Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
· Engineering leader with experience across software development, product validation, power & performance validation, and program management, spanning multiple domains and roles. · Proven track record managing large, cross‑geo engineering organizations (50+ engineers) to deliver cutting‑edge Display and Media Graphics features in Windows device drivers across multiple generations of Intel GPUs, with strong focus on quality and time‑to‑market. · Experience building teams from the ground up across geographies, including hiring top talent, integration, and coaching into high‑performance teams. · Broad knowledge across the full product lifecycle, including software development, validation, CI/CD, pre‑silicon through post‑silicon, product release, and OEM launch enablement. · Leadership experience establishing AI‑driven engineering practices, building organizational capability, and guiding adoption across multiple teams. · Strong communicator and collaborator, effective with cross‑functional, cross‑geo teams, customers, and executive stakeholders.
• Leading AI transformation across Engineering: Over the past 6 months, led a virtual, cross functional team across Development, Debug, and Validation to design and deploy AI driven engineering workflows—establishing scalable foundations that are already changing how teams build, test, and debug software. • Org wide impact, strategy, and governance: Partnering closely with senior leadership (VP level), helped define AI transformation levels, adoption signals, governance, including usage and cost metrics to guide effective application of AI across tools and engineering functions while driving ROI aligned adoption. • Hands on technical leadership and enablement: Drove AI adoption beyond the Display team into the broader Graphics org through hands on design and implementation, spearheading the initial adoption of AI technologies, and building engineering capability through training, mentorship, and internal knowledge sharing; strong working knowledge of AI models and frameworks.
• Led the Windows Driver and Firmware Development and Validation team across Bangalore/US delivering high quality Display features across 7 GPU generations. • Collaborated with OS Vendors (MSFT), Display ecosystem partners (TCON, panel and dock vendors) and Compliance partners for end-to-end readiness and smooth landing of new features. • Co-ordinated efforts across HW/SW/Arch teams, System validation teams, Program Managers, Customer Enabling teams, OEMs for successful launch of Client and Discrete products. • Promoted shift-left mantra for enabling and validating features early in Pre-Si phase for full feature readiness by Silicon Power-On and to detect HW and SW issues using Simulation and Emulation environments. • Drove initiatives related to Visual Quality and Power efficiency focused features leading to enhanced competitiveness of the product and increased product adoption.
• Led a team of ~40 validation engineers in validation of Display features – industry standard HDMI1.4/2.0/2.1, DP1.4/2.1, eDP1.4/1.5, VDSC features, Power Savings technologies, OS features including functional, power and performance, Compliance (VESA) and Certification (WHCK). • Spearheaded efforts on transitioning team from mostly manual validation to >90% automation. • Transitioned to Development manager role seamlessly in 2018 delivering cutting edge feature with emphasis on formal software design and development process to develop robust, scalable, and maintainable software. • Managed product deliverables covering Pre-Si, PowerOn and Post-Si across multiple, concurrent programs with focus on finding driver/HW/OS issues as early as possible. • Established and deployed processes for efficient project deliverables via JIRA across the organization. Improved pre-check-in validation with robust UTF and effective Continuous Integration tests.
• Peer+1 Validation Manager (direct and matrix reporting of ~30 engineers) for world-wide teams (US – Folsom, Santa Clara, Chandler, Oregon, China–Shanghai, Beijing, India-Bangalore) for Media technologies. • Ensured highest quality media driver stack delivery covering AVC, MPEG2, VC1, JPEG, VPx, HEVC codecs covering functional, performance, power, and quality aspects. Contributed to performance improvements by identifying performance bottlenecks, optimizing kernel and driver, and evaluating end-to-end performance. • Ramped up new teams across geos (Shanghai, Egham UK and US locations), imparted onsite and hands on training on validation concepts, tools and processes.
• Technical lead - product validation of AVC and MPEG2 Encode/Transcode feature on the first hardware implementation in Gen6 Graphics (Sandybridge), Codec validation lead across 4 Intel GPU generations. • Key contributor to building validation framework, test content for codec/transcode validation, validated the driver on Pre-Si (simulation and emulation) and Post-Si environment to ensure high quality driver stack. • Responsible for debug and timely resolution of issues collaborating with driver, kernel and architects. • Co-ordinated with Software and Solutions Group team to enable Intel MediaSDK libraries to productize Intel’s QuickSync Video technology. Partnered with ISVs such as Corel and Cyberlink and OS vendors to enable end user applications (Media show Espresso, Corel DDR, Skype, Lync, YouCam etc).