Multidisciplinary engineer with experience in various spheres of Software development including Embedded Firmware engineering, Android application development, Wireless Communication and Signal Processing and gaining experience with Software and Systems Engineering. Enjoys Collaborating with the best brains of the Engineering domain and expounding new path breaking technologies. Currently working as a Senior Firmware Engineer with Western Digital Technologies Inc. working in the firmware side of the latest disk drive technology. Previously interned in the Multimedia R&D Team at Qualcomm Inc and Indian Institute of Madras where I did research in acoustic signal processing which led to my first IEEE publication. Programming Languages : C, C++, Java Operating Systems : Windows, Linux Scripting Languages : PERL, Python Software Skills: MATLAB, JAWS, Trace Decoder, Verilog, VHDL, Firmware Drivers, Vuforia SDK, HD Tune Pro and other performance benchmarking tools, UART/JTAG Debuggers, Eclipse IDE and Android SDK and NDK, Open CV, Open GL Basics. Hardware: DSP Processor MSP 430, TIc6X DSP, XGIG Bus Analyzer, Arium Sourcepoint Emulator, Spectrum Analyzer, CRO, UART/JTAG Debuggers, SATA/SAS drives.

Senior Firmware Engineer @ • Senior Firmware Engineer involved in the coding and development of Embedded Firmware for Hard drives for Data Center related products and SATA drives and Personal Cloud Storage Solutions. • Currently working on coding disk drive firmware using C++ for SATA drives & developing new features for new products. • Writing PERL test scripts and running test scripts and combos, root causing failures and doing the required firmware fixes, validating changes and using version control for code maintenance. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Irvine, CaliforniaInterim Engineering Intern (Multimedia R&D Team) @ ->Worked on development of an android application for Fingertip detection and tracking and advanced interactive camera application for the mobile phones and tablets ->Worked on Finger Tip Detection and making gestures to take pictures for the mobile or tab (Fingertip detection for Touchless Interface) ->Also worked on creating an android application for arbitrary background tracking. Used Vuforia SDK for both these android applications From June 2013 to September 2013 (4 months) Greater San Diego AreaReader for CS 16 (Problem Solving in C) @ Worked as a Grader/Reader for the course From April 2013 to June 2013 (3 months) Summer Intern (Department of Electrical Engineering) @ Worked on Condition Monitoring of Equipments under Transient Voltage Conditions adopting Acoustic Emission Signatures. From May 2011 to July 2011 (3 months) Chennai

Master's degree, MS in Electrical and Computer Engg with emphasis in Communications, Control and Signal Processing, 3.81 @ University of California, Santa Barbara From 2012 to 2014 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.7 on 10 @ Anna University From 2008 to 2012 DAV Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Gopalapuram, Chennai From 2006 to 2008