Abhishek Madhyastha

Power Systems Specialist at Ametek - Power Instruments

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

• Power systems specialist with extensive experience in the design of products for the electric power grid. • Specialization in high accuracy power system measurement techniques, monitoring & analysis systems, fault detection techniques, revenue metering, power quality, phasor measurement units, digital substations, signal processing & grid communication protocols. • Vast skill set covering full system architecture development, analytical modelling, DSP, FW/HW/FPGA/SW design, EMI/EMC, DFT/DFM, compliance/certification testing, etc. • Extensive knowledge of IEEE & IEC standards governing the requirements for products designed for the power industry & active participant in working groups, committees, etc. • Author of several technical papers and speaker at various power grid conferences across the globe.

Experience

  • AMETEK POWER INSTRUMENTS (10 yrs 8 mos)
    • Power Systems Specialist
      Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

      1. Product Architecture - Leading the efforts from definition, design/development & testing to aiding manufacturing & customer support. 2. Power Systems Expertise - Domain expert in the electrical power systems industry covering several areas such as modelling, measurement, analysis, monitoring & communications. 3. Product Design - Experience in the design of products & functions targeted for power grid applications such as revenue & PQ metering, PQ measurement/monitoring, PMUs, fault recording (DFRs), sequence of event (SOE) recording, annunciators, communication protocols (IEC61850, C37.118, DNP3, DLMS, etc.), digital substation upgrades, etc. 4. Author - Presenter at several conferences worldwide.

    • Engineer
      May 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Engineering Intern
      Nov 2015 - May 2016 · 7 mos

  • Embedded Systems Design Intern at Vestechno Solutions
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2014 · 2 mos

    Design of an automatic wireless home surveillance system. 1. Formulation of block level specifications, I/O standards & general specifications. 2. Selection of development board & development environment. 3. Selection of cameras, memory cards & other peripherals. 4. Formulation of camera to board & board to storage communication standards. 5. Design of software for file synchronization between board & memory on Eclipse IDE. 6. Implementation of hardware & software interface. 7. Board level debugging and verification of operation.