Dinesh Ranganathan Email & Phone Number

I currently do OS & Platform bring up for Samsara's dash cam products.

• Worked on the Vehicle Gateway team, developing and supporting one of Samsara’smain products that reports vehicle data (GPS, engine diagnostics, etc) to the backend.
• Acted as the main software engineer on a new engine immobilizer product with a team of 10 people. Designed firmware tailored to customer specifications and beta tested prototypes with customer trial runs.
• Optimized build systems to automate repetitive tasks, increasing developer productivity.
• Collaborated with the Connected Equipment team to allow the gateway to support a dash cam and a privacy button simultaneously by optimizing pin usage, increasing compliance with GDPR.

• Created DSL for state machines to generate C++ code and diagrams automatically, using lex and yacc.
• Integrated Inverter Emulator into simulation network, removing one layer of simulation.
• Consolidated various transport layer applications.
• Wrote stack monitor for inverter emulator, significantly increasing ease of debugging.

San Carlos, California, United States

• Designed modular and extensible GUI for current/future power supplies using Qt and Pymodbus.
• Analysed temperature data of the plane to isolate rapid increases using Databricks and Pandas.
• Automated takeoff procedures in the Docker based simulations with Python scripts.
• Created Faster-than-real-time tests and testing framework for the Battery Management System in C++ and Python.

Urbana-Champaign Area

• Wrote functions to crop GeoTIFF data using Node.js and Python
• Set up hosting and authentication using Firebase
• Worked with weather map APIs and implemented interactive map layers with React
• Used Google Cloud Platform to manage GeoTIFF and polygon data for agricultural fields