Ranga Varadan

R&D SW Development for Hearing Aids Fitting Software.

Software Project Leader (Release Management (RM) abd Continuous Integration(CI)) BMW ADAS xPAD: RM > Direct Interactions with BMW Line Management for SW Releases and Bugs tracking. > Leading and Resolving SW Problems in Released SW and Managing Release cycles. > Managing SW Integrators and Developers. BMW ADAS xPAD: CI > Continuous Integration of SW in to Jenkins. > Fully Automated testing of Integrated SW.

Program Management of Automotive ECU development, Software RDCT of ADAS ECU, Parking Control Unit, Power Steering Control Unit, Battery Management Unit, Charge Control Unit. Direct Billing Onsite and Offshore Model or Programs for Automotive OEMs and Tier 1s

Automotive Steering: RBEI’s Automotive Steering Departments cater to various OEMs for Electric Power, Para Axial and Column Steering; I am the Senior Software Architect for Jaguar, JLR, EPS Projects. Responsible for the Design and Architecture of: Highly Autonomous Driving (SAE L3, L4) Cyber Security. Lane Keeping Assistance. Automatic Parking Control. Traffic Jam Assistance. Pull Drift Compensation. Lane Departure Warning. LimpHome Feature.

Lighting Control Products: Honeywell’s Building control systems contain several products including Lighting Controls for Commercial and Household Solutions. Worked on Stop Ship issues in Neuenrade, Germany. Six Sigma Green Belt Certified for Defect fix time reduction in PEHA Lighting Control projects. Microcontroller Freeze & continuous reboot due to Brown out. Current, Voltage & Power Gain calibration failures. Gained good Understanding of EnOcean Energy Harvesting, RF Technology and Protocol.

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller for Dell 11G Servers: Remote Access Controller running the IPMI 2.0 stack, TCP/IP stack, USB 2.0 Host stack, and vMedia, vKvM. Managed two 1.0 Projects with CLI and GUI teams. Contributed to Design and development of REST URIs & REST Migration of iDRAC GUI. Agile process implementation and execution. Assisted Global team with Yocto-GIT Migration. Dynamic Code analysis with YAMD & Static Code analysis with Fortify360.

As a Product Engineer, I was responsible for Developing System Requirements, Firmware for the Control Panel Developing Visual C++ based GUI program (MJXplorer). Continuous Improvement Projects (CIP), involving researching and improving the hardware. 1. Converted serial port to USB 1.1 device, using LINX module. 2. Implemented Low Level Driver for boot loading AM29F400BB Flash memory interfaced with the MC68HC16. 3. Implemented the voltage regulator Maintenance Approximation Algorithm..

As the Hardware Engineer I was responsible for, Developing the Host Controller Philips LPC2888’s (ARM7TDMI) Hardware & Firmware. 1. Controlling the Clock Generation Unit, Interrupt Service Handlers, UART, USB, DMA controller, Flash Controller for boot loading using Philips MassDFU. 2. I2C interface for controlling Video ADC, I2S and SAI-SAO interfaces for A2D of Audio. Worked with GUI Engineers to develop Visual Basic based video player.

Supported Installing, Troubleshooting & Maintenance of MS Office and MS Outlook.

Graduate Research Assistant Designed a Harvard architecture based 32 bit Microprocessor. Developed 25 instructions and 9 modes with 5 stage pipeline. Developed Instruction streams for pipelining & hazard free instruction execution. Designed a 512 KB L1 Cache controller.