Nandi Vardhan Harlalli Rajendra
Bengaluru
Summary
Aspiring to play an active role in shaping groundbreaking technologies with a strong focus on driving innovation from concept to deployment. Committed to joining a forward-thinking, knowledge-centric team that offers opportunities for refining expertise and contributing meaningfully to organizational and personal success.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Engineer
Elektrobit India Private Limited
08.2022 - Current
- E-Horizon Development: Designed and implemented advanced E-Horizon features and extensions for automotive clients using C++. Collaborated in tooling and process improvement activities. Demonstrated good debugging skills and solved critical bugs.
- R&D Leadership: Initiated and co-led departmental R&D initiatives, organizing technical talks and ideation sessions to foster innovation.
- Global Collaboration: Collaborated with European colleagues to develop and enhance E-Horizon features, ensuring alignment with international standards and client requirements.
- Product Demonstrations: Presented E-Horizon product capabilities at high-profile product shows and prepared comprehensive demonstrations for the sales team at the MSIL Tech Show.
- Knowledge Sharing: Presented work at AHMs, ensuring organization-wide awareness and collaboration within the department.
- Client Engagement and Integration: Led debugging sessions with clients to identify and resolve product issues, ensuring seamless integration of E-Horizon features into their systems.
Assistant Professor (Senior Grade)
Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore
07.2013 - 07.2022
- Teaching: Delivered undergraduate courses including Data Structures, Robotic Control, Control Systems, Industrial Automation, VLSI, Multimedia Communication, Signals & Systems, Electronic Circuits, and Microcontrollers.
- Student Mentorship: Co-mentored ECIF, a student technical forum organizing workshops, lectures, and events.
- Workshops: Attended IIT–MHRD workshops on Signals & Systems and Control Systems.
- Project Supervision: Guided undergraduate projects in automation, embedded systems, and automotive systems
Lecturer
ATME College of Engineering, Mysore
08.2012 - 07.2013
- Teaching & Labs: Handled courses in Information Theory & Coding, Basic Electronics, Operating Systems, and labs in Advanced Communication and Analog Electronics.
- Research Contribution: Active member of the institution’s “Aavishkar” R&D cell
Software Developer
Keane India, Bangalore
12.2007 - 01.2009
- Team Contributions: Worked on Smart Cards and RFID solutions as part of a successful project team.
- Development: Built prototype applications on the .NET platform (C#).
- Client Projects: Contributed to a diagnostic tool development for US clients.
Project Trainee
TTM institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India
07.2007 - 12.2007
- Certification: Certified Layout Engineer by TIIT in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz Extension (Silicon Valley) and Cadence.
- VLSI Design: Designed USB wrapper and PCI Express blocks, including floorplanning, P&R, CTS, and timing optimization.
Education
Online certification - Machine learning
Coursera
Master of Engineering - Electronics engineering, Intelligent Systems
Deakin University
04.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
06.2007
Skills
- Proficient in C, C, and Python
- Skills (Tools and Technology): Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Enterprise Architect, Jira, GoogleTest, CMAKE, Hardware Development, Various Sensors, Raspberry pi, OOPS concepts, Data structures
- Area of Interest: Software Development, Data Science Automation, Robotics, Machine Learning
HIGHLIGHTS
Currently working as an Executive Engineer at Elektrobit, contributing to ADAS software development in Connected Mobility.
- Experience: 5 years in software development and 10 years in academia (teaching & research).
- Recognition: Twice honored as EB Key Talent; recipient of an individual cross-project award.
- Innovation: Conceptualized and delivered a POC that earned a team award.
- Outreach: Delivered a tech talk on Digital Maps to academia under Elektrobit’s university initiatives.
- Social Impact Projects: Led initiatives such as sign-to-speech conversion and women’s safety systems for passenger vehicles, featured in The Hindu and Times of India.
- Research Leadership: Supervised and led teams on thermal imaging for object detection, planar robot gait control, Hexcopter control, and more.
- Academic Leadership: Coordinated NAAC accreditation, served as an IIC ambassador (MHRD), organized conferences (VLSI SATA, UBICNET), workshops, and mentored the Amrita TEDx event.
Training
- Trainings on problem solving, certification on Machine learning and other soft skills trainings
- Undergone training in soft skills and professional development as a part of work culture
References
References will be provided on request
Publications
- Smart gloves for hand gesture recognition: Sign language to speech conversion system 2016 International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications (RAHA)
- Smart Gloves: A novel 3-D Work Space Generation for Compound Two Hand Gestures Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Control and Computer Vision
- Modelling and Control of Three-link Planar Robot for Stable Walking Gait 2018 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Communication, Computer, and Optimization Techniques (ICEECCOT)
- Step Counting Navigation Assistant 2019 1st International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Intelligent Control, Environment, Computing & Communication Engineering (ICATIECE)
- Object Detection Using Thermal Imaging 2020 IEEE 17th India Council International Conference (INDICON)
Timeline
Executive Engineer
Elektrobit India Private Limited
08.2022 - Current
Assistant Professor (Senior Grade)
Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore
07.2013 - 07.2022
Lecturer
ATME College of Engineering, Mysore
08.2012 - 07.2013
Software Developer
Keane India, Bangalore
12.2007 - 01.2009
Project Trainee
TTM institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India
07.2007 - 12.2007
Master of Engineering - Electronics engineering, Intelligent Systems
Deakin University
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Online certification - Machine learning
Coursera
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