Somashekar Chandra Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

★ Atonarp is developing a unique platform with the potential to disrupt the medical diagnostics market bring real-time quantitative molecular analysis, imaging and inferencing to a wide range of applications in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and semiconductor sectors. ★ The software Engineering team that I manage specifies, designs, develops, deploys, automation and maintains of a unified software across 3 generations of devices.★ My responsibility includes:➤ Spearheaded the development of application software, middleware and firmware for optical spectrometer product (molecular diagnostic application).➤ Orchestrated the integration of firmware, data science algorithms, and application layers to deliver a seamless product launch.➤ Leading the end-to-end automation process for system operations➤ Piloting a software upgrade across select teams to evaluate system performance and user feedback.➤ Supervising the development of an invasive method for the quantification of BUN, enhancing accuracy in patient monitoring and treatment adjustments.➤ Sprint planning, budgeting, and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) forecasting for the team, ensuring alignment with project timelines and financial goals.➤ Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including optics, mechanical, , hardware, and chief product managers, to deliver integrated solutions that improved system efficiency and accelerated product development timelines.➤ DOE (Design of experiments) for large data acquisition to build model for estimation.➤ Providing technical guidance to multidisciplinary engineering teams, ensuring adherence to best practices.➤ Building teams: setting goals, performing performance reviews, hiring new team members.➤ Preparing reports & summaries for upper management and board members (investors)

Bangalore

Played a role of solution architect for in-vitro diagnostic product. Primary objective was technology demostration building an optical spectroscopy for molecular analysis in the human blood.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Design and development Firmware development with LPC1768/69 microcontroller, STM32F cortex M4F used to build a mass spectrometer (residual gas analyzer) used in semi conductor fab industry, Pharma, freezedryer. 2. Peripheral device driver integration with kernel 3.14.3. Driver development for Pfeiffer vacuum pump to maintain vacuum for ionization in gas molecules.4. SoC side (inforce 6560) framework design, development and testing.5. System level and component level calibration feature design and development.5. Targeted applications are freezedryer/lyophilization, Pharma, Semiconductor.

Bengaluru Area, India

1. Samsung 1st generation Wearable SoC bringup and sensorHUB stack development with end-to-end usecase realization.2. As a LEAD, responsible for building a team size of 5 and executing the SensorHUB SW development on Cortex M4F with embOS. 3. Responsible for developing Async communication protocol between SoC(Linux kernel) and SensorHUB (RTOS). 4. Manage overall SW, system Development, Programs and testing covering Kernel, Security, Middle ware (Video, Audio, Graphics), Connectivity, Power & thermal Management, UI and Android and Linux 5. As a 2nd role, responsible for Pre and Post silicon SW development and IP validation for Samsung Image processing IPs

Cupertino

Principal Engineer

Bengaluru Area, India

• optimized Ducati firmware load time from 10sec to 1sec on OMAP4470 GED feature phone.• Managed Samsung Galaxy Nexus IQ tuning issues during production ramp at customer site.• Technically managed integration of Samsung AWB algorithm into TI’s 3A framework in just 12days.• Integrated new 8MP Samsung sensor (including 720p@60fps feature) into GED ICS codebase for Samsung Design-IN• Resolved hard to reproduce AIV video streaming issue.• Successfully handled LG S3D video bringup camp.• Optimized memory on ICS MR1 to free-up userspace application memory, resulting in cost-savings.• Enabled secure video playback on OMAP4470 on blaze tab which is used by kindleFire series of devices.• Conducted Feasibility study on following feature for Google Nexus phone(omap4460): o MultiFrame Bayer noise filtering, o Support 8MP 30fps ZSL feature on OMAP4460 with ISP pipeo GPU based smooth zooming to compete with iPhoneo Support for VideoSnapShot including Noise Filter during video record.o Time control Image capture • Prototyped secure video playback for un-encrypted content by enhancing media-codec(JellyBean) testapp.

Bangalore

• Multimedia Development:a. Resolved complex camera/video integration problems requiring technical expertise and understanding of the entire systemb. Implemented remote core crash recovery mechanism using WatchDogTimer(WDT)c. Played significant role in reproducing camera CSI2 overflow bug on OMAP4430 blaze. d. Responsible for developing utility on android platform which was used to measures DDR(L3) traffic behavior. This utility was used to catch CSI2 overflow bug and in-turn has immensely helped OMAP4 hardware team to root cause H/W bug• Debug tool development for multimedia accelerator.a. Developed Instrumentation tool to measure key performance Index(KPI) for caera usecase such as shot2shot, shot2snapshot, shutter lag, camera load time, Framerate(FPS). This utility also measures latency of different algorithms activated during HQ image capture pipeline. Ex: senor2Raw, RAW2YUV, 3A, LDC, NSF, GLBC, JPEG Encode.b. Instrumented cortex M3 CPU load measurement tool which prints the load at end of usecase.c. Enabled STM(System Trace Module) on OMAP4430 device and successfully integrated with Ducati software. Also wrote technical reference manual(TRM) describing same.d. Responsible for developing user-space application/tool on Android platform which controls trace filtering for ducati stack.• Debugging Skills:o With JTAG, without JTAG, external tool(omapconf), Time sequence diagram tool(GTKwave), UIA for BIOS logging(Detailed logging), runtime trace control tool for LEVEL and GROUPS• Customer Camp:e. Participated in Motoroal, Samsung & LG customer production camp and was responsible for debugging production stop issue.• As System Engineer role, was instrumental in resolving issue spanned across camera, MMU fault issue, Hang/crash scenario. Etc,.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for adding features like multi-client, multithread & RPC support to integrate DOMX for video and imaging application. • Responsible for developing DSP firmware crash recovery mechanism using watchdog timer feature. Development phased includes requirement analysis, design prototype, testcase definition for watchdog Timer feature implementation and it’s power management functionality.• Responsible for customer support on Android Zoom2 platform related to IPC/Bridge.• Responsible for technical consultation on DSP Bridge across different OS platform.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for complete ownership of Acoustic component starting from Porting, Optimization, Integration, system testing, performance measurement(Memory and MIPS impact) and bug fixes. • Responsible for developing communication protocol on ARM7 MPU side to control Acouostic module execution on DSP side. Also developed ETM interface for acoustic component for real time monitoring of AQI parameters.• Responsible for Non-Regression test bench setup for testing Acoustic functionality.• Responsible for integrating Dual Mic solution to audio framework.• Redesign and customization of L1 trace on ARM(MCU) to support debug capabilities for acoustic components. This involved adding new L1 DSP trace message at MCU side and modifying the MCU-DSP shared memory area.

• Porting, Optimization and Integration of ISO MPEG I Layer II code with the existing MP3 available on TI’s OMAP1710 architecture. • Optimization of MP3 Audio Decoder on ARM7TDMI• Porting and Optimization of V.42bis data compression algorithm on TMS320C55x.• Works as DSP support Engg for motorola transcoder networkClients Details:Nokia, Cannon, Motorola CDMA Network division