# Rakesh Ranjan

> Architect of clever machines and cool ideas!

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rakeshranjan

I turn ideas into deployable, maintainable, and manufacturable systems; clever machines with vision, intelligence, and purpose.

With a foundation in electrical engineering and over 15+ years of experience in embedded systems, I’ve led the design and development of real-world products that merge multimedia, computer vision, and AI into elegant, scalable systems. From camera sensors to deep learning models — I bridge the gap between hardware precision and software intelligence.

What I bring to the table:
  - Architect cloud connected full-stack edge AI products — from sensors to inference
  - Multimedia domain expert, create performant software stacks on embedded Linux and Android
  - Lead/collaborate with cross-domain teams across hardware, software, and ML/DL
  - Solve systemic issues - power/thermal, electrical, timing - across HW/SW boundaries
  - Draft high level specs to low level design
  - Drive mass manufacturing, vendor engagement and quality control
  - Work with legal, finance, production teams

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Logitech
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Cameras for Video Collaboration

### Senior Android Framework Engineer @ Logitech
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Custom Image processing processing pipelines using CamX/Chi Nodes
PoC Vulkan/OpenGL based offscreen image processing
UVC stack development with vendor extensions
Performant multi-stream camara capture Pipeline with dynamic parameter updates
Camera sensor evaluation, platform technical evaluation

### Staff Software Engineer @ Nauto
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Camera solution - sensor selection, lens, image quality
Multi-Cam sync - From same device to geographically spread out

### Senior Firmware Engineer @ Nauto
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California
- QCom Camera HAL Subsystem and drivers. 
- Camera Sensor selection  for third(N3) generation of the product. 
- Managed Camera IQ Tuning vendors(MMS) across two product generations(N2/N3).
- Integration and acceptance testing of iq-tuning deliveries for SDA845.
- Proving NUDs(New, Unique, Difficult) in  Camera/Video  in Android NDK/Native layers.
- QCom-OMX-IL <--> App Integration in Android Native Layer.
- System Design and implementation of Sensor Fusion(GNSS,6DoF-IMU,Dual Cameras).
- Bare-Metal STM32 development for Sensor-Fusion(GNSS-PPS,IMU,Dual-Cam-FSync)
- Expose Sensor-Fusion cluster as SPI-Slave to QCom-SLPI  and to apps through AndroidSensorManager.

### Senior Technical Lead @ Aricent
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- MIPI DSI based TFT display panel bring up.
- Integrate Qualcomm Display/Camera middleware with product software.
- Integrate Qualcomm releases from ChipCode/CodeAurora with Product Software.
- Integrating new QCom HLOS/Non-HLOS releases and porting existing patches on to QCom new code. baseline.

### Seinor Technical Lead @ Aricent
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Gurgaon, India
- Camera Sensor drivers for IMX417, AR1335 for Qualcomm APQ8053 LE.
- Analogix USB-C to DP driver integration for Qualcomm APQ8053 LE.
- Dual Cam Firmware development for Ambarella Imaging SoC for 360 degree Camera.
- Firmware for hard realtime core ( PRU-ICSS ) in TI-AM355x
- RTOS based firmware for sensor network ( TIRTOS / SysBios )
- Dynamic Resource Provisioning Software.
- Interprocessor Async Communication stack development between Hard Real-time(PRU-ICSS) and ARM (Cortex-A8) cores on AM335x.
- C++ based App level feature development.

### Technical Leader @ STMicroelectronics
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Noida Area, India
- Camera sensor bringup, i2c, power and clock.
- Modelling Digital Zoom span based on Sensor and ISP subsystem specs.
- AF lens actuator, led flash, eeprom & pmic drivers for Sony IMX camera sensors.
- OpenMax-IL components integrating custom 3A libraries (C/C++ <> MatLAB interwork)
- V4l2 subdev driver for raw bayer camera sensor for STE NovaThor.

### Firmware Engineer @ Oasis Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Pune Area, India
- Board bring up, linux character device drivers for ADC / Flash Memory / RTC.
- Creating cross-toolchain, sdk using buildroot.
- V4l2 UVC based camera applications for Fleet Management Systems.
- NMEA parsers for GPS for Fleet Management.
- UI - HMI development in Qt.

### Embedded Application Engineer @ Ensoft Informatics Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Pune Area, India
- Multi-threaded applications in Qt c++ OpenGL for desktop Linux.
- Data Visualization using qtiplot and qwtplot3d.
- C/C++ <> Matlab Interwork bifurcating processing and visualization.
- Creating rpm, deb and self extracting packages for Linux.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

### ISC: 12th. in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and Computers
Mount Assisi School

### ICSE: 10th in English Language and Literature, Mathematics, Science and Computers
Mount Assisi School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rranjan-engg

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Last updated: 2026-04-12