Uchinta K Boddapati Email & Phone Number

Santa Barbara, CA, US

Privilege of collaborating directly with Chief Innovation Officer on an incredible product.

San Jose, California, US

• Involved extensively in customizing Android framework for a portfolio of Video Conferencing devices/peripherals
• Designed and executed implementation of in-house alternate solution for 'Android Near by' for secure wireless communication between Android devices using Bluetooth BLE and network sockets.
• Extended Android SystemUI plugins architecture to support custom product features
• Used Device Policy Manager as a service to enforce policies/restrictions on devices shipped to customers
• Instrumental in discussions with partners/vendors from requirements to delivery of product(s)

• Implemented support for display cutout in edge to edge displays in Android 7.0, Essential PH-1 comes worlds first in that segment. Google rolled out this feature for multiple cutouts officially in Android 9.0.
• Developed a Home Launcher application called ‘Switcher’ which shows installed applications as widgets instead of icons. This opens a new doorway for application developers to show dynamic content of their apps on the.
• Developed SystemUI(Everything you see in Android that is not an application) from ground-up for GEM, a flagship sleek smartphone from Essential. This includes support for the navigation bar, status bar, quick settings.
• Implemented a simple soft input keyboard from end to end with support for different layouts, popup(accent) keyboard, speech to text integration and many more subtle features not existing in popular keyboards
• Added ‘Live Wallpaper’ feature using default wallpaper service to make the background more lively
• Provided a mechanism through Android settings to configure the visibility of content under the cutout, per application, for which the code changes span across Android framework, Policy Control, and Window Subsystem

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Modified Surface flinger to support dual-display rendering for AR ready smart glasses
• Sole engineer to upgrade Android from 4.2 to 5.0 on Atheer smart glasses, which involvedchanges across Android applications, framework, HAL, Init scripts, kernel drivers, dtb and more
• Successfully ported Android L to Nvidia Jetson TK1 even before Nvidia made an official release
• Implemented Camera HAL (including support for hotplug) to give access to USB enumerated
• Made changes in the kernel source-code/drivers/dtb etc as per product custom hardware. Changing I2C bus address, fixing battery charging issues, enabling usb-otg support, gain access to headset/headphone, compensating.
• Successfully achieved Android Secure-boot on Atheer smart glasses using Nvidia tools/documentation.

IN

• Played active role in giving demos to VCs for funding
• Lead teams of small sizes technically and managerially
• Instrumental in porting Android multimedia on client[Broadcom] hardware chipsets
• Resolved bottlenecks during design & development of product and applications

IN

• Involved in end to end development of a software which auto-generates Symbian source code from a simple script file which significantly improve developer productivity by eliminating manual boilerplate code. The.
• Utilized Lex and Yacc unix tools to do preprocessing of input scripts
• Identified and implemented mapping between input script ApI and Symbian ApI
• Added provision to the software to generate code for other platforms like Qt

• Developed Video Player application for BenQ P31
• Identified bottlenecks for implementing MSDRM and OMADRM for mobiles
• Optimized application performance by 1.5x by eliminating redundant code.
• Reduced the launch time of media application using multithreading for preparing album info

• Implemented from scratch Musicplayer and Videoplayer application in Symbian
• Handled external events like alarm, call, low memory, etc efficiently during playback using 'state machine'
• Optimized media playback performance by 1.5x using TI DSP processor for decoding codecs