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Wilmington, Ma, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

A hands-on technical leader inspired to build a strong engineering team and deliver first-class AI runtime software solutions across Flex-Logix’s X1 and Hawk AI platforms.• Recruited, built, and managed an engineering team of 6 developers to take full ownership of Flex Logix’s Inference runtime software; mentored and coached direct reports to achieve project targets.• Rearchitected the runtime platform software to improve overall scalability, efficiency, performance, and ease of deployment.• Involved in influencing Flex Logix’s next generation X2 AI SoC Architecture to ensure that the design will have sufficient memory and CPU resources to meet the desired use cases and performance metrics.• Identified areas of improvements in the software development workflows and worked closely with the SDET team to improve the workflow.• Defined project roles and responsibilities in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including project scope and objective to ensure a clear and cross-functional understanding amongst all stakeholders.• Created projects plans with trackable intermediate milestones and ensured that all dependencies and deliverables amongst the stakeholders’ needs and requirements are meet.• Translated marketing requirements into product requirements with clearly defined SW release schedule and definitions. • Performed project tracking through clear and concise reports and time management reports.• Proactively identify potential issues and work closely with each stakeholder to mitigate the risks.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Inspiring technical leader and manager with great communication skills and in-depth system level knowledge, responsible for delivering production quality software across many Broadcom reference designs.• Successfully led and architected numerous complex software projects that involve multiple functional groups and contractors from different geographical locations.• Co-lead the integration of Symantec Gateway Suite into Broadcom’s residential gateway SDK, and chaired weekly design and status meetings with internal and external stakeholders.• Led the design and implementation of the communication channel between the residential gateway SDK and Symantec Gateway Suite cloud server using MQTT and protobuf.• Led the feasibility studies of many scientific and proof-of-concept projects on various technologies such as DPDK and Docker, and turning them into real engineering projects and key product differentiators.• Profiled and analyzed the CPU, memory and data bus performance of various SoCs under different loads and using different stimulus and provided recommendations to the SoC teams for future improvements.• Participated in the design and integration of a leading-edge next generation hardware-assisted crypto engine and developed domain knowledge in many networking security protocols such as IPSec and TLS/DTLS.• Led the feasibility studies of many scientific and proof-of-concept projects on various technologies such as DPDK and Docker, and turning many of them into real engineering projects and key product differentiators.• Profiled and analyzed the CPU, memory and data bus performance of various SoCs under different loads and using different stimulus and provided recommendations to the SoC teams for future improvements.• Participated in all phases of SoC/firmware/software development cycles, from block simulation with test vectors, SoC and board bring-ups, driver implementation and software integration, all the way up to Web UI and cloud server development.

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Recruited, built and managed an engineering team to take full ownership of the Android component for various mobile platform projects.• Liaised and communicated between customers, contractors and internal teams and stakeholders with clearly defined requirements, milestones and deliverables. • Led and empowered the team to deliver on time many complex projects that involve many functional groups from different locations, with clearly defined and communicated incremental milestones.• Developed a highly efficient, adaptive and scalable process that significantly improved the transparency, quality and stability of the development branch.• Developed in-depth knowledge in many key system components such as power management, memory management, performance and stability.• Participated and designed various demos for many trade shows and customer engagements.• Coordinated and participated in many silicon and system bring-ups, and involved in various Android and Linux kernel upgrades.• Assisted customer support teams and directly engaged with key customers to solve their critical issues.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Motivated technical leader responsible for architecting and engineering various complex projects, and engaging with customers in technical contexts.• Successfully led multiple development projects that involved cross-functional teams from three geographical development centers: Bangalore, India, Shanghai, China, and Vancouver, Canada.• Engaged directly with customers around the world to define feature requirements, and translating them into internal projects and business opportunities.• Recruited, built, and managed engineering teams that span multiple sites and ensured that software development process and schedule were followed.• Involved in architecting the world’s first ever hardware assisted multi-threaded MIPS processor that was specifically designed for triple-play and carrier-graded residential gateways.• Led a software development team to design and develop an ADSL/VDSL residential gateway;• Re-architected Linux networking drivers and stacks to take full advantage of the hardware assisted multi-threaded architecture and improved throughput performance by over 100%.• Led a team to turn a single-threaded RAID stack into a SMP-safe stack running on a multi-core system and optimized its throughput by an order of magnitude.

Us

Software Engineer responsible for the whole product development cycle, from requirement specification to end-customer support.• Led the design and development of several device and line card drivers for both SmartEdge 800/400 Intelligent Transport and Router product lines;• Enhanced and debugged layer 2 and layer 3 protocols;• Developed embedded software in accordance to variousTelecommunication standards such as SONET/SDH, DS3/E3, DS1/E1, Fast-Ethernet, Gig-Ethernet, and ATM;• Involved in FPGA and board level design;• Developed diagnostic software for H/W debugging and manufacturing;• Provided customer support in isolating and resolving customer issues.

Ca

• Participated in the design, implementation, and realization of a multithreaded, distributed network management software applications using Java, C, C++ and CORBA;• Improved the architecture of Nortel’s network management applications.

Us

• Led the validation project of PMC’s SONET/SDH Payload Extractor/Aligner semiconductors;• Participated in all phases of development cycle including both board and software designs;• Developed test methodologies, functional test plans, software drivers and validation boards for thorough test and in-depth validation of PMC’s SONET and T1/E1 devices;• Designed FPGAs and circuit boards at the analog and digital level;• Enhanced testing methodologies with softwareautomation.

Mba, Strategic Management

Master Of Engineering, Telecommunications

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering