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Sithara R

Bangalore

Summary

Accomplished Senior Technical Lead and Product Owner with 13 years of experience in software product development. Proven track record in leading agile teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that enhance simulation platforms, specializing in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) applications. Notable achievements include driving innovative product development and optimizing project collaboration through JIRA. Committed to leveraging technical leadership to propel advancements in automotive technologies.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Project Lead/Product Owner

Mercedes Benz Research and Development India
04.2023 - Current
  • Lead the SIL platform development team, and provide technical expertise to deliver robust software solutions for the simulation platform for ADAS.
  • Create and prioritize the backlog, aligned with the product roadmap, to enhance and maintain the application portfolio.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to gather and prioritize requirements for new ADAS feature validations.
  • Oversaw efficient product increment delivery through agile practice refinement.
  • Enhanced oversight of releases, configurations, and requirements for successful product launches.

Key Achievements:

  • Successfully delivered an ADAS SIL platform that reduced the validation cycle time by more than 30%.
  • Led a cross-functional team that identified and resolved critical simulation bottlenecks, improving the accuracy of SIL validation.
  • Enhanced the software validation process, leading to a 20% reduction in post-deployment issues.

Senior Technical Architect

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023
  • Product Owner for the MI5 Lite Data Acquisition Framework for the MTS system, used for testing and validation purposes of ADAS applications.
  • Design and Development of the MI5 Lite Data Acquisition Module for ADAS Sensors.
  • Verification and validation of MI5 Lite data acquisition from Radar (ARS540, ARS4XX) sensors and multiple devices, based on the customer configurations.
  • Responsible for product releases, demonstrating the product to customers, and the global team.

Technical Lead

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023
  • The software framework developed can handle data from multiple sensors, with multiple platform support.
  • The RDI Framework developed provides an Ethernet interface to receive raw data from multiple ARS430 RDI sensors connected in SOM-IP-UDP format.
  • Design and Implementation of the ARS430 RDI Framework for Multiple Sensor Support.
  • Implemented an automated build environment with CMake and provided cross-platform compilation.
  • Testing and validation of the ARS430 RDI framework with multiple radar sensors.
  • Cross-compilation and testing of ARS430RDI in Windows, Linux, and DrivePX environments.

Senior Engineer

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023
  • CEM200 software framework developed converting simulated synthetic data generated from vires environment to real data format
  • The generated recordings have data from Camera and Radar sensors
  • These simulated data converted to real recording data format which is used for testing and validation of CEM (Comprehensive Environment Model) fusion algorithms for ADAS
  • Worked on Complete product development and deployment
  • Documentation of Software product as per quality guidelines

Senior Engineer

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023
  • Objective is to provide complete tooling for Environmental model algorithm verification and validation for ADAS
  • Tool can be used in different stages of algo development
  • Addressing complete workflow from data recording to KPI generation
  • Worked on Complete product development of CEM Test and Validation Tools

Software Engineer

KPIT Technologies
09.2013 - 07.2015
  • Diagnostic Kernel Configuration Tool is used for diagnostic purpose
  • It supports diagnostic services and functionally addressed request/response messages required to be supported by motor vehicles and external test equipment
  • Worked on new feature development of Diagnostic Kernel Configuration Tool
  • Maintenance and Release of the new tool version based on the customer requirement

Software Engineer

Park Controls and Communications Pvt Ltd
10.2011 - 09.2013
  • PCM Decommutation and Processing Software plays the role in testing of the flight behaviors
  • The process involves acquiring data transmitted by the flight during the testing period, storing the data, converting data, displaying the various parameters results, also post activity analysis of data in Plot as well as table format
  • Worked on the development of new features and user interfaces (GUI) using MFC
  • Debugging and Bug fixing

Education

B. Tech - Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Vimal Jyothi Engineering College
Kerala
01.2009

12th Std -

Mattanur Higher secondary school
Kerala
01.2005

SSLC -

Mattanur Higher secondary school
Kerala
01.2003

Skills

  • Proficient in C Programming
  • Experienced with Qt Framework Development
  • Docker containerization Expertise
  • Communication Protocols: SOME IP, UDP, Ethernet
  • ADAS Tool Development Expertise
  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Stakeholder management
  • Tool Chain:Jenkins,Git lab CI/CD
  • Agile Scrum, Kanban Methodology
  • JIRA, Confluence proficiency
  • DOORS Requirements Management

Work Profile

Currently working as a Senior Technical Lead at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, from April 2023 to date

Worked as a Senior Technical Architect at Continental Automotive Components India Pvt Ltd in ADAS from July 2015 to March 2023

Worked as a Software Engineer at KPIT Technologies from September 2013 to July 2015

Worked as a Software Engineer at Park Controls and Communications from October 2011 to September 2013

Timeline

Senior Project Lead/Product Owner

Mercedes Benz Research and Development India
04.2023 - Current

Senior Technical Architect

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023

Technical Lead

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023

Senior Engineer

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023

Senior Engineer

Continental Automotive components India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 03.2023

Software Engineer

KPIT Technologies
09.2013 - 07.2015

Software Engineer

Park Controls and Communications Pvt Ltd
10.2011 - 09.2013

B. Tech - Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Vimal Jyothi Engineering College

12th Std -

Mattanur Higher secondary school

SSLC -

Mattanur Higher secondary school
Sithara R