Richa Jain Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

+ Delivered critical tech products, focused on self-service experience for our contractor network, as well as our contractor relations teams.+ Led multiple migrations of active legacy applications to modern tech stack, while keeping it a seamless experience for end users and adding significant value to both end users and business, beyonda basic lift and shift.+ Aligned all cross functional teams (Engineering, Quality, Contractor Relations, Product, UX) and established comprehensive… Show more + Delivered critical tech products, focused on self-service experience for our contractor network, as well as our contractor relations teams.+ Led multiple migrations of active legacy applications to modern tech stack, while keeping it a seamless experience for end users and adding significant value to both end users and business, beyonda basic lift and shift.+ Aligned all cross functional teams (Engineering, Quality, Contractor Relations, Product, UX) and established comprehensive processes to design, develop and deliver complex products, in an agile manner, ensuring high quality and high value products.+ Juggled multiple roles building the India team from ground up during the pandemic. Show less

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+ Support women solo-preneurs across the world bootstrap lean, profitable, service based online businesses. Clientele is 60% America, 30% Australian, 10% European.+ Help clients identify opportunities & target markets, productize their services into programs and courses and create a service/product road map.+ Provide internet marketing strategies and content as well as launch support.+ Create & optimize client websites and funnels aiming at increased conversions and sales.

+ Built a business from ground up with a profit margin of 70%, with a team of just 2-4 freelancers, and a clientele that was 90% American and 10% Australian, while working from India.+ Helped technology businesses create better customer engagement by transforming their marketing content. Focused on converting obscure tech speak to easily understandable English via Blog Posts, Tutorials, User Manuals, Whitepapers, eBooks etc+ Delivered thousands of blog posts and other pieces of… Show more + Built a business from ground up with a profit margin of 70%, with a team of just 2-4 freelancers, and a clientele that was 90% American and 10% Australian, while working from India.+ Helped technology businesses create better customer engagement by transforming their marketing content. Focused on converting obscure tech speak to easily understandable English via Blog Posts, Tutorials, User Manuals, Whitepapers, eBooks etc+ Delivered thousands of blog posts and other pieces of marketing content to satisfied global clients including 400+ tutorials and articles for Udemy alone. Show less

+ Browsers: Android and Chrome browser. + OS: Android -I, J, K , Chrome OS.+ Role: People management. Project Management. Hiring. Appraisals. Mentoring. Code reviews. Development. Testing. Supporting cross functional teams.+ Built the Browser team in India from the ground up with a focus to enhance browser functionality, increase performance and reduce power consumption in the browser as well as web stack on Tegra hardware. Role included hiring senior engineers with prior… Show more + Browsers: Android and Chrome browser. + OS: Android -I, J, K , Chrome OS.+ Role: People management. Project Management. Hiring. Appraisals. Mentoring. Code reviews. Development. Testing. Supporting cross functional teams.+ Built the Browser team in India from the ground up with a focus to enhance browser functionality, increase performance and reduce power consumption in the browser as well as web stack on Tegra hardware. Role included hiring senior engineers with prior Browser experience, training the rest of the team - including myself - about the Browser; identifying Browser power/performance leaks and bottlenecks, and addressing them.+ Also supported global, cross functional teams resolving browser issues, bugs and integrations that they faced.+ Drove process improvements, documentation efforts including creation of an extensive regression testing for browser in order to prevent / catch any regressions arising from global contributions to a common code base.+ Key functional additions to the Android Browser included browser control via gamepad controllers for Shield devices, V8 Javascript Engine on 32-bit and 64-bit ARM processors Show less

+ Role: People management. Project Management. Appraisals. Mentoring. Code reviews. Development. Testing. Supporting cross functional teams.+ Led a swat team of 12 engineers across cross functional teams and multiple locations to clean up, modularize and then productize the crucial Parser and Streaming software stack across multiple codelines (Android-Gingerbread, Honeycomb, IceCreamSandwich) within 3 months, resulting in ~80% drop in bugs.+ Led the team for Android Tablets based on… Show more + Role: People management. Project Management. Appraisals. Mentoring. Code reviews. Development. Testing. Supporting cross functional teams.+ Led a swat team of 12 engineers across cross functional teams and multiple locations to clean up, modularize and then productize the crucial Parser and Streaming software stack across multiple codelines (Android-Gingerbread, Honeycomb, IceCreamSandwich) within 3 months, resulting in ~80% drop in bugs.+ Led the team for Android Tablets based on nVidia’s Tegra family of chips to port, develop, productize and support system level MultiMedia (platform and framework) software on Android-Honeycomb + Spearheaded pre-ICS preparation across teams enabling HC feature parity within 2 days of ICS code access; followed by productization within 3 months. + Supported Customer Engineering teams, and certain Tier0 Customers+ Worked closely with QA to define test plans, bug filing guidelines; and closely monitor bugs and prioritization. + Created automated Developer end test suites to prevent regressions across common codelines+ Put in place processes to smooth errit code submissions and reviews, nvbugs triaging and usage; + Closely monitored and facilitated release tracking, release delivery and code maintenance across multiple codelines with the ReleasePlanning and PIO teams Show less

PROJECT: Software Stack for SD/HD Zapper Set-Top Box & DTA Convertor (BCM755x)TEAM: 4-8 (India, US, UK, China) MY ROLES: Tech Lead, Project Management, Development, TestingHIGHLIGHTS: Developed the SW in parallel with the HW due to extremely tight timelines. Tested end-to-end Audio-Video Software in emulation before chip tape out; within 1 month of chip bring up, delivered the Reference SW stack to 3rd party, and by the 4th month we delivered 90% feature complete SW stack.+… Show more PROJECT: Software Stack for SD/HD Zapper Set-Top Box & DTA Convertor (BCM755x)TEAM: 4-8 (India, US, UK, China) MY ROLES: Tech Lead, Project Management, Development, TestingHIGHLIGHTS: Developed the SW in parallel with the HW due to extremely tight timelines. Tested end-to-end Audio-Video Software in emulation before chip tape out; within 1 month of chip bring up, delivered the Reference SW stack to 3rd party, and by the 4th month we delivered 90% feature complete SW stack.+ Pre-silicon : developed and extensively tested the ROM boot code; emulated of the Audio, Video and Transport SW modules; and created the first of its kind end-to-end system testing for the Audio+Video SW pre-silicon as SW emulation.+ Post-silicon I developed, integrated and supported modules for the Broadcom SW Stack, including Playback, PVR support, Power Management, SW message filter etc. Also handled aspects of project management.----------PROJECT: Audio Encoder/Transcoder SW for an HD media solution (BCM7043) TEAM: 3-6 (India, US, Israel)MY ROLES: Tech Lead, Project Management, Software Development, Testing HIGHLIGHTS: Took up project ownership for the Audio SW stack that was in critical condition and within 4 months delivered the complete feature set, driving 4 teams in 3 global locations.Initially my role was only to develop the Audio Encoder API (device drivers) for AC3, AAC, AAC-HE encode & transcode. I went ahead and successfully developed the app and integrated the API, the FW and App, to deliver the complete Audio Software stack.Also took up additional project management responsibilities - starting with requirement gathering, getting buy-ins from various stakeholders, planning, scheduling and execution of the project. I ensured clear communication with stakeholders and senior management through daily/weekly calls and updates. Show less

PROJECT: Integration and Support for Motorola's VIP2060 HD IPTV Settop Box (BCM7405+7043) TEAM: 3-6 (India, US, Sweden)MY ROLES: Development, System Integration, Customer Support HIGHLIGHTS: I was the first point of contact for queries and bug reports and consistently exceeded expectations by ensuring that 90% of requests were addressed within 24 hours, even with an extensive breadth of software responsibility – audio, video, transport, system issues. + Developed and… Show more PROJECT: Integration and Support for Motorola's VIP2060 HD IPTV Settop Box (BCM7405+7043) TEAM: 3-6 (India, US, Sweden)MY ROLES: Development, System Integration, Customer Support HIGHLIGHTS: I was the first point of contact for queries and bug reports and consistently exceeded expectations by ensuring that 90% of requests were addressed within 24 hours, even with an extensive breadth of software responsibility – audio, video, transport, system issues. + Developed and supported the customer Hardware Acceleration Layer; integrated with BCM7405 SW stack; and brought up customer boards and applications. I implemented processes for effective SW release management to handle ongoing changes in both Customer SW and the BCM7405 SW stack. I also supported customers through on-site debug and training sessions.----PROJECT: Audio Decoder SW for HD Settop Box DVR solution TEAM: 4-8 (India, US)MY ROLES: Development, Testing, Tech Lead, Project Management HIGHLIGHTS : As the PI Lead for the audio cores of a family of chips – BCM 740x, 7118, 7411, I was singularly responsible for deliverables, schedules and quality, coordinating across 5 global teams. I was the primary contact for all Audio support and bugs.+ Consistently delivered on-time in a dynamic environment with short deadlines. Built a track record of driving all issues to prompt and proper resolution. + Led efforts to facilitate engineering by establishing guidelines and processes for coding, version control and unit testing etc. I created a platform for effective release management across multiple chips; also created resources for training new team members and knowledge sharing within the team.+ Key member of the core architecture team and also developed features like capture & playback, multi-channel support, SPDIF pass through, support for multiple audio algorithms including AC3, AC3+, MPEG, AAC, AAC-HE, and WMA; with I/O over HDMI, SPDIF, I2S and DAC. Show less

The Cradle processor was a completely programmable power horse multi-processor, system-on-chip with 4 RISC and 8 DSPs that could build products as varied as a secure router, a network surveillance camera, a high end printer by downloading different SW images. A revolutionary idea for that time.My work included+ Porting eCos (Embedded Configurable Operating System) to the Cradle platform+ Designed and developed DHCP Client for Cradle’s Integrated Security Appliance.+ Designed… Show more The Cradle processor was a completely programmable power horse multi-processor, system-on-chip with 4 RISC and 8 DSPs that could build products as varied as a secure router, a network surveillance camera, a high end printer by downloading different SW images. A revolutionary idea for that time.My work included+ Porting eCos (Embedded Configurable Operating System) to the Cradle platform+ Designed and developed DHCP Client for Cradle’s Integrated Security Appliance.+ Designed and implemented a model of the DMA Engines, libraries to control the DMA engines, Global Timing Engines and Clock Timers for the Cradle Software Development kit. Show less

Role: DevelopmentProject: A network camera demo [Platform: TMS320DSC24, C, vxWorks]The TMS320DSC24 is a multimedia digital image processor specifically designed for consumer portable imaging and video products such as digital video camcorders, PDAs.+ Validated the DMDK2400 hardware and the vxWorks BSP for the chip.+ Integrated H.263, MPEG4 (encoder and decoder), MP3 decoders with the Network Camera demo and validated the drivers for Ethernet, UART, Flash and ATA.

[My MTech thesis, sponsored by Tata Infotech] Created a GPRS simulator [Platform: C ++ and OTcl on Linux, ns-Network Simulator]Thesis and presentation are at http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sri/students/#richa+ Implemented a GPRS simulator with special focus on the handling of the air interface and the Link Layer, Radio Link Layer and the Medium Access Control Layer for the Mobile Station - Base Station interaction. Designed network topology for the BTS, BSC, SGSN and GGSN… Show more [My MTech thesis, sponsored by Tata Infotech] Created a GPRS simulator [Platform: C ++ and OTcl on Linux, ns-Network Simulator]Thesis and presentation are at http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sri/students/#richa+ Implemented a GPRS simulator with special focus on the handling of the air interface and the Link Layer, Radio Link Layer and the Medium Access Control Layer for the Mobile Station - Base Station interaction. Designed network topology for the BTS, BSC, SGSN and GGSN. Contributed the GPRS stack to ns-Network Simulator [http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-contributed.html] open source.+ Analyzed the effect of load conditions on the average packet delay and the number of users supported by a GPRS system vs a GSM system. Show less

Mpwe, Enterprenuership

Btech + Mtech, Communications And Signal Processing, Dept Of Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: + ‘Best Office Bearer’ Award as General Secretary of Hostel-10, IITB [’99-‘00]. + Co-Founded ‘weCare’, to raise.

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Master Of Technology - Mtech , Btech

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