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United States

Cupertino

Cupertino

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• In this role, I was responsible for organizing & driving development of SW features for iOS & OS X releases that included technologies from Core OS.
• I worked primarily with the teams responsible for kernel, power & thermal management, platform bring up & flash storage.

Cupertino

San Francisco Bay Area

• In this role, I was responsible for:
• Driving the entire software development activity for every new image processing chip (COACH) released by CSR’s mobile division.
• Matrix managing all the software teams spread across various CSR sites in USA, Israel, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea & China.
• Interfacing & synchronizing between different cross-functional groups within CSR (product management, VLSI, software development, QA, release management, operations, sales and field offices) to drive software.
• Performing program analysis, managing risk by influencing necessary course corrections and resolving conflicts.
• Establishing and driving internal processes (e.g. requirements management, continuous integration) for increasing efficiency of software delivery.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led an application engineering team to develop embedded software on Zoran's mobile image processing processor (COACHTM). Features included still & video image processing flows, memory management, boot speed.
• Worked closely with Zoran's key customers in Korea, Japan & the US to develop solutions for digital still cameras & video camcorders. This included project planning, technical feasibility studies, feature negotiation.
• Traveled to and worked in co-ordination with worldwide field application engineering groups & contractor teams located remotely to deliver projects in a timely manner.

Sunnyvale, CA

• Worked as a part of the application engineering team that deals with customers to develop digital camera solutions.
• Developed new features for digital camera embedded solutions
• Was responsible for debugging and solving customer issues including travel to Taipei & Hsinchu in Taiwan to work closing with customer teams.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on two very different projects here:-
• IPv6 stack on an embedded platform: This project executed for MindTree Research Labs was aimed at developing an IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) stack for a LCNA (Low Cost Network Appliance). I implemented the UDP.
• Performance Buildings: This project was aimed at developing an intelligent building automation and collaboration solution. Three modules were developed - Visitor Management (VM), Conference Room Reservation (CRR) and.
• Effectively contributed to the requirement specifications and developed use cases for all the modules using Rational Rose
• Developed the web tier for the CRR module using Struts framework, Javascript & JSP.
• Wrote build scripts for the application using ANT

Worked on a project that involved the development of efficient string and regular expression searching algorithms to scan input streams in a firewall for dynamic signatures. The algorithms were implemented in C on a Linux system.

Advanced Project Management

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science