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Chennai, Tn, In

Chennai

Leading the activities in the company to explore and accrue deeper technical knowledge in wireless and networkingSteering WiFi division of Zilogic towards Carrier and Home gateway solutions.* Services and contributions on RDKB * Services on openwrt* Services on prpl* Mesh Controllers Integrations* wifi simulations using Qemu for Unit Testing* Wifi Test Automation DevelopmentManage the team's skills on* Development of embedded application* Development of BSP and middleware* Test Automation for the devices* Devops of the software build and deployment the embedded target

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Heading the consulting and services division of Zilogic, to support our clients in * Deeply embedded systems like IOT Nodes* Embedded Linux and Android systems like IOT Gateways and infotainment. * Wired and wireless networks devicesi do technical directions by taking initiatives in understanding, prototyping the current trends in the technology and accrue Zilogic's expertise and calibre in those areas to meet the immediate needs of client. I build talent pool within organization to service client's technical & resource needs, and deliver corporate training to ramp client's teams to get over the newer technical hurdles.Concentrating and improving Zilogic's business and execution model as below* Consulting Business Models - Startup Assistance, Project Assistance, Rescue Support, Residential Support for Platforms* Consultation Execution Models - Architecture and Design Inputs / Reviews, Code Review & Upstreaming, Skill Enhancement Training, Development, Build & Testing. Technically Driving the team, on* Improving internal platform's BSP support, code named Pegasus - Built and tested Debian, buildroot, yocto and openwrt based rootfs on target board. - added support and tested sensor libraries like mraa, upm and libsoc - added support for iot protocol libraries like, libcoap, wakaama, paho and curl. - building a case study for in-house enviro monitoring and FOTA - Analysing and building the Android BSP for the custom target board.* Developing generic wired/wifi test framework code named zAERO - designed basic test harness using Robot Framework - built functional tests suites for wifi channel and bitrate changes* Building a Linux and Android, BSP and system validation framework called pitstop. - testing against Pegasus releases* Building Agile Automation Solution for Embedded System named grandprix - Prototyping and Designing CI / CD / ARA Components

The key responsibilities out of this role is to strategize a new technological direction to innovate and exempt. Which would foster Zilogic ahead, as a `Top Embedded Consulting Firm` in the technical front and build a specialized embedded consultants pool, to take up new and greater challenges of our clients.It involves * analyzing newer technologies* getting known to open source projects in those technologies* getting along and contributing to those projects.* build a knowledge base talent pools to consult on those areas.

Chennai Area, India

* Taking up responsibilities of the design and architecting the products which were developed by Zilogic * and consulting to clients on their product architecture and reviewing the project process and trying improve it with open source tools and culture.* Had worked on converting all projects to be on Process Driven Development* Quality Improvements to the project by adding in Test Driven Development Strategies* Supporting and reviewing the methodologies for Continuos development, build and integration.Architecting Skills * Train and build a dev team for the project execution. * Design a process and methodology, tailored to the project needs. * Analyzing the project objectives and requirements. * Feasibility study and design proposals. * Consulting and giving inputs on design and architecture. * Analyzing the practicality of the project. * Producing detailed workings and specifications. * Analyzing and choosing the required open source software components. * Identifying the components for in-house development and out sourcing. * Analyzing software licensing of open source components. * Building a engineering friendly and team driven project methods tailored to team's capabilities.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Architectected and designed ARM boot flow till Linux* broughtup ARM trusted firmware, optee, uboot, kernel and rootfs for new SoC.

Enterprise and Retail Gatewaysworked on Ubuntu porting for qcom ipq SoC, developing monitormode support in ath11k drivers, QoS engine for service prioritization.Carrier Home GatewaysDesigned and delivered opensync on RDKB, openwrt and BCM SDK for Technicolor's multiple home gateways and extender platforms.* Opensync target API development* cosa API changes, utopia script changes* WIFi hal api developments* design and development of LED and Upgrade for opensync * FUT and FRV scripts generalization for newer platforms* worked closely with Plume on all designs* Got mutiple products certified.* Mesh Customer expereience trsting* 21 extenders testing for warehouse deployments* Zigbee co existence testing for sensor networks* Cloud control agent integration for firmware upgrade, network monitoring, stats collection

Chennai

Through Zilogic Systems, Consulted to Visteon in Linux architecture for In-vehicle infotainment systems.* Supported in design and review of the BSP architecture for the Linux based infotainment solution. * Worked on Yocto customization and analysis, * Analysing Genivi alliance conformance* Systemd configuration and customiztion, * Fast Boot Analysis and improvements.* NAND Boot Optimization. * WIFI analysis and design prototyping.* Continuous build and integration setup. Supported on the analysis. * Software Upgrade Strategies* Base port of Android for the infotainment target board * Demonstrating Parallel run of Linux and Android over Hypervisor.* Analysing web app architecture of Tizen and boot2gecko* Test automation prototype using Robot Framework.

Chennai

Consulting Qualcomm through Zilogic systems.Worked on the * Base platform port of Linux kernel for new SOC. * Base porting U-boot for the Krait based Network SOC. * Adding the new target architecture build in OpenWRT.* Supporting the platform devices port for the high speed peripherals.* Review and analysis of bus, clock and power management drivers of the processor.* Co-ordinating the teams towards collaborated workflow with wikis and ticketing system. * Supported bringing up of Linux using Jtag on the Emulation platform* BSP Testing framework of peripheral drivers in Linux .

Worked as a Technical Consultant from Zilogic systems* Worked in UBL, U-boot Porting, Linux Kernel Porting and bringup* Media streaming, Graphics & UI frameworks.* USB gadget ethernet based camera design* Network SOC performance Testing streaming and storage for various OS configuration.

Chennai Area, India

* Worked in design and development of Linux applications for GPS, media, CAS.* Character and network device drivers.* Porting, bringup and debugging of u-boot and Linux kernel on ARM and PowerPC architectures.* worked on settopbox, IPTV, DVD & HDD playback, GSM base station architecture and now switches.* Supported mobile platform, ippbx and codec development.

Was working as application engineer in Network Administration team

Be, Computer Science

Served as secretary of computer science department for period 2001-2002

Higher Secondary, Computer Science

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