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Shreyas Venkatesh

Shreyas Venkatesh

Lead Development Engineer
Bangalore

Summary

Professional with ten plus years of experience in IoT, Connected Wired/Wireless Technologies and Embedded Systems. Technical expertise on IP, Zigbee, BLE, 6LoWPAN, Thread, Matter(Standard) and other low power wireless networking technologies. Having worked at all Research & Development sites for Signify (Netherlands, India & China) can manage and adapt easily to multicultural environment with global integration. Keen on Innovation and collaboration to deliver bottom-line results.

Experienced Development Engineer with outstanding background in New Product Introduction (NPI) schedules, including rapid issue resolution. Proudly developed, supported and enhanced design. Good communication and analytical skills for interfacing with external teams. Ex-EU Blue card holder, my long-term career goal is to play a leading role in achieving new breakthroughs. I am always open for new opportunities and challenges.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Development Engineer

Signify
Bengaluru
01.2022 - Current
  • Developing and maintaining multiple wireless controllers and Gateway products for Digital Solutions that are based on Zigbee & BLE
  • Currently, designing and implementing features like Circadian Lighting and distributed Scheduler.

Development Engineer

Signify
05.2021 - 01.2023
  • Developing multiple wireless products for LED Electronics based on Zigbee & BLE
  • Also, has DALI capability that can drive any DALI drivers
  • Currently, migrating the controllers/devices to new SI labs latest platform based on MG24
  • Other features include developing hybrid OTA (cross upgrade based on both Zigbee-BLE), emergency driver support, others.
  • Enhanced product development by implementing innovative engineering solutions and utilizing cutting-edge technologies.
  • Supported creation and maintenance of process documentation for analysis process.
  • Resolved complex technical issues by applying critical thinking skills and leveraging extensive domain knowledge gained from years of experience in the industry.
  • Designed and developed prototypes with advanced materials, resulting in enhanced product performance and durability.
  • Collaborated with design engineers to support product specifications and functional robustness.
  • Prepared technical presentations for internal project engineering review.
  • Mentored junior engineers through guidance on best practices, fostering a positive work environment that encouraged professional growth.

Development Engineer

Signify Research
11.2018 - 02.2020
  • Part of the platform team responsible delivering a wireless platform supporting dual stack with Zigbee and BLE on SI labs chipset
  • Involved in active development of new features requested by the product teams from all the three business units at Signify
  • Day to day activities include designing and implementing the new features
  • Also, responsible for maintaining them
  • Namely two variants, one used by the gateways and another by luminaire controllers.

Development Engineer

Philips Lighting
03.2016 - 10.2018
  • Part of the product team responsible for designing and implementing features for ZigBee based wireless sensor for Cheetah project
  • Also, actively involved in continuous improvement for a matured product called Power over Ethernet Controller (PoELC)
  • Designed and implemented the new features for the next generation PoELC controllers
  • (v2.0, v2.1, v3.0, Tunable White)

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Philips Lighting
03.2014 - 03.2016
  • As a part of the product team responsible for realizing and implementing features for Networked wireless project
  • Responsible for creating application software for a two-chip solution hardware
  • TI based RF controller CC2530 with ZigBee interface for network communication and STM 32 controller for driver and lighting Protocols.

Embedded Software Engineer

Philips Lighting
08.2012 - 03.2014
  • As a platform team, responsible to deliver interface for the application development team
  • Responsible in predevelopment activities, stack configuration, add new components/packages to model lighting protocols, develop Utilities and services as per the application team
  • Troubleshooting and maintenance of the delivered platform
  • The development was based on a STM32 based controller on Philips Hardware
  • Also made a Proof of Concept with 6LoWPAN for Wireless lighting Solution for 4 months.

Intern

Philips Research
11.2011 - 07.2012
  • Upgraded a prototype dongle which works in 802.15.4 low power WLAN and connects to several wireless nodes
  • This dongle connects to a router that handles multiple wireless networks seamlessly
  • Work includes designing and implementing communication protocol between the dongle and router
  • In addition, finding the right sensors for desired application and integrating it at the node
  • Also, developing control software for this environment.

Education

Master of Science - Embedded Systems & Instrumentation

Manipal University
Manipal, India
04.2001 -

Master of Science - Control Embedded Systems

École Supérieure D'ingénieurs En Génie Électrique
Rouen, France
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Bengaluru, India
04.2001 -

Skills

C

C#

C

Java

Python

JavaScript

Embedded systems

Software Development

Performance Optimization

Scripting Languages

Product Development

Prototyping

Teamwork and Collaboration

Code Compliance

Patents

U.S. Patent WO/2020/126769 "CONTROL MODULE FOR CONTROLLING A LUMINAIRE" June 25, 2020

Paperpresentations

  • Seminar on Long Term Evolution [LTE], MIMO, OFDM. March(2010)
  • Seminar on Comparison of RF Data Communication Techniques used in Embedded Systems. May(2011)

Personal Information

  • Age: 35
  • Nationality: INDIAN

Certificationsworkshops

  • Certified as SAFe agile practitioner by Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • Certified and authorized for the next level for the completion of A1 level (part 1) in French at Alliance Francaise.
  • Completed Object Oriented Programming using C++ at NIIT.
  • Workshop on Digital Signal Processing organized at Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore India
  • Workshop named 'ROBOKRITI' Organized by ROBOMSR at M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore India
  • Workshop on Recent Trends in Communication Technologies organized at Atria Institute of Technology.

Otheractivitiesachievements

  • EU Blue Card holder (since Nov 2021).
  • Volunteer at Save Indian Family Foundation. (Since Feb 2018)
  • President for the Philips Intern Committee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In charge for holding the meetings with the board every week. Planning and organizing events for the interns at Philips. (Nov - Aug 2012)
  • Secured 3rd position in wired Robot Racing among 200 participants in an event 'ROBOKRITI'.
  • Have volunteered a nation level interschool event named 'Horlicks Wiz Kidz' in year 2007, 2006 and 2005 in Bangalore.
  • Secured 2nd position in Group Discussion a literary activity which was conducted at school level as a part of TALENTS WEEK.
  • Have participated in different school level events such as Maths Olympiad, Vedic Maths, and Mathematica and have secured meritorious positions by securing good mark.
  • I had been participating in Web page Designing Competition at interschool level. I have secured 2nd place at INSITE-2003 organized by Bishop Cotton Boys School and 3rd place at Seek-2002 conducted by Sri Kumarans School.

Projects

Thermal Image Camera Controller MARCH (2010) Worked at Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore. The objective was to achieve communication between Thermal Image Camera with the RADAR used for an L70 gun to view and engage an enemy target during night and bad weather conditions. Language: Assembly 8051, C Tools: Kiel, ORCAD Web Cam Driver Porting to Arm processor OCTDEC (2010) Worked at Manipal Center for Information sciences, Manipal. We ported web camera driver into the Arm processor kernel with the source code taken from a Linux kernel. Platform: Linux & VMware Hardware: Arm 9 board Wifibot Robot Navigation Feb (2011) Completed the project at ESIGELEC, Rouen France. The objectives of the project were to find a best trajectory between two positions and command the robot to follow the trajectory. Tools used: Code Blocks Language: Matlab, C Hardware: Wi-Fi robot JAVA Game May (2011) A simple game developed in java swings which adds a user, authenticate user. It simulates user login, and the status is saved during the run. Software development tool used: Eclipse Language: Java

Timeline

Development Engineer

Signify
01.2022 - Current

Development Engineer

Signify
05.2021 - 01.2023

Development Engineer

Signify Research
11.2018 - 02.2020

Development Engineer

Philips Lighting
03.2016 - 10.2018

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Philips Lighting
03.2014 - 03.2016

Embedded Software Engineer

Philips Lighting
08.2012 - 03.2014

Intern

Philips Research
11.2011 - 07.2012

Master of Science - Embedded Systems & Instrumentation

Manipal University
04.2001 -

Master of Science - Control Embedded Systems

École Supérieure D'ingénieurs En Génie Électrique
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
04.2001 -
Shreyas VenkateshLead Development Engineer