Engineer Software

ASHA G. KARVAJE

*** *********** ******, *** *** Tel: 847-***-****

Mountain View CA 94040 Email: ****.*******@*****.***

SUMMARY

. 8+ years of experience in complete software development lifecycle:

Requirements, design, development, debugging, and testing of system

software.

. Coordinating with and leading cross-functional teams across multiple

international locations.

. Led trouble shooting crashes in Android framework.

. Extensive hands-on programming experience in real time,

multithreaded systems.

. Experienced in Sensor configuration, design, development, and

integration of multimedia components.

. In-depth knowledge of Image compression standards.

. Experienced in software development on ARM processors (Arm

7, ARM 9, Arm 11).

. Experienced in integrating third-party components (eg. nVIDIA, AMD GPUs)

.

. Experienced in Hardware debugging (Multi-Ice, Datalogger,

Lauterbach, OpenIce.)

. Experienced in Assembly level programming in Star*Core and

ColdFire processors.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

. Senior Engineer, Multimedia, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Santa Clara, CA

(February 2010 - present)

. Senior Software Engineer, Multimedia Division, Motorola Inc.,

Libertyville, IL (April 2006 - February 2010)

. Senior Software Engineer, Multimedia Division, Motorola India

Electronics Limited, Bangalore, India. (December 2004 - April 2006)

. Software Engineer Multimedia Division, Motorola India Electronics

Limited, Bangalore, India. (June 2001 - December 2004)

EDUCATION

B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka,

India. (June 2001), GPA 4.0

SKILLS

Programming/Scripting Languages: C, Matlab, Python, Perl

Embedded OS/RTOS: Vrtxmc, Nucleus, Linux, Android

Assembly Level Languages: DSP Star*Core SC140, ColdFire V2 Processor

Hardware Debugging Tools: Multi-Ice, Datalogger, Logic Analyzer, Lauter

Bach, OpenIce

Database Technologies: MySQL

Software Development tools: Rational Clearcase, Subversion, Git, Repo,

Perforce, ClearDDTS, Bugzilla, JIRA, DOORS

AWARDS & HONORS

. Motorola Excellence Award (Bravo Award) for exceptional contribution to

the development of secondary display camera feature on the Motorola RAZR

V3 (June 2004).

. Motorola Excellence Award for exceptional training of a team on

multimedia architecture and image/video capture (August 2005).

PROJECTS

Bring-up and integration of camera features on various Qualcomm chipsets

for Android/Linux platforms (Qualcomm, March 2010 - present)

. Understanding new camera hardware/software interface standards such as

MIPI CSI 2, debugging camera driver issues, analyzing/troubleshooting

and proposing solutions for various camera use cases such as picture

capture, ISP related use cases, etc. on all Qualcomm chipsets for

android/linux platforms.

. Providing training to internal team members as well as customers about

new standards/features/enhancements, and assisting customers in

integrating solutions on their platforms.

Android stability analysis (Motorola, March 2009 - Feb 2010)

. Analyzing/Troubleshooting and proposing solutions for native crashes

(tombstones) in Android across all use cases, all products.

. Automating the process of identifying unique crashes (both Java and

native crashes) using fingerprint mechanism.

. Developing tools to help analyze crashes and gather crash statistics.

Integrating multimedia components on phones using TI-Neptune and Qualcomm

chipsets (Motorola, August 2007 - March 2009)

. Led integration of multimedia components (camera features, image

applications, etc.).

. Worked with other component teams to identify and resolve all possible

feature interaction issues arising due to the new chipset limitations

and architecture.

. Developed components for interfacing with Qualcomm Brew, OpenMaxTM

compliant systems.

. Worked on performance profiling and optimization of still image codecs.

. Interfaced with and integrated third party component libraries,

providing adequate use cases for extensive testing and debugging

multimedia issues.

. Implemented carrier specific features (eg. visual interface for T-Mobile

My Faves).

Multimedia development on mobile phones (RAZR, RIZR, V3XX, etc.) (Motorola,

October 2002 - July 2007)

. Supported design, development, and testing of multimedia components

(still image capture, video capture, still image decoding, etc.) using

several third-party chipsets (nVIDIA and AMD GPUs).

. Interfaced with components such as Bluetooth and MMS to provide

multimedia services.

. Implemented advanced multimedia features (media capture and playback,

navigation, etc.) on Motorola's second-generation flagship phone (RAZR

V9).

. Designed still image display application to accommodate advanced display

features.

. Implemented secondary display camera features (a first on Motorola

phones) on RAZR.

. Gathered requirements for, designed, and developed Motorola's first

camera phone.

GSM Full-Rate Voice Encoder (Motorola, June 2001 - September 2002)

. Developed and tested bit-exact implementation of the GSM full-rate ETSI

standard on both simulator and Star*Core DSP chipset.

. Contributed to implementation of WMA decoder on the ColdFire V2

processor.

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