Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Working on cutting edge technologies to improve Camera Image Quality for Mobile, Windows on Snapdragon, XR/AR/VR, Auto/ADAS.
• Windows on Snapdragon & Android Platform: Camera HAL, Driver and Tuning.
• Auto QNX full Camera Tuning responsibility with my team.
• Drive AI/ML SI Solutions with various SI partners to increase scope and adoption of Qualcomm AI/ML advancements for Industry 4.0.

Oct 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr

• Leading an agile team of 50+ engineers. Handling end-to-end Camera software development in India for upgrade and new device products.
• Domian: Camera HAL, Driver, Sensor Bringup, Power/Perf, Application and Tuning.

Jan 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Lead OnePlus Camera System Team of 50+ engineers located at Hyderabad, Shenzhen & Taipei
• Work in full coordination with Qualcomm Hyderabad, Qualcomm San-Diego and Qualcomm China.
• Projects Handled: OP8, OP8Pro, OP8T, OP9, OP9Pro, OP9R, OP9RT.
• Domian: Camera HAL, Driver, Sensor Bringup, Power/Perf, Application and Tuning.

Jul 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Joined the new RnD Center as First Employee with the responsibility to Lead Imaging work at Hyderabad RnD center & set up a new team from scratch for Camera HAL, Driver, Sensor Bringup, Power/Perf, Application and Tuning.
• In a span of 1 years, built a high-performing team of 25 Camera Engineers in Hyderabad and handled flagship and upgrade projects.
• Projects Handled: OP6, OP6T, OP7, OP7T & OP Nord.
• The team made responsible for Google Certification Camera test suites for all Oneplus Devices.

Aug 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sweden

• I worked as a senior engineer in android video drivers team in ARM MPG Group.
• The team is responsible for providing Video Decoding and Encoding support on Mali-Vxx(x) Video engine IP.
• Work includes enhancing android framework, OpenMAX, Kernel Drivers and interaction with firmware.
• Recent projects involve Secure Playback on Android device (ARM TZMP1, optee and Google Widevine)

Jul 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr · Greater Noida

• Team provided the Android-TV offering for the set-top box market. I handled Multimedia(Camera HAL/Audio OMX/Video OMX/Display Surfaceflinger) HALs, Linux driver and OpenMAX components and integration of various codecs like HEVC/H.264 on android.
• Also worked on HDMI-Hotplug Service and HDMI-CEC HAL features for STB which was an instant hit with FAEs and Marketing guys. Also handled HDMI input service with HDCP enabled in Android inputs framework.
• Developed Customer feature for BT-A2DP routing for Tunneled audio usecase which is not inherently supported by Android framework. Customer was very happy with simplicity of Code and performance achieved.

Apr 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Noida

• Set-Top Box Business(STM): Worked on Set-Top Box Video Codecs and Media Extractors integration from Legacy Set-Top box to Android. Fitting Legacy Kernel Codec drivers in OpenMAX architecture required for Android Framework. Also worked on FFMPEG(open source) and ASF(proprietary) Media extractors and integrated in Android MM Framework. Integrated various codecs like Theora, HEVC into Android framework well before Android provided native support for those codecs.
• Developed HDMI-Rx player inside Android MM Framework to provide Android Player interface.
• Worked on Android HWComposer to support tunneled Video playback using Android External Surface/Side Band mechanisms.
• Internal Transfer to STMicroelectronics from June2012
• Mobile Business(STE): Worked as Technical Interface to customer for camera and video domain. Worked on Camera HAL and Video HAL.
• Responsible for interfacing Samsung Mobiles for various on-going projects and interacting with teams world-wide to ensure mature delivery to customer.

May 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Noida

• Worked as Android Camera HAL Engineer and developed new features like ZSL, Image Capture during Video Record etc and debug/maintain Camera HAL. Interfacing with OpenMax Camera provided by DSP/ISP teams.

Sep 2007 – Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Noida

• Android Work: Worked on integration of STM OpenMAX Video Codecs in Android Framework for Mobile Platform inside Packet Video OpenCORE and Android Stagefright Player.
• Developed H/W Accelerated JPEG Decoder SKIA Plugin on top of ST OpenMAX JPEG Decoder as native android binderized service. Included development of Skia Memory Allocator on top of PMem driver(for physically contiguous memory allocation).
• Symbian Work: Development of MDF Plug-in on top of OpenMAX component as dev video APIs. Also worked on design and development of MDF Audio-video Synch Algorithm for 3-plane architecture playback.
• Symbian MDF Plugin for H263, MPEG4, H264 and VC-1 Decoders & MPEG4 and H264 Encoders for Symbian 9.3 and ST 8815 chip
• Internal Transfer to ST-Ericsson from January2009

Jan 2007 – May 2007 · 4 mos · Amritsar/Ludhiana Area

• NSSOAP Plugin for Eclipse (SDL Wizard)