Engineer Software

Ramesh B Kudrikar

Summary of Skills and Experience

●Currently working as Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon and have around 15 yrs. of experience in technical and embedded device software. Have experience in working on project schedule, creating software milestones, software releases management and work towards to meeting schedule by partnering with multiple cross functional teams.

●Built new processes for music certification, Beta co-ordination, metrics and DB management tool, on-call process for beta issues, Alexa app release process, etc. from scratch which is now widely used across multiple teams.

●Experience in leading and managing TPM and QA teams, involved in resource planning, working with cross functional teams, test plans/strategies, Product management, launch team, involved in generating POs, etc.

●Have strong experience using Google suite and MS Project software, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, Confluence, JIRA.

●Drive the product from requirements phase to end of release. Work closely with Software Development teams from inception to launch. Create specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing the production launch.

●Experience in delivering and commercialization of consumer electronics devices. I have delivered around 20+ Alexa devices which includes headless, multi-modal devices and firmware-based devices.

●Provide technical leadership to various cross functional teams in order to achieve project goals.

●Responsible for communicating critical issues to management, clear the bottlenecks if any, and prioritize business needs over technical issues.

●Responsible for hiring, building, providing mentorship to TPM/QA engineers, develop them in their career to meet their goals.

●Responsible for identifying the test tools, working with PE’s in reviewing and work with team in achieving them.

●Have work experience working with teams and vendors in Europe, US and Asia.

Technical Expertise- Embedded and firmware-based devices- device software OTA, UPL metrics, etc.

App (Android and IOS) releases.

Technical Program Management at Amazon-lab126 Nov’14 – till date

Location: Cupertino/Sunnyvale, CA

Products: Echo, Echo Show, Echo Auto, Echo Buds, Frames etc.

Leading the program from inception to launch on new products, software release management and schedule management.

Working with cross functional Development and QA teams in managing the schedule, bug burndown, milestones and update the status to leadership team on daily/weekly basis.

Communicate status and schedules, manage risks, help reports evaluate trade-offs, and call out impediments

Create frameworks to identify and drive technical and process improvement opportunities

Work with engineering partners to continuously improve our service deployment/orchestration platform and drive the program and process for Disaster Readiness.

Measure, monitor, and communicate metrics internally

Worked as an E2E QA lead for leading new devices-Alexa devices, driving across all stakeholders of the project from the inception of project to device launch.

Work in highly tight schedules in releasing product, OTA releases monthly

Analysis, debugging of issues raised by customers and internally

Working on new projects, test planning, resource planning etc.

Work with third party teams in US, Portland, India, UK in coordinating work

On-call activity for releasing tested software on schedule, handle issues in the pre-alpha, beta customers and also in the field.

Work with different stakeholders across device like cloud team, far-field, hardware, thermal etc. technology teams in discussing/designing new features

Handling customer issues on different use-cases across device.

Wireless Power system test Engineer at Qualcomm Dec’11- Nov’14

Role: Lead and individual contributor

Location: San Diego, CA

Working on Bluetooth/WLAN/FM power testing on Qualcomm SoC- on Android, Microsoft Windows 8, 8.1 and QNX platforms. The products include tablets, phones.

BT/FM/WLAN/NFC/BLE Power measurements on Android phones, Windows phone8 1.0 and 2.0/tablets, QNX

Analysis, debugging of power waveforms

Rail breakdowns and analysis on WLAN, BT, FM, NFC

Capture and analysis RPM dump, pronto dumps, PMIC, QXDM, QDSS logs, clock dumps etc.

Competitive analysis of battery measurements on commercially available devices

Stress and Stability testing on BT/Coex features

System test Engineer (Contract) at Marvell Semiconductor, Santa Clara Apr’10 – Dec’11

●Testing Bluetooth profiles, debugging failed test cases and report them to the development team

●PTS certification testing

●IOP testing with different laptops

Wipro Technologies Jun ’05 – Apr’10

Role: Lead Engineer

PAG BPM- Bluetooth Phone Module V&V

Location: Continental Automotive-Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Prepare test plan, execution, reporting defects, analysis and track them to closure.

Involved in field testing on Land Rover, Jaguar and BMW cars

Award: TITANS award from the client

Qualification

●M.Tech in Software Engineering, VTU, Karnataka, 2003-2005

●B.E. (Computer Science), VTU, Karnataka,1998- 2002

Address:

7222 Bark Ln Apt 29

San Jose CA 95129

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