Praveen Rajendran Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Senior Engineer & Firmware Team ManagerUltiMaker, formerly MakerBot is a leading provider of desktop 3D printing solutions and was one of the pioneers in making the technology mainstream among consumers and makers. In 2019, MakerBot introduced the Method series of 3D printers for professional customers capable of printing high temperature manufacturing grade plastics like ABS with dimensional accuracy. In 2022, MakerBot and Ultimaker merged into one company, UltiMaker.Responsibilities:• Firmware development for 3D printers dealing with motion control, heating systems, material management, user interface etc. The firmware includes embedded software running on linux on an ARM processor and also other peripheral components running bare metal code on STM microcontrollers.• Interface subsystems with the product, develop the product to be robust and close to spec using C, C++ and Python for firmware development. Develop the UI using Qt library with QML, C++ and JavaScript.• Work with other teams including electrical, mechanical, design and software; identify and solve problems along the iterative product development process.• Managerial responsibilities to ensure consistent and quality output, delegating tasks, mentoring juniors, roadmap planning, coordinating tasks and firmware releases with other teams.

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Silo is a start-up building a smart safe with an industrial design, touchscreen and a host of sensors like biometric, motion and location. It is connected to the internet to provide tamper/intrusion alerts and access notifications. It is targeted towards consumers and the hospitality industry.Responsibilities• Assumed a leadership role on the technology front and made decisions in hardware, electrical and firmware engineering thus being able to broadly guide the product development process.• Develop the firmware for the product using C on Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards for the prototype. Worked with multiple components like sensors and interface them using various communication protocols like I2C, UART, SPI.• Interact with ODMs and component vendors, negotiate and have technical discussions of product specs for design and manufacturing on the electrical front.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Worked at the Department of Applied Physics & the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.• Graduate Assistant at the school responsible for teaching and grading undergraduate students.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Software engineer in the Ethernet virtual circuits team, developing firmware for the Cisco Carrier Packet Transport system (CPT).Responsibilities• Implement features for network traffic classification on cards CPT 600, 200, 50 using C on Linux environment.• Troubleshot bugs and optimized throughput working with the testing team using the IXIA platform of traffic generators and test software.• Worked in Layer 2/3, TCP/IP, Ethernet Virtual Circuits, QoS, VLANs, MPLS, Cisco IOS, BCM(Triumph, Sirius) chipsets.• Judged as the best project out of 20 others for developing a search and indexing engine on a database with wildcards support in search queries, at the end of onboarding training period.C, C++, Linux, IxNetwork, Cisco IOS

Kalpakkam, India

• Learnt about the control and instrumentation electronics used in a high availability and time-sensitive large scale production environment.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Studied about the telecommunication and networking equipment's used across telephone exchanges and switching centres in India.• Worked with small scale networks set up in lab environment.

Master’S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronics And Communications Engineering