Aniruddha Gajalkar

Work Responsibility under discussion

Project : Radar 7th Generation Platform Development

Responsibilities

• Complete Basic Software Delivery responsibility, Technical responsilbiity (as a Cost Center Responsible : Integration & Rollout 2) as a part of Global Software House (Internal cross functional segment, responsible for delivering Autosar based Basic software across multiple Product Segments)
• Played multiple roles Product Owner , Group Lead/Delivery Responsible to achieve the BSW Delivery responsibility from GSH to Radar Product segment
• Inter Cultural Team encompassing 15 HC from SeiTech(Egypt), 3 HC from India, 6 HC from Germany
• Nxp SAF85xx Chip with External Flash with communication on Ethernet
• Worked on strong Memory constraints as the SW execution from RAM.
• Successful collaboration with Vector to reduce the Vector SW footprint from 1400KB to 750 KB
• Strong collaboration and understanding of Germany culture and German colleagues
• As responsible as Product owner took responsibility of the Cyber Security team, SYS team in regards to the Basic Software topics
• Responsible to maintain cost, Delivery, Quality, time-line for BSW topics.

Shifted to HELLA Headquarters as an Expat for 2 Years

Project : Electronic Power Steering System, FailOperational.

Safety Classification : ASIL D

Customer : Volkswagen Braunschweig

Responsibilities

• SYS and SW Group Lead Responsibility, Team Strength : 5 Headcount
• People Management, Invoicing, Utilization rate
• Closely contributed in external Safety Assessment and resolving Safety relevant assessment open points
• Worked closely to define ASIL D Safety compliant SW Development process for MATLAB Models which got approval from external Safety assessors
• Strong Inter Cultural skillset developed by Interaction between German, France, India

Project : Reverse Park Assistance System based on Ultrasonic Sensors

Customer : Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, Ashok Leyland

Key Responsibilities

• Software Project Manager for Non AUTOSAR based SW to meet AIS145 Reverse parking regulations for Commercial Vehicles
• Customer face for Technical and System activities
• Handled System engineering responsibilities during Project Acquisition and Concept definition phase
• Key point of contact for End of Line concept definition and development
• Cross domain interaction (MD, SYS, TEST, HW) to ensure smooth functioning of project
• Received multiple appreciations from customer for resolving key issues in time, at customer location
• Developed Common ECU SW and Common Sensor Calibration across multiple vehicle variants, avoiding EOL at customer location
• Defined SW Architecture and sensor configuration which covers full vehicle width with only 4 Sensors, whereas competitors are providing 5 Sensor configurations, enabling cost advantages for the organization
• Received multiple 'Pat on the Back', awards for supporting project acquisition, Customer issue resolution

Project : Electronic Power Steering ( Fail-Operational ), Safety Classification : ASIL D

Customer : Volkswagen Braunschweig

Delivered Responsibilities

• Management and Steering of the team from India and end to end delivery responsibility from India.
• Team Strength : 24 Internal Headcount, 11 External Service Provider (Tata Elxsi)
• Internal team responsible for : SW Requirements, SW Architecture, Module Design, Module Development, SW Integration.
• External Service Provide : Module Testing
• Overall SW development footprint was in 2 Locations, Toulouse(France), Pune (India)
• People Management, Technical and Quality delivery responsibility
• Built high-performing teams through effective recruitment, onboarding, and talent development initiatives.
• Built a well defined Hierarchical structure within the team enabling myself to take additional Local Reverse Park assistance project
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• Software Group Leader for Electronic Power Steering
• Handling Software project management responsibilities for Fail Operational Electronic Power Steering SW Platform project (SW ASIL D, AUTOSAR 4.x)
• People manager for a team of 14 members
• Interaction with culturally diverse HELLA teams located at France, Germany, Vietnam
• Managing Offers, POs, Invoices and tracking Utilization rate for the team
• Project cost estimation, tracking, Resource estimation
• AUTOSAR license, MCAL license procurement
• Responsible for Skill gap assessment and skill development for the team
• Establish and adhere ASIL D development process in the team
• Successfully increased team share of responsibilities from ENG .6 deliverables to a full SW Platform project delivery
• People retention rate of more than 90% for last 3 years
• Received 'Manager of the Year' award in the year 2019
• Received multiple 'Pat on the Back', Excellence awards for mentoring team

• Software Development for ADAS systems
• Porting of MATLAB based algorithm’s to C
• C code optimization for DSP controller
• Requirement analysis and embedded porting for ADAS systems
• Received 'WOW' awards thrice for the innovative work done optimization and development for ADAS systems