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Senior Chief Engineer @ Samsung R&D Institute India | Platform Architecture, Camera HAL

About

With over 15 years of experience, including four years as Senior Chief Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India, I specialize in end-to-end camera system architecture, multi-camera hardware topologies, sensor integration, and Camera HAL3 middleware development. My expertise spans advanced technical domains such as ISP pipelines, V4L2, kernel-to-user-space buffer synchronization, and multi-camera synchronization. At Samsung, I developed an AI-driven automated workflow to streamline camera middleware bring-up, significantly reducing development time. A contributor to the Linux kernel (Media/V4L2 and IIO subsystems), my work focuses on addressing UAF and memory leak fixes. I am deeply committed to advancing camera technologies, with a patent-pending innovation in smart camera composition reflecting this dedication.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Chief engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs, Bengaluru, Current Focus: End-to-end camera system architecture, multi-camera hardware topologies, sensor integration, and HAL features including Night Mode, HDR, and custom video pipelines. Technical Domain: V4L2, ISP pipeline, kernel-to-user-space buffer synchronization, multi-camera sync fences, and flash state-machine convergence loops. Workflow Automation: Developed an automated 10-step camera middleware bring-up workflow using AI agents (Cline) to parse size-tables and generate multi-sensor configurations, reducing bring-up time from weeks to hours. Open Source & Patents: Upstream Linux kernel contributor (Media/V4L2 and IIO subsystems) focusing on UAF and memory leak fixes. Patent Pending (2024) for a real-time smart camera composition system.

Staff Software Engineer at TECHNICOLOR CONNECTED HOME RENNES, May 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Project Lead Developer at L&T Technology Services Limited, May 2012 - May 2020 · 8 yrs 1 mo, Working in Mission critical LTE Handheld for Motorola Solutions,Israel. Implementation and configurations of specific functionality of LTE and CDMA as per carrier [Verizon] specifications. Porting various BSP components as display, Camera, memory and Sensors on multiple chipset.

Embedded Software Consultant [Contracter] at Zebra Technologies, Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs, New York, United States

Embedded System Engineer [Contractor] at Motorola Solutions, May 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos, Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

Education

Master of Science (M.S.), Embedded System design, Manipal university

B.E., Electronics and communication, Gujarat University