Deepak Dasaratha Rao

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Summary

Hands on ands-on IT end-to-end products R&D, architecture, management and technology innovation experienced about 23 years.

Focus areas are Smartphone, Embedded System, Automotive, Connected Car, IoT, Connected Healthcare / Bio-medical, intelligent systems, wearable, and Web.

Experienced on full stack on hardware from system software, middleware to application layer in device platforms; client-server architecture.

Roles handled Senior Engineer, Project Lead, Project / Program Manager, Group Head and CTO.

Key responsibilities are designer, chief architect, project / program management, mentor, delivery head, practice head and technology head.

Managed team from 5 to 220 R&D Engineers, multiple teams / projects and cross-functional collaboration.

Several first-of-its kind products initiated, spearheaded R&D and reached quality products to the market.

Leadership in technology management, technical strategy, product roadmaps, new technology area initiatives and project conceptualization to development.

Three patents and one IEEE technical paper

Professional Experience

NRP System South Korea December 2015 - Present

Chief Technology Officer

Product Head for R&D and driving innovation, technology management of Telematics, Automotive IT, Connected Car, IoT and Intelligent Healthcare devices.

Directed team (12 Engineers) that pioneered handheld device “Rime Kit” product (Instant Voice Communication Push-to-Talk wireless protocol),

“RimeTalk” Android based HMI for S Korea, Australia logistics, security, hospital market

Solution Architect and spearheaded R&D of Fleet Management System (FMS) product, an automotive ECU system in fleets for remote vehicle monitoring, navigation from web server.

Roadmap, innovation, directing product named “RimeCar” R&D, a Smart Car Platform for passenger cars safety. Software platform R&D of Camera Vision based Advanced Driver Assistance System, Sensors framework, OBD II Communication, Linux / Android OS, Freescale iMX.6 / TI TDA2x SoC platform, Connected Car services middleware and apps. Development of In- Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) HMI and Mobile phone connectivity using Linux Server based SaaS framework (REST) for Connected Car services and 3D simulation of vehicle accident detection. Server for services management, WebSocket

Technology strategy and proposal for Smart City project in Navi Mumbai

(India) and S Korea. Open innovation engagement with Korea research institute.

Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore November 2001 - April 2015 Senior Chief Engineer

Program Management of Android System software R&D by four teams (130) and directed team for product development of system software (Linux Kernel 3.x, device drivers, Board Support Packages (BSP) for Qualcomm / Marvell / Spreadtrum SoCs) for Android smart phones product commercialization. Several 4G Android smart phones (model J1, J4, J6, Core Prime, Grand Prime) launched based on developed system software platform.

Spearheaded technology roadmaps, technology sensing, identified technology trends, evangelist emerging technology ecosystem for senior management insights, decision-making, strategic directions in advanced research areas of Electric Vehicle Battery, Bioinformatics, Biomedical and Healthcare devices.

New project proposals, technology initiatives, conceptualization, nurtured new technology portfolio by initiating and developing Mobile Healthcare Sensors Data Stream Management IoT gateway, MQTT, COAP, Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS), Healthcare Data analytics, Personal Health Record

(PHR) Server, Smartphone based Healthcare ECG / EEG / BP / Stethoscope / Blood Glucose smart gateway device and Health Wearables, Continua Personal Health device IEEE 11073 profile.

Championed and evangelized Connected Healthcare R&D area for Samsung and built cohesive research team (45 researchers), developed Samsung’s first personal healthcare portable device products for cardiac abnormality detection using ECG, EEG, monitoring blood glucose, heart rate, blood oxygen based on Embedded Linux, Biomedical sensors and signal processing algorithms.

Instrumental in Automotive embedded solutions and architect Samsung’s first Electric Vehicle Intelligent Battery Management Systems (IBMS) platform based on Embedded system software platform. Developed smart intelligence for state of charge / state of health monitoring algorithms, battery sensor systems and connected EV analytics (SaaS Open REST APIs, Remote battery monitoring, battery diagnostics, charging locations, remote software updates).

Initiated Samsung’s own Smartphone OS platform, built team of 60, spearheaded technical architecture, managed, delivered (for commercialization) first version of Samsung ‘bada’ (Tizen) smart phone platform based on Linux OS.

Instrumental in seeding research on first-of-its kind Pervasive Computing for ubiquitous seamless mobility and filed several patents. Architect smartphone middleware framework of Context Aware, sensors, database engine, WebDAV, Peer-to-Peer devices networking, Adhoc networking, social networking framework, Augmented Reality / VR, Java framework based on JSRs, Mobile Apps. Server based Open Service Platform (OSP) for mobility web services, Web Ontology, SaaS, Open REST APIs.

Head product R&D of Samsung smartphone Platform (SHP) and developed mobile system layer, middleware, application framework such as J2ME Java Virtual Machine, Web Engines (JavaScript, XML, HTML, DOM, SAX, CSS, SMIL), Internet Messaging Protocol & Services, Graphics Engine (SGL, OpenCV, OpenGL), DRM, SSL / TLS, PKI, x.509, Public Key Infrastructure / PKCS Internet Security. Developed Apps such as Mobile Browser, instant messaging and platform commercialized for smartphone models.

Created strategic business solution and directed team for product R&D of Home networking gateway platform and middleware based on OSGi, UPnP, Web.

Standardization of mobile related standards in Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) forum (ECMA Script Mobile Profile, CSS Mobile Profile, MMS) facilitated technology leadership in international forums.

Part of Audit for organization’s first time ISO 9001-2000 Quality KPMG Certification and CMM 4 / 5 and instilled best quality practices, guidelines and processes in multiple project groups.

Jattayu Software Bangalore November 2000 - October 2001 Senior Software Engineer

Spearheaded building mobile solutions teams in the startup for development of smartphone solutions such as Internet Browser (Wireless Access Protocol based), Instant Messaging Engine, Smartphone Apps (SMS, MMS, Email).

Instrumental in initiation development of server based wireless (WAP) gateway protocol stack, Cryptography / PKI based Internet Security stack and protocol and diversified development to OTA, SMS/MMS/SMPP gateway for wireless operators.

Head, chief architect and driven team for development of mobile phone based world’s first Internet Browser (WAP based) for WinCE, Palm OS PDA devices.

Mentored and strengthened teams’ competency and contributed to growth of startup (acquired by Mahindra Comviva) R&D for its first wireless mobile

(Device-Server) commercial solutions.

Integra Micro Systems Bangalore December 1998 – October 2000 Senior Software Engineer

Spearheaded R&D of products of Voice engine for Interactive Voice Recording

(IVR) system, VoIP SIP Audio / Video RTP / RTCP stack, ISO 8583 / 8593 financial transaction server, storage device drivers for imaging scanning device.

Architect and delivered first version of Rediffmail.com web based email client and server (CGI, Perl script, POP3, SMTP, LDAP). Managed team for development of E-Commerce enterprise portal for sellers’ market place using Perl scripting language and Linux OS.

Richfield Computers Singapore November 1997 – November 1998 Software Engineer

Played a stellar role in growth of Start-up and pioneered, product architect, first-of-its-kind, Computer connected, Web enabled, RF 900 MHz digital spread-spectrum Cordless phone named ‘pcPiper’, ‘Yap Piper’ product (Price

$199, “Innovation of the Year”, Product Award in CES Innovation 2000 / 2001, Las Vegas). The Firmware for Cordless phone and Wireless Phone Base Embedded system, BIOS, RF wireless, display / keyboard / joy stick / optical mouse, USB device driver, and Windows PC application. Ingress Systems Bangalore March 1996 – October 1997 R&D Software Engineer

Architect and project managed related development of indigenous embedded systems products in the area of home networking, security, identification, building automations and cards transaction automation.

Lead a team for product development of distributed building access control embedded platform for reading magnetic / barcode cards swipe based on 8031 microcontroller. The embedded platform diversified to remote management and diagnostics of building control based on Unix server communication protocol with access devices.

Sunlux Technologies Bangalore January 1994 - February 1996 Software Engineer

Architect and managed real-time system (8-bit 8051 microcontroller) for Robot Control System (five different 3-axis robots), communication protocol through RS-485, handheld device for robot teaching for chemical process automation; MS Access DB and Visual Basic GUI for controlling through computer. Client was Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Department of Atomic Energy Kalpakkam

Designed embedded system based process control system based on Intelligent Process automation Supervisory control and Data Acquisition

(SCADA), Programmable Logic Controller, Microware OS9 (RTOS), Motorola 680x0, Modbus serial communication, CAN ; automated test jig firmware for automated hardware boards diagnostics.

Core Competences

Networking / Wireless Communication : TCP/IP socket programming, client

/ server, Cryptography, SSL / TLS, Internet / PKI Security, Home networking, VoIP, wireless gateway, Protocols stacks, Wireless Access Protocol, Push Access, Push-to-Talk, Bluetooth stack / profiles, SIP / RTSP

/ RTCP, NFC, RFID, LDAP

Embedded system Software : Device drivers, firmware, BIOS, BSPs, Linux Kernel porting, J2ME KVM / JVM, Mobile SoC System software

Middleware : Application framework, Web framework, Graphic engine, Mobile Java APIs, Linux libraries, UPnP, Location, Sensor, Mobile Data Management System, Pervasive Computing, AR / VR

Web : HTML, XML, JavaScript, ECMAScript Mobile Profile, CSS Mobile Profile, CGI, Web Ontology Language, Node.js, Real-time Web, WebSocket, WebDAV, REST, SOAP, Web Services, SaaS, PaaS

Connected Healthcare : Bio-Medical portable devices, Continue Stack, Medical Data Signal processing, Middleware, PHR, Healthcare Data storage

Automotive / Connected Car / IoT : System Layer, Middleware, IoT Gateway, MQTT, COAP, Home Automation, Advanced Driver Assistant System, Computer Vision algorithms, Connected Car Services, Remote monitoring and diagnostics, OBD II, In-Vehicle Infotainment, Fleet Management System, Electric Vehicle Battery Management.

Skills

Programming: ‘C’, C++, Java, Perl, Phyton, x86 Assembly Language.

OS : Linux, Embedded Linux, Unix, OS9 (RTOS), WinCE, VxWorks

Hardware platform : x86 (8-16 bits), ARM, Motorola (68000), Zilog (Z80)

Mobile Platform : Android, Samsung Handset Platform, Samsung Tizen, Symbian, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile

Professional Training

Post-Graduate Diploma In Microprocessor and Hardware, National Centre for Computing Techniques (NCCT), Bangalore, 1992

VxWorks, VLSI Design, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) - Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, 2003

Manager’s Toolkit, Rational UML Design, Microsoft Project Plan, Six Sigma Green Belt, ISO 9001-2000 Quality (KPMG), CMM-4 / CMM-5 (KPMG) – Samsung

Publications and Patents

Paper : “Realizing Zones Using UPnP”, IEEE Conference on Consumer Communication and Networking (CCNC), 2009

Patent:

o “Method and System for Managing data in near field communication network”, USA granted Patent

o “Method for providing and availing context aware services using RFID tags”, India Application

o “Method for giving recommendations based on context information and device thereof”, India application

Professional Affiliations

Fellow : The Institution of Engineers (India), International Scientific Research Organization for science, engineering and technology

Life Member : Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Computer Society of India, Institution of Engineering and Technology Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics, Bangalore University, 1991, First Class

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