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