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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Pando Electric is leader in EV charging and Energy solutions. I lead the Engineering efforts working with multiple teams on hardware, firmware, cloud, web and mobile.

San Jose State University

Mentoring next generation of young Entrepreneurs from San Jose State University for their Startup journey

Princeton, Nj, Us

Working for WiLine Networks / TelAdapters at the forefront of Platform firmware, Embedded Security, Cellular and wireless revolution by deploying thousands of Secure 5G based FWA and RF based microwave & mmwave terminals at customer sites providing Direct Internet Access, Multi-WAN, Point-to-Point and various other configurations. Developing cutting edge SDN / SD-WAN technology to provide realtime usage, traffic prioritization, traffic classification and quality metrics for broadband services like DIA, Multi-WAN, Point-to-Point etc. Extensive work on Embedded device security.

Designed and developed communication and machine learning ( AI / ML ) firmware on Nvidia Jetson TX2 platform for Automotive ECUs.

Developed online Video Conferencing and live event streaming solution using webRTC and scaled it to support 1000s of sessions. lots of interesting development on both client (iOS/Android and Desktop) and backend (AWS) using technologies like WebRTC, MPEG, H.264, H.265, Terraform and much more.

Ridgefield Park, Nj, Us

- Engineering Leader for integrating Samsung SmartThings Consumer IoT technology into Samsung products like TVs, Refigerator, Microwave, Vacuum cleaner etc.- Designed and developed security subsystem on next gen Hub using ZigBee, ZWave and Bluetooth. Designed and developed secure boot, full disk encryption, encrypted boot using ARM trustzone and TEE.

Boston, Ma, Us

Worked on GE Transportation project (Industrial IoT) related to camera on a GE locomotive and GE Predix platform.

Berkeley, California, Us

Manager - Content Processing Workflow (CPW)• Develop the server side Media/Content Processing workflow• Develop and deploy end-to-end MPEG-DASH based streaming service.• Integrate Microsoft Playready and Intertrust Marlin DRM solution to DASH workflow• Support Smooth+Playready workflow• Own the Content Processing Workflow and process media to stream to devices like iPhone, iPad, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Android devices, Web, HD TVs• Worked on design and development of all stages like media input / Ingest and Harvest, video and audio Transcode, subtitle transcode (srt, ttml, dvb subtitle, dvb teletext) , convert to DASH or Smooth based format (Fragment, Multiplex and Convert) , Encrypt, DRM protect and Stream media - required for a typical processing of video.• Direct interaction with client about requirements for new features, issues with current features and launch coordination for new features / technologies.• Integrate the product with various CDNs like Akamai, Limelight and Amazon CloudFront.• Port the Content Processing Workflow to run in cloud / Amazon EC2.• Work with third party technology providers and integrate the technology to current product.• Icing on the cake - The work on project led to the sale of the whole group to one of the biggest broadcasters in France - TF1

Newark, Nj, Us

• Involved in standardization efforts for DECE / UltraViolet since its inception in 2010.• Involved in standardization for Marlin DRM for media and ebooks.• Leading the development of DECE and Marlin DRM compatible Media Player for Android device using Android NDK, JNI, stagefright and OpenMAX.• Developed DECE CFF (Common File Format) parser for the media player which is very similar to MP4 file parser.• Developed software for decryption of media using ARM based processors utilizing the hardware security engine as well as software based approach.• Experience using ARM TrustZone security feature for developing secure application.• Part of core group of team members working on internal startup working on developing Android based MMO Gaming Device.• Involved in bootstrap work for the project.• Helped port WebKit based browser on platform.• Involved in research related to feasibility study of running a virtual machine on the ARM platform to dual boot Android and Ubuntu• Ported Android on bare bones Tegra2 based hardware platform.• Involved in initial software design and development of custom LED based touch-enabled hardware keyboard with LED for the Gaming device using Cypress USB to I2C and USB to SPI controller.• Cross-compiled custom kernel configuration for Set-Top Box• Enabled Bluetooth support for EZ-Touch dual touchpad based remote control for 3d GUI interaction• Involved in developing 3D GUI using JAVA JOGL APIs on J2ME platform over Set-Top box embedded platform.• Wrote controller classes in JNI layer for the 3D GUI.

Us

• Integrating XMLRPC in the system• Integrating Media Playback subsystem• Integrating a speech recognition engine on a NOKIA maemo based internet tablet/smartphone• Design and development of software stack• Solve critical software porting issues mainly related to media and playback• Responsible of designing and developing DRM for the set-top box

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Design and development of Media Player.• Solve critical color bleeding problem• Solve A/V Sync issue in Media Player• Integrate the Player with other HeadEnd components like Stitcher which streams contents to the player.

• Prepare a project proposal for implementing interactive video capability on mobile phones.• Porting open source LASeR implementation on WinCE mobile phones.• Design and development of C++ based software on Linux desktop. The software used to download XMLTV format xml files from internet and convert it to NDS specific DTD using XERCES xml APIs and STL.• Design and development of DVB-H based middleware for DVB-H enabled mobile phones• Research on the alternative technologies for watching TV on HandHeld devices.• Design and develop EPG for XTV based boxes• Co-ordinate with the team to help solve day-to-day issues and fix bugs in present NDS EPG for XTV boxes.• Develop new modules for EPG.• Design and develop platform independent RTSP protocol on NDS-Core Middleware using C.• Test the VOD client on STB with multiple VOD Servers like Bitband VOD Server, VLC VOD server,• Write technical and architectural documentation for RTSP protocol developed on NDS-Core.• Architectural plan for developing MPEG-4 systems support for NDS-Core based boxes.• Porting open source MPEG4 systems implementation on NDS Core based boxes for initial prototype.• Understand DVD specification• Design and develop Java Swing UI on Linux Desktop.

In

• Understand MPEG-4 file format• Design and develop application to write MPEG-4 files on disk. • Get encoded video from encoder and store in on encoder HDD in MP4 file format.• Research on encrypting MPEG-4 video frames and storing on HDD inMP4 file format.• Understand QT GUI library• Design and develop the customized GUI using QT GUI framework on linux desktop.• Prepare product specification, Use-Cases and Acceptance Testing document for prospective client for DG2L Digital Cinema System.

• Understand HTTP protocol.• Understand µCOS• Develop HTTP protocol according to design document.• Preparing Acceptance test cases

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

• Understand WaveLink solution for WinCE based devices• Develop application using embedded Visual Basic reading design document.

B.E., Information Technology

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