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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Shipped Always On Display for Fitbit Versa2, a top-5 user requested feature with Fitbit’s 25 million+ user base.
• Shipped auto-brightness tuning for Fitbit’s new OLED display Smartwatches.
• Shipped Versa2 retailer demo units reaching across EMEA, APAC and North America markets.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Research & Marketing teams to build the product.
• Define & track KPI's for success to track feature adoption, retention and engagement.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led an automation team of 9 Engineers across 3 remote locations and revamped engineering processes, implementing agile development methodologies, code reviews and continuous integration.
• Led project to design and build automation (Python) on 2 Fitbit platforms encompassing 7 products (including Alta, Alta HR).
• Achieved 50% reduction in manual testing costs saving the company a quarter million dollars YoY, by setting up pipelines to perform P0 and P1 tests.
• Eliminated 20% critical product bugs early in the product cycle by implementing a trimmed down Continuous Integration system to suit Firmware development needs.
• Created a saving of quarter million dollars by rapidly prototyping and developing a Minimum Viable Product to replicate Out of Box User Experience, thereby reducing the man power needs for every new product.
• Developed data analysis tools for tracking product performance in the field (crash rates, syncing, FWUP) using Snowflake.

Greater San Diego Area

• Senior Developer of the automation team that successfully built a test framework to support 5 Windows Phone Chipsets.
• Cut down test organization costs by 75% working with multiple functional teams (Power, Subsystem, Radio Layer, Multimedia and Graphics) to onboard tests into automation.
• Led automation team of 4 engineers to support 3 Windows Phone products through Microsoft Code drops and release cycles, to debug and unblock issues on daily builds, reducing automation bugs by 50% in parallel, using.
• Developed dashboards to track daily Software quality progress for Program Managers and Executives.
• Created smart features for automation to reduce device and human hours needed for debugging (cutting down device preparation phase, eliminating bad devices, auto-retrying failures).

Greater San Diego Area

• Developed the Windows Automation Test Framework using Python to support Phones and Tablets (MSM8660, MSM8960, and MSM8974).
• Built unit test coverage for the framework API’s using NOSE framework.
• Increased platform functional/stress test coverage by 75% in 2 years.
• Designed and setup RACK layouts to support automation (OTA network support, GPS support, heat ventilation, devices per host configuration).

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Developed Mathematica test scripts for testing the various Visualization and Graphics functionalities. Designed and implemented the test plan and scripts for CUDA and OpenCL functionalities in Mathematica.

Worked as a Media Lab Co-op Engineer to test the codecs and other integrated application components in Media Explorer and Gaming products of AMD.

Worked as a Product Development Co-op Engineer to understand the schematics of the processor test boards and write scripts in RUBY and PERL to develop applications for testing various processors.

Developed PERL scripts to perform gene sequence matching and annotations of Bovine (Cow) and Opossum genomes.

Chennai Area, India

Software Product Management Certification, Software Product Management

Ms, Electrical Engineering, 3.9/4

Masters in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Image Processing.

Be, Ece, 8.4/10