manager

Mar 2024 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

Working on functional safety at the software level for the lighting system (Front &Rear)

Safety AnalysisHARAJiraSafety requirements analysisFunctional SafetySafety Management

Gujtech

Functional safety expert

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Fault Tree AnalysisSafety planSafety AnalysisHARASafety requirements analysisFunctional Safety

Alten india

Sr.Technical & Functional safety Specialist

Jul 2022 – Apr 2023 · 9 mos · India

JiraFault Tree AnalysisFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)Safety planISO26262Safety Analysis+4

Continental

Functional Safety Specialist

Dec 2021 – Jul 2022 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Responsible as safety Specialist,
preparing safety management activities (I.e safety plan,safety case , DIA )
Safety analysis (Impact analysis, FMEA (System & Component,SOTIF ) as per Iso26262.
Supported creating safety concept (Technical, functional).
Supported Requirements analysis and updates( FSR,TSR)

JiraSafety planISO26262ADASFunctional SafetySafety Management

Kpit

Safety Engineer

Jan 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Japan

Responsibility as safety engineer
Preparation of Safety plan, Safety concept, providing safety mechanisms, safety review of newly developed functions for ADAS.
Analyzing effects of failures on product reliability.
Analyzing safety requirements from OEM for acceptability and
implementation. Developing safety requirements for other controllers and ensuring
traceability of the same.
Item Definition
HARA
Impact Analysis
FSC, TSC, SW safety requirements
Support in embedded development process
Confirmation reviews
Building safety culture in the organization
Guide team members
Following the Aspice process

JiraFault Tree AnalysisSafety planISO26262Safety AnalysisADAS+3

Robert bosch engineering and business solutions private limited

2 roles

Functional safety manager

Promoted

May 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · bangalore

As a Functional Safety Manager, I am responsible for executing the below mentioned tasks:
Implementation of ISO 26262 in Automotive Safety products such as ABS, ESP, iBooster & APB-Mi
Requirements Engineering - Analyzing safety requirements from OEM for acceptability and
implementation. Developing safety requirements for other controllers and ensuring
traceability of the same.
Safety Management – Preparation of Safety plan, Safety concept, providing safety mechanisms, safety review of newly developed functions, overall
enforcement of Bosch CC_AS safety strategies & representation of the same to the OEMs.
FS Validation Testing – Developing fault injection test cases for ESP & iBooster interfaces (sensors, engine,
throttle etc.) & analyzing actual traces outputted from vehicle track testing to check for unsafe vehicle
behaviour, validation of FTTI & implementation of appropriate degradation/ fail-safe strategies.
Continuous development & update of the FMEA & FTA with product development.
Effective utilization of FMEA & FTA to allow function developers & safety managers:
I. To understand the effects of changes on the safety concept
II. Prioritizing actions on failures bearing maximum risk
III. Analyzing effects of failures on product reliability
Conducting trainings on Functional Safety, FMEA, FTA, ISO 26262
standards to project team / stake holders.

Safety planISO26262Safety AnalysisADASFunctional SafetySafety Management

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2014 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · bangalore

As a software component responsible have been worked in following activities ,
1. Worked on complete Design and Functional Verification and Testing of automotive products ESP for component HAL and IPB.
2.Understand the requirement of the different phases of testing and Preparation of Test Protocols and procedures covering all the possible failure modes and execution the test.
3. Worked on Prototyping and Requirement Update and followed traceability as per the V model.
4.Integration of various Esp Products

Software DevelopmentSoftware Engineering