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Kalyan Chakravarty

Bangalore

Summary

Accomplished cybersecurity architect and software engineering leader with 25+ years of expertise in embedded systems and high-performance software development across global, cross-functional teams. Dedicated and adaptable professional with a proactive attitude and the ability to learn quickly. Strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to effective security posture of the organization as well assigned projects. Currently serving as the Interim Cybersecurity Lead for the IC Strategic Business Unit, driving organizational security strategy and regulatory compliance.
Core Competencies: Cybersecurity Leadership: Expert in threat modeling, risk assessment, and security architecture design, with proven success in automotive cybersecurity initiatives and product launches. Leverage deep security knowledge to define security concepts in RFIs and RFQs for multiple OEMs.
Regulatory Compliance: Deep expertise in UNECE R155/R156, Cybersecurity RED regulation, GB44495-2024, JAMA, and GDPR regulations. Technical Expertise: Knowledge of frameworks such as NIST CSF and security principles such as Defense in Depth, Secure SDLC, Cryptography, PKI, and Trusted Execution Environments. Team Development: Experienced mentor specializing in guiding high-performing cybersecurity teams across international sites. Key Responsibilities: Collaborate closely with the Center of Excellence Cybersecurity to drive security best practices and innovation. Lead security incident response coordination with PSIRT teams, ensuring comprehensive vulnerability management across all products and programs. Align business unit security teams with enterprise cybersecurity objectives and strategic initiatives. Ensure compliance with cybersecurity regulations, standards, and organizational CSMS processes across diverse product portfolios.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Principal Engineer II

Harman International
Bengaluru
02.2023 - Current
  • Technical leadership: - Demonstrated thorough knowledge of the ISO/SAE 21434 automotive cybersecurity standard by ensuring the cybersecurity work products to be delivered, like Item Definition, Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) report, Cybersecurity Concept, etc., were compliant and would pass internal cybersecurity assessments conducted as part of the Harman CSMS (CyberSecurity Management System).
    - Developed the field analysis concept in the Space4 Adv2.0 product with the support of the bootloader and security teams, steered the technical discussions towards plausible outcomes, and ensured security was front and center during the technical discussions.
    - Escalated critical security risks to executive leadership, with clear business impact analysis.
    - Established productive working and collaborative relationships with the SOC suppliers, like Samsung and Qualcomm. Provided technical inputs toward the Statement of Work with these suppliers to ensure the cybersecurity-relevant features were included in the scope.
    - Managed the remediation of issues reported by a third-party pen test supplier.
    - Facilitated a comprehensive Exynos TEE workshop for platform and product security teams, ensuring there was sufficient knowledge and understanding within the teams to successfully utilize the TEE, an otherwise complex task.
    Cross-functional team leadership: - Coordinated security architecture across multiple cross-functional teams (such as Manufacturing and the Manufacturing IT team) and established clear requirements traceability to the cybersecurity goals and controls, and further to the customer requirements.
    - Led the regulatory compliance effort across multiple teams, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc., ensuring that the complex technical regulatory requirements were translated into actionable technical implementation requirements.

System Architect

TP Vision India Private Limited
Bengaluru
07.2016 - 02.2023
  • Performing in-depth design and implementation reviews of key deliverables
  • Strengthening technical guidance to multi-site cross-functional teams of around 50 members.
  • Representing Bangalore site in architecture forums/ technical/requirements workshops and weekly meetings with customers.
  • Conducting on-site debugging support to solve critical issues faced by customers in order to ensure project milestones are met
  • Liaising with customers for feature discussions, requirements review and analysis
  • Preparing technical feasibility analysis for change requests with team architects and providing effort estimates
  • Mentoring and facilitating technical guidance and training to team members to enable them to take up the next level of responsibilities.
  • Orchestrating overall system stability via cross-site stability alignment meetings and architecture forum in order to achieve the 80% pass percentage
  • Diagnosing system performance bottlenecks and suggesting changes to remove them
  • Driving key design and implementation changes to improve system robustness and meet system non-functional requirements
  • Identifying key areas/patterns from crash dump analysis, reviewing stability test cases and suggesting changes to improve feature coverage
  • Expediting technical solutions for critical stability related issues faced by cross-site teams.

System Architect

TP Vision India Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 01.2023
  • Project Name: Philips Android TV for Hospitality.
  • Duration: 2K21, 2K20, 2K19, and 2K18 ranges.
  • Team Size: 20.
  • Overall system architect in BLR.
  • Driving execution architecture for the HTV models in order to reach an 80% pass percentage: Solving critical crashes and reboots, fine-tuning Android system parameters in order to ensure optimal system performance as per non-functional requirements.
  • System design for key features such as JEDI (Java Enterprise Development Interface - a proprietary interface enabling system integrators to build responsive and feature-rich apps for Philips hotel TVs).
  • Was involved in providing solutions for critical issues like: High CPU load on startup, Low memory issues seen in stability tests.

System Architect

01.2016 - 05.2018
  • Project Name: Philips Android TV 2K17
  • Team Size: 10
  • Handling the Android Lollipop to Android Marshmallow upgrade project for Philips TVs based on Mediatek 5596 platform.
  • System design of Silent upgrade feature
  • Execution architecture: Solving critical crashes/reboots/Watchdogs/Out of memory bugs, refining Android/kernel parameters for optimal performance.

Product Owner & Software Architect

06.2015 - 12.2015
  • Project Name: Philips Android TV 2K16
  • Team Size: 20
  • Responsible for deriving the top level design from the user stories and detailed implementation of IOS applications on App Store, and overall design of Android applications on Play Store.
  • Preparing product backlog, planning the backlog items for sprints, performing stakeholder management, providing planning inputs to top management, providing technical guidance to the team and mentoring them to improve further.

Software Architect

01.2013 - 05.2015
  • Project Name: Philips Hotel Tv MediaSuite 2014 range
  • Team Size: 17
  • Philips Hotel TV MediaSuite has many Hospitality domain specific features like IPTV, allows control of TVs via SXP and JAPIT (proprietary protocols), Secure Simply Share based on WIFI Direct, VSecure (Philips proprietary content encryption) and SmartInstall (allows hoteliers to manage and install multiple TVs on-site).
  • Top level and detailed design for critical modules like JAPIT, SXP, VSecure.
  • Provided solution for multiple critical issues like: TVs getting blanked when changing channels at a specific hotel, TVs starting up on their own in the night in certain hotels.

Software Architect

01.2012 - 12.2012
  • Project Name: Philips Fusion TV range - User Experience team
  • Team Size: 15
  • Deriving top level design from functional requirements
  • Facilitating project management and risk management
  • Providing effort estimates for various work packages
  • Providing technical guidance / mentoring the team and ensuring design met the requirements
  • Was involved in the design of key features like: CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), WifiDirect wizard.

Education

B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

National Institute Of Technology
Trichy, India
01.2001

HSC & SSC - ICSE

St Mary's Academy
Meerut, India
01.1997

Skills

  • System and security architecture
  • Incident response and recovery
  • Vulnerability assessment and management
  • Threat modeling and analysis
  • Secure coding practices
  • Cryptography and encryption
  • Public key infrastructure management
  • Cybersecurity frameworks implementation
  • Intrusion detection systems
  • Network security design principles
  • Risk assessment strategies
  • Android application development
  • Core component integration
  • AOSP expertise
  • Java programming skills
  • Debugging techniques with GDB
  • ADB proficiency
  • RTOS experience in Linux/VxWorks
  • C programming language proficiency
  • Python programming skills

Websites

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Telugu
Beginner (A1)
A1
Tamil
Beginner
A1
Kannada
Beginner
A1

Certification

  • Certified Automotive Cyber Security Practitioner (CACSP) - TUV SUD Credential ID IN/25803/272800

Timeline

Sr Principal Engineer II

Harman International
02.2023 - Current

System Architect

TP Vision India Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 01.2023

System Architect

TP Vision India Private Limited
07.2016 - 02.2023

System Architect

01.2016 - 05.2018

Product Owner & Software Architect

06.2015 - 12.2015

Software Architect

01.2013 - 05.2015

Software Architect

01.2012 - 12.2012

B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

National Institute Of Technology

HSC & SSC - ICSE

St Mary's Academy

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