Background Summary
An experienced Product Engineering Systems Architect/Consultant with diverse domain and technical skills, strong
customer and quality oriented style of leadership. Accomplishments include successfully managing offshore engineering
teams on projects in end-end product engineering, architect of several successful customer products notably in the
domain areas of Platforms, Datacom, and Medical. Vast experience of working with several datacom, medical,
embedded platform engineering start-ups in variety of areas including building the core system team from ground up,
feature definition, engineering design, product development, and interacting with marketing and customer support.
Presently, Lead architect in Product Engineering division, providing technical consultancy in product development such
as requirements, architecture, design and critical delivery interventions for Medical, Avionics, Peripherals, Industrial
Automation customers and offshore teams.
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation Technology from SJCE, University of Mysore, Oct 1991
Several management and technical programmes and courses at IIMB, IISC, Bangalore
Employment Experience
17 years of Hardware and Software design, development, product engineering management and project management
experience.
• Lead Systems Architect in the Product Engineering Division, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore Feb 1999 to present
• Project Lead, HCL Technologies Ltd., from Oct 1996 to Jan 1999.
• Senior System Analyst, Square D Software Ltd., from Sept 1995 to Oct 1996.
• Senior Software Engineer, Tektronix India Ltd, Bangalore from March 1993 to Aug 1995
• Field Applications Engineer, Tektronix India Ltd, Bangalore from Oct 1991 to March 1993
Project Details:
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• Technical consultancy, architecture and design support and intervention for DSP based video processing
architecture for Mobile DVR, Robotic control system, Multi-parameter patient monitoring system.
• Architected the Wireless sensor network based Cardiac Emergency Monitoring Solution for a Medical Technology
start-up comprising of home monitor and hospital based nurse monitor station and server side web application
platform. Played a key role in customer engineering team and independently contributed to the end-end technology
analysis and selection, feature definition, interface design, database design, medical device integration and
conceptualizing, prioritizing and driving the implementation and integration of all components in the ecosystem
using Agile development model. The software system design and the complex multi-tiered database design,
partitioning of core system modules for use in monitor and server side systems, zigbee network interface module,
interface definition for arrhythmia algorithms on Matlab environment and product verification and validation
approach were some of my independent contribution as architect of this product.
• Architected the Remote Patient Monitoring Solution including the home monitor based on LAMP components on
Intel platform and server side platform based on technologies. Played a key role in customer engineering team and
independently contributed to the technology selection, feature and use case detailing, feature prioritization,
interface design, database design, device integration and conceptualizing and driving the implementation and
integration of all components in the ecosystem including interfacing with legacy medical record and monitoring
systems. Acquired knowledge for Safety critical medical product design using proper design methodologies, Fault
and Risk management, and standards based interfaces and protocols, such as use of CCR standards for data
payload. Used innovative open technologies like Message oriented middleware, Enterprise Service Bus for data
integration and transformation on server side and open technologies like LAMP, XML User Interface (XUL)
technologies for the entire ecosystem. Was part of the customer pre-sales team to showcase the solution to OEM
and endusers.
• Architected the embedded Linux distribution for a leading customer; was instrumental in building the core system
team from ground up, feature definition, engineering design and development of the first generation targeting
telecommunications market. Also contributed to the design of the distribution framework, automated test framework
for end-end testing of kernel on multiple target boards spread across geographic locations.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltaf). Experience in interacting with open source community projects such as Carrier
Grade Linux (CGL) consortium, platform management (IPMI), Class Based Kernel Resource Management (CKRM)
for integrating/backport features providing customized solutions into a carrier grade telecommunications platform.
• Architected the Layer-2 Advanced switching and VLAN software solution on Linux and integrated with Broadcom
StrataXGS switch. The switch protocols developed were Spanning Tree, Rapid Spanning Tree, Multiple Spanning
Tree, IGMP Snooping, IEEE802.3ad , GARP, GVRP, GMRP, Management applications and delivered product
prototypes
• Developed IXP-1200 Network Processor based TCP Offload Engine. The Linux TCP stack was modified to offload
TCP sessions to the network processor to improve latency and throughput. This was done to gain hands-on
experience of Linux TCP stack and also Network processors. Developed a diagnostics and hardware test
framework for enterprise switch card comprising HiFn security processors, SiByte control plane processors, IBM
PowerNP dataplane processors
• Architected the switch card software and interface to control/data plane for Edge router platform of a networking
start-up. Designed and Developed Bellcore GR253 compliant firmware including SONET, Alarm monitoring and
surveillance, performance monitoring and Fault Management APS.
• Designed the Wipro FireWire gateway platform. Developed the 1394 Device driver for VxWorks and IP over 1394
protocol and Serial Bus protocol as per IETF specifications
Designed and Developed X.25 and ISDN protocol stacks for a multi-tiered Remote Access Services platform. The
stacks were designed to have data and control paths on different processors and operating environment and
communicating over shared memory. Also developed the interfaces and drivers required for inter-processor
communication, porting of the OS to the boards. Implemented the device drivers for Quad PCI based ISDN BRI card
based on AMCC 5933 PCI chipsets.
Lead Developer in the team, developed the Anti-Lock Braking system components on Hitachi H8 microcontroller
assembly for a Japanese customer. The modules like fail-safe, detection of vehicle parameters and control system was
developed and tested in a simulated environment
As Field Applications Engineer (Oct 1991 to Feb 1993), was involved in hardware maintenance and application
development support for Tektronix test and measurement products. Application development using LabVIEW and
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LabWindows for custom field environments like Virtual Instrumentation, VME systems, GPIB, ATE, Automatic Calibration
Systems, MIL-STD-1553 bus systems
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