Work Experience
Mar 2015 to Aug 2015
Hardware Design Engineer (Freelancer)
Business or sector: Telecom, Hittakonsult, Malmo, Sweden.
Project : Wireless Sensor network coordinator using Zigbee protocol.
Developing white papers on Internet of Things (IoT) for their new products.
Aug 2007 – Feb 2015
Senior Research Engineer
Business or sector: Telecom, Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), Bangalore, India.
Projects Involved as Hardware designer:
1. Multi Terabit Router: AMC Carrier Node Board (Board designer)
2. Stackable Terabit Router (Board designer)
3. ATCA based MPLS Router and Media Gateway(MGW) (Board tester)
Responsibilities:
Guiding many new engineers in testing and designing
Involved in performing feasibility study for multiple electronic designs
Involved in hardware design and testing of multi-layer Ethernet switches 98CX8248, 98DX107, BCM5690, BCM5670 and 10Gb Ethernet PHY transceiver TLK10034 (TI), QT2225 (AMCC), 98X20251 & 1G Ethernet PHY transceivers 88E1322, 88E1112, 88E1512, 88E1111, BCM5464S and HYPHY10G-PMC5426 (PHY device for packet transport over OTN/SDH) and microprocessor MV78460, MV78200 and MPC8560 and DDR3, DDR2, CPLD & EPLD and flash memories and Lattice power manager and ACS8530 synchronous equipment timing source, power circuits with dc/dc converters.
Involved in preparing hardware functional specifications, Identified the suitable chip-set & vendors to the project
Involved in preparing circuit schematics, BOM and component indenting.
Involved in negotiating the component pricing and support for the project with various vendors
Involved in power dissipation, real estate calculations and making probable PCB template.
Involved in preparing inputs for PCB template creation, mechanical case design, thermal analysis and heat sink design and verification.
Involved in SPI, SGMII and XAUI etc interface simulations for SI using hyperlynx tool.
Involved in making routing constraint set.
Involved in preparation of guidelines for CAD placement and routing, experience in reviewing of cad placement and routing, experience in designing test plan and test cases for hardware device testing.
Involved in boundary scan testing using XJTAG.
Involved in unit testing, EPLD programming, testing of interfaces like UART, SPI, DDR3/DDR2, PCIe, GMII, RGMII, SGMII, XAUI, RXAUI etc. and board bringup and system Integration testing.
Involved in testing of SFP and SFP+ transceiver modules of different wavelength and tunable SFP+.
Involved in preparation of technical documents, assembly instruction documents and system level documents.
Involved in system EMI/EMC certification and environmental certification.
Education & Training
2005-2007
Masters in Communications Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (INDIA)
Digital Signal processing, Image Processing, Digital communication and Detection and Estimation.
2000-2004
Bachelors in Electronics & Communications Engineering
SK UNIVERSITY, ANDHRA PRADESH (INDIA)
Electronics devices & circuits, Electromagnetic theory, Communication engineering, Antennas & waves propagation, Digital electronics and Data communications & networks.
Personal Skills
Mother tongue Telugu (Indian)
Hindi, Bengali (Moderate)
Other languages – Listening/ Reading/Spoken interaction/Spoken production/Writing
English C2 C2 C2 C2 C2
Svenska B2 B2 B2 B2 B2
Levels: A1/2: Basic user – B1/2: Independent user – C1/2 Proficient user (Common European Framework of Reference for Language)
Communication skills –
▪ good communication skills gained through my interactions inside organisation and with clients.
▪ good communication skills gained through my experience as leading fresh engineers in design and testing.
Organisational / managerial skills –
▪ leadership (responsible for guiding new engineers), good team player and individual performer.
Job-related skills –
▪ good command on hardware design and testing, VHDL, MATLAB, HYPERLYNX, ADS & Galtis.
Technical equipment /Computer skills –
▪ good command on lauterbach trace32, spirent test centre, optical spectral analyser & logic analyser
▪ good command of Microsoft Office™ tools, Wireshark packet capture, Arduino Uno platform
Other interests –
▪ Cricket, Volleyball and Badminton
Additional Information
Course:
▪ Essential Principles of Signal Integrity-Eric Bogatin (2days-2013)
▪ Advanced Gigabit channel design-Eric Bogatin (2days-2013)
▪ “Introduction to the Internet of Things and Embedded Systems by University of California, Irvine on Coursera. Certificate earned on November 16, 2015”.
Presentations:
▪ ATCA carrier card and AMC
▪ Crosstalk and Reflections
References
Available on request
