Accomplished Principal Software Engineer transitioning into Technical Program Management, with over 8 years of extensive experience in leading complex, cross-functional projects in consumer electronics.
Experience
2020 — Now
• Spearheaded technical product management, developed roadmaps and strategies for the launch of home security products aligning with market needs and managing the product development lifecycle.
• Acted as the lead point of contact in the US for our hardware manufacturing OEM team based in China to drive managing overall product development
• Coordinated with global teams, including OEM partners, cloud teams, mobile app integration, QA, technical partner support, and sales engineering, fostering collaboration and ensuring project success across multiple geographies.
• Launched a consumer product ecosystem - prioritizing firmware, hardware, and cloud integration.
• Working on ecosystem of consumer electronics including tablets, video doorbells & cameras, sensors, cloud integration and mobile apps.
• Derived product delivery and qualification strategies and schedules based on system requirements, technical challenges, lead times and business needs by developing end-to-end program plans
• Managed and owned complex cross-functional programs execution spanning technical product management, user experience, software engineering, hardware, firmware, QA, and cloud integration, from an early stage of development through launch to customers.
• Designed the architecture and key features for home security products including gateways, tablets, sensors, doorbells, cameras and 3rd party consumer products.
• Mentor QA, Tech Support, Field Support team and foster collaboration to enhance processes, product quality and user experience.
• Engage with customers for technical partner support to track issues and implement feature enhancements, improving customer satisfaction and product usability.
• Performed FMEA to identify potential risks and their impact on system architecture led to architectural enhancement in system reliability and performance
• Designed & developed QA automation software to test all products in the ecosystem
2016 — 2020
Greater Los Angeles Area
• Experienced in complex engineering analysis to contribute to new generation product development solving problems with previous generation issues and improve production processes.
• Experienced in working with high pressure environments by supporting multiples teams such as Manufacturing, Quality Analysis, Partner support, Product management and Technical customer support
• Managed and built firmware released for customers.
• Experienced in developing products with wireless, audio & video, sensor and IoT applications
• Designing and developing code using C and Embedded C for Wifi, I2C, UART, BLE, DMA, PWM etcprotocols.
• Debugged embedded software and hardware using tools such as oscilloscope, serial debugger using FTDI, JTAG.
• Designed algorithms for various sensors - motion, temperature, light and humidity in C language to enhance performance and reduce noise in real time world(field).
• Developed audio driver in C for a product using ARM Cortex M4 processor.
• Performed wifi range test, throughput efficiency using network analyzer, iperf tool and speed test tool.
• Developing software for custom Over The Air(OTA) update for embedded products.
• Developed custom bootloader update software in C for the products in field for ARM Cortex M0+ processor.
• Researched and tested different types of components to implement the product by testing the performance.
2015 — 2016
Fullerton, California
• Developed a Wireless assistive technology (WAT).
• Tongue driven system using Atmega 328 for disabled people.
• Developed a mask which controls computer and wheel chair utilizing the tongue.
• Developed results/reports on bioelectrical signals.
• Tested and executed experiments on multichannel EOG device.
• The device enables the disabled to control devices such as wheelchair, surroundings utilizing eye movements and eye blinks.
• Developed a device that generates bio field (aura) of inanimate objects.
• Generated auras of inanimate objects such as fruits and vegetables to get an idea regarding its age.
2014 — 2014
2014 — 2014
India
Assisted in Research and Development in the field of Power electronics, Analog circuits and Embedded systems.
Projects :
Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) - (Programming and design): Designed Boost Converter where the switching was programmed using Arduino for Solar Power system.
18 pulse controlled drive (Programming): To reduce size of bulky analog circuit, Atmega32 micro-controller was used for the controlled drive which removes harmonics from high voltage operations which arises due to non-linearity of the equipments.
Single phase and three phase Inverters (Programming): 8015 was used to control the switching of gates for the inverters.
Education
California State University, Fullerton
Master’s Degree
Gujarat University