DEEPAK NAIKNAVARE
Electronics Design & Development
Pune
Summary
- Demonstrated proficiency in team collaboration and problem-solving to deliver high-quality solutions. Experienced with technical leadership in engineering projects, focusing on system architecture and development.
- A dynamic professional with more than 12 Years of diverse experience in Hardware Design, power supply (Buck, Boost, HalfBridge, Flyback
- Adept in end-to-end development of electronic products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, testing, de- bugging, and V model documentation.
- Having good knowledge of Hardware development life cycle (HDLC) of a project upto SIL2 (IEC61508).
- Good knowledge in the Layout up to 10 Layers, conduct in depth reviews, can guide for EMC designs.
- Good Debugging skills, Experience of multiple Analog and Digital designs.
- Expertise in Electronic devices: FETs, BJTs, Opamps, Transformers, Digital Analog IO’s.
- Expertise in detailed worst-case calculations for safety designs using Mathcad.
- CPRE certified for Requirement Management and elicitation. ISO61508 functional safety certified by TUV.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Lead Engineer
Knorr-Bremse
06.2025 - Current
- Enhanced team productivity by providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers including detail Layout reviews with first time right approach.
- Adherence to JIRA and estimations by prompt resolution of issues.
- The projects involved the development of a high-power battery source, charging modules, and intelligence for managing the battery system for railways.
- The team was involved right from scratch in architecture and design finalization.
- The modules involved a high-power AC-DC converter for 150W, which charged the battery in CC mode.
- An intelligent module to manage and control the battery system, which includes a controller (120 MHz) and multiple analog sensing and communication interfaces, like CAN, I2C, and 5-port Ethernet switch.
- Documentation for various stages in the PTC Integrity tool.
Sr. Technical Specialist
Knorr-Bremse Technology Centre
12.2015 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality projects within tight deadlines.
- Boosted customer satisfaction by addressing complex technical issues in a timely manner.
- Independently handled knowledge transfer for Switzerland client (onsite) to develop EMC test systems in India and generating compliance reports with railway standards EN50121.
- Design of wide range (14.4V to 154V to 12V) power supply with Railway standards certification
- Design of 4 channel 4mA to 20mA output module with Analog input switch ability.
- Design of RS485 to split 4 channel optical converter in limited time with certification.
- Design for Safety Digital input and Digital output (SIL2 certified design)
- Design of 4 channel Ethernet Switch for multiple sensor interface
- Design of High-power motor control switch delivering current up to 26A at 48V
- Detail Layout review for all boards.
- Creation of Test plan, test report, certifications and requirements tracaebility for all above boards.
Hardware Design Engineer
Honeywell Automation India Ltd.
05.2010 - 06.2013
- Important resource in the gas and fire detection system project development .
- Assigned with a control module having memory interfaces, I/O module interfaces, and motherboard interfaces along with supporting Analog modules.
- Board bring-up, functional testing, debugging of the hardware, maintaining documents.
- EMI-EMC testing and debugging of the complete system at offshore and on-site.
- Test Plan – Module Test Plan (MTP), Integrated Test Plan (ITP).
- Major Achievements at Honeywell:
- Bravo star Award for the debugging of SDRAM issue in predesigned module that led to module failure.
- Bravo Star Award for debugging and performing the EMI/EMC testing with efficiency and within time.
- Peer award for the support and conduction of the certification tests at Poole (UK) Lab.
Education
B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication
Shri Ramanand Tirth Marathwada University
01.2009
Skills
Schematic Design Tools: Mentor(Designer Vx), Altium
PROFICIENCY FORTE
- The wide range of projects has led to experience in diverse areas:
- Good knowledge in analog, digital and mixed signal circuit designing.
- Good knowledge in high-speed digital interface designing.
- Good knowledge in multiple schematic capture tools (Orcad CIS, Design Capture)
- Done EMI/EMC testing at accredited labs in India and Onsite.
- Coordinating with Layout engineer. Reviewing symbols, footprint, and layout for PCB design
- Hands on experience of signal Integrity analysis (Pre-Layout and Post-Layout) of High Speed designs
- Green Belt Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Core certified
- Hands on experience of using six sigma tools – DFMEA, Pugh Matrix, Thought Map
- Coordinating with Firmware developer and testing team.
- Good understanding of IEC standards: 61508, 50155 and environmental and regulatory test standards
- Have experience in USB, Ethernet, 485, Modbus, CAN.
- Good expertise in Antenna theory, transformers, Optical communication
Hobbies
Cricket, Running
Timeline
Technical Lead Engineer
Knorr-Bremse
06.2025 - Current
Sr. Technical Specialist
Knorr-Bremse Technology Centre
12.2015 - Current
Hardware Design Engineer
Honeywell Automation India Ltd.
05.2010 - 06.2013
B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication
Shri Ramanand Tirth Marathwada University