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Gopalakrishna Tantri
Engineering Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Seasoned Engineering Manager adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel. Experienced leader and program manager with 18+ year history in field. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
6
6
Languages
Work History
Engineering Manager
04.2019 - Current
- Responsible for Park Assist, Drive Assist, Telematics, Networking and input/display related middleware component development (Gen3/ Gen4 and Android)
- Team development and management with budget responsibilities
- Customer engagement for the deliveries from these components with the end-to-end responsibility
- Group initiatives and competency development
- Efficiency improvement
- Achievements
- Design improvements with competency addition
- Takeover of the roles to expand the business
- Implemented strong data culture for ticket efficiency tracking/ aging etc.
- In-Vehicle Infotainment systems(A-IVI
Program Manager
11.2016 - 03.2019
- Defining the working model for sub supplier management for IVI project
- (Gen4)
- Technical content planning with multiple workshops with customer and TCS
- Customer interfacing
- Managing multiple other SW-PMs for different variants of the project (Gen3)
- Responsible for Plant co-ordination for the Low-Cost Navigation (Gen2)
- Achievements
- First project in CM with the TCS as sub supplier
- Defining NDA and other legal documentation
- Effective co-operation with TCS
Low Cost Car Navigation Systems
11.2010 - 10.2016
Project Manager / Senior Project Manager
Navigation System
01.2009 - 10.2010
- Eexecution of project from initiation to closure for two generation of the project on different platform for reputed customer
- Directly managing team of 25 people and indirectly responsible for the deliverables from 87 people working at multiple locations
- Weekly discussion with customer: Overall status reporting – tracking open points
- Team ramp-up: Recruitment, Competency build-up, Knowledge Transfer’s, Responsibility transfers
- Quality Audits, Metrics baselines, Tracking, implementing corrective and preventive actions
- Reports to Senior Management, Quarterly management reviews, escalation handling
- Project progress reviews, risk management, mitigation
- Cross functional team interaction, dependency resolution, solution focus
- Managing Navigation API, Audio Middleware, Media player component teams
- Achievements
- Effective deployment of JIRA to plan and track the activities efficiently
- Innovative communication mechanisms like Project Newsletter, Display boards to improve the team communication and performance
- Product topped the list for Quality in J D Power rating
- Appreciation from top management
- IPOD/iPhone component for CAR
Specialist (Technical Lead Role- Feature Owner)
03.2007 - 12.2008
- Requirements analysis and feature ownership for multiple customers
- Design and development of IPOD component using IAP protocol
- Design and development of IAP framework for Smartphone Application integration
- Mentoring the team and competency development for team members
- Issue management for multiple projects
- Regular customer interaction and weekly status reporting
- End customer clarification and counter measure proposals
- Achievements
- First project to use IAP and Smartphone integration in the customer department
- Rapid development with less bugs
- Apple self-certification to ensure performance of the component is within Apple expectation
- Audio middleware component for CAR Navigation
Senior Software Engineer
CAR Navigation Systems
06.2006 - 03.2007
- Design and development of component using in house CCA framework
- Implemented several client handlers and the logic to switch between the clients
- Interface development and implementation
- Diagnosis feature implementation for speakers, tweeters and lineout/amplifiers
- Achievements
- Worked along with developers at customer location
- Worked with Cross functional teams for interface definition and clarifications
- Proposed and implemented code optimization using OOAD and Design pattern concepts.
Senior Software Engineer
03.2006 - 05.2006
- IP conflict detection over the WAN interface and take corrective action
- DHCP and static cases considered separately
- Patching the kernel to detect IP conflict by spying the ARP packets
- Re-engineering of Linux IP Phone (2.6 version)
Senior Software Engineer
Multitech Software Systems .Ltd
Bangalore
08.2004 - 05.2006
- Analysis and debugging of critical bugs in the Operating System Abstraction Layer(OSAL)
- Coding and decoding of Audio codes and debugging at the level of DSP interfaces
- Solving the critical issues in the voice guidance module
- Design of next Generation Navigation cores
- Achievements
- Implemented a windows installer for one of the debug tools for the easier installation and usage
03.2005 - 01.2006
- Re-engineering is done by porting the voice application and its drivers to Montavista Linux 2.6.Creation of new Framework
- Refining kernel scheduler to get accurate idle time measurement
- LCD device driver tweaking
- Repackaging the IP Phone software
- Network Management Module Re-engineering for VOIP Gateway: Re-engineering is done by splitting the ubiquitous architecture into Client- Server Architecture
- Multithreaded Framework
- Multiple client mmanagement
- MIPS based IP Phone
- Montavista Linux
- XmlBooster Parser
- Dynamic DNS Client feature addition to Residential Gateway/ Broadband Modem ( Feb
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
MultiTech Software Systems Ltd
01.2004 - 01.2006
- Of it in Texas Instruments on deputation
- 03.2005
- Dynamic DNS is a feature, which facilitates to host the web servers over the dial up connections without the necessity of having a dedicated Static IP Address.
IGMP
10.2004 - 01.2005
- Proxy Enhancement for Residential Gateway / Broadband Modem, The network support package based on Montavista Linux has been tweaked to change the behaviour of IGMP Proxy in the presence of Bridge interfaces
- The Layer two in the Linux kernel has been modified to recognize the Multicast control as well as data packets by introducing a Multicast tables and timers
- Port triggering – A modification to the Netfilter Architecture
08.2004 - 09.2004
- Modification to the Netfilter Architecture for including a feature called port triggering
- Dynamically adding and deleting the Firewall rules to trigger the Dynamic Clients from communicating with the server
- This feature is usually used in Client to Client communication
- Key Responsibilities
- Requirements analysis of the features/work packages
- Concept preparation and review
- Design proposals and alternate technical solutions to realize the features/work packages
- C++ code development using object oriented methodologies in MontaVista Linux Environment
- Issue resolution and solution optimization
- Worked at Texas Instruments on deputation and interaction with client team
- Mentoring other junior colleagues and on the job trainings.
Project Trainee
01.2004 - 08.2004
- Convergence Solution for Locating and Object using GPS and Wireless networks (, GPS is used for locating an object precisely; GSM is used for wireless communication of the location information to the server
- Converging these two technologies results in a more useful Tracking system
- The project used GM47 GSM hardware module and REB-21R GPS hardware module and AT91FR4042 Microcontroller to integrate these two hardware modules
- Controller software for Water-flow Module.
PROJECT TRAINEE
Mindteck India Pvt Ltd
01.2003 - 01.2004
- NIPUN certified for AI and ML
- IDEA(L) Leader” – Awarded for the contribution of invention reports towards patents
- Performed the role of an Expert for “Business Field Analysis” – Special program apart from the normal responsibilities
- In depth study of Market, Competitors, Technology and synergizing Strategy
- Organized “PM Day event” at organization level led to recognition from RBEI/P
- Rewards and Recognition Initiative – Strategized and Spearheaded the R&R initiative for the entire department to recognize and reward people at all levels to improve the employee motivation
- Organized “TeXcellence event” to showcase the technical capabilities of our group in CM Department
- Trained Project Management community on Bosch specific “PRIME Tool” (MPP based customized tool), demonstrates project management concepts
- Letz Innovate” - An initiative across the department to collect and implement productivity ideas
- German Language - A2 Level qualified.
11.2003 - 12.2003
- The project has been developed using Embedded VC++ in WinCE platform
- PDA with a serial communication to the Flow-water Module is used in the project
- Several dll’s have been developed
- Development of GUI front-end
- Key Responsibilities
- Concept preparation and analysis of technological solution & demonstration to clients
- Independent C++ development and testing
- Thesis preparation
Education
M.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
VTU University
BE - Computer Science & Engineering
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Skills
Project Management – Microsoft Project, JIRA, Excel VBA, DOORs, Docushare
Program Management
Engineering Management
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Content based Leadership
Problem Solving
Team Building
Infotainment Systems
C, C, Python, OOAD
Accomplishments
- Managed up to 10 projects at a time.
- Awarded "Gold" Award for Productivity Improvement Initiative
- Supervised team of 40 staff members.
- Awarded "IDEA(L) Leader" Award for highest number of idea contribution towards invention reports
Certification
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Interests
Playing Tabala
Hobby Programming
Timeline
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04-2021
Engineering Manager
04.2019 - Current
Program Manager
11.2016 - 03.2019
Low Cost Car Navigation Systems
11.2010 - 10.2016
Project Manager / Senior Project Manager
Navigation System
01.2009 - 10.2010
Specialist (Technical Lead Role- Feature Owner)
03.2007 - 12.2008
Senior Software Engineer
CAR Navigation Systems
06.2006 - 03.2007
Senior Software Engineer
03.2006 - 05.2006
03.2005 - 01.2006
IGMP
10.2004 - 01.2005
Senior Software Engineer
Multitech Software Systems .Ltd
08.2004 - 05.2006
08.2004 - 09.2004
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
MultiTech Software Systems Ltd
01.2004 - 01.2006
Project Trainee
01.2004 - 08.2004
11.2003 - 12.2003
PROJECT TRAINEE
Mindteck India Pvt Ltd
01.2003 - 01.2004
- 03.2005
M.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
VTU University
BE - Computer Science & Engineering
Manipal Academy of Higher Education