Vinith Kumar Nandanam

Group Manager/Senior Architect

Bosch•  August 2023 - November 2024•  Coimbatore

• Effectively led a cross-functional team of 35+ engineers, ensuring timely project delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.’ to emphasize leadership and stakeholder management. • Spearheaded the successful delivery of the Customer boot block (CB) module, aligning with client expectations and timelines.’ to emphasize leadership and strategic alignment. • Mentored and coordinated CB team (High performance compute team) 10+ Engineers in achieving Level 2.0 ASPICE for System, Software requirements and verification Process group. • Escalation management addressing such that stake holder commitment and timelines are not missed. • Proactively resolved team conflicts, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.’ to highlight conflict resolution skills. • Handling time zone operating challenges (Germany, Vietnam, China, India).

Program Manager/Senior Manager II

capgemini•  April 2022 - August 2023•  Bangalore

• Leading and Managing India GoPro platform development team • Design, Development and review of GoPro platform features in HAL and MCU (STM32) side. • Debugging and bug fixing of platform related camera issues, guiding engineers in debugging • Discussing, requirement gathering and technical meeting with internal/external GoPro counter parts (USA, Bucharest and China Teams) • Involvement in review of cross functional modules in the Camera • Recruitment of engineers, leads for the GoPro camera and other new Upcoming project teams.

Technical Manager

Pathpartner (KPIT)•  January 2018 - April 2022•  Bangalore

• Leading camera development team and interacting with various stakeholders across the globe. • Managing OpenVx kernel adaptation team for FastCv and Arm compute libraries (Qualcomm) • Managing and leading Vision kernels optimization team for the proprietary hardware (Synopsys Ev6x). • Managing team of Audio codecs (Dolby and DTS) plugins using Gstreamer for prospective customer (Qualcomm) • Leading, Design, planning and development of Audio ASPs, Audio codecs in TI framework for prospective customer (Anam Electronics)

Senior Technical Lead

Pathpartner(KPIT)•  January 2015 - December 2017•  Bangalore

• H264 decoder optimization on AM437x platform (https://www.design-reuse.com/articles/40202/efficient-simd-and-algorithmic-optimization-techniques-for-h264-decoder-on-cortex-a9.html ) . Lead the team. • Guiding the team of engineers for the design of fast algorithms for reference HEVC encoder in x86 platform. • Fast Algorithm Design and development (C coding) for Reference HEVC Encoder in x86 platform. • Ramping up on Shannon HEVC encoder code base (C level coding) and the modules to get the overall hands on leading the project for the future. • Projects involved in: o HEVC Reference encoder development in X’86 platform of multicores for International Demo. o Shannon HEVC encoder ramp up in TMSC6678 platform.

Technical Lead

Samsung•  June 2012 - December 2014•  Bangalore

• Lead the team of 4 engineers for the Research related activities happening in Video domain and came up with the paper on HEVC which is presented in IEEE conference in Taiwan (IS3C 2014). • Lead the team of 3 engineers for the DXVA interface driver development for HEVC decoder. • Design and development of HEVC encoder and decoder Firmware and enhancements for the Samsung MFC accelerator IP. • Design and development of VP9 10-bit decoder for upcoming Samsung IP. • Support and resolving critical customer issues from Qualcomm, Apple for H264, H263, MPEG4 codecs. • Development of Firmware enhancements for MPEG4 and H263 encoder • Projects involved in: o VP9 10-bit decoder development for upcoming Samsung IP o Optimization of firmware for HEVC decoder. o Microsoft DXVA compatible driver development for HEVC decoder in ARM 946, ARM 926 platform o HEVC 10-bit decoder development and support. o HEVC decoder and Firmware enhancements development and support. o MPEG4, H263 encoder firmware enhancements development and support. o H264 decoder firmware enhancements development and customer support.

Lead Engineer

Samsung•  July 2010 - June 2012•  Bangalore

• Design and development of AVS decoder Firmware and enhancements for the upcoming Samsung IP. • Design and development of H263 decoder Firmware and enhancements in ARM 946/ ARM 926 platforms. • Development of test case for automatic validation of Firmware enhancements. • Development of H264 decoder Firmware and enhancements in Open Risc platform. • Projects involved in: o AVS decoder Firmware and driver development for upcoming Samsung IP. o H264 and H263 decoder Firmware and driver development and customer support.

Senior Software Engineer

Tata Elxsi•  July 2008 - June 2010•  Trivandrum, Bangalore

• Test bench development (CAPL and XML scripts) for validation of Audio and Video telematics in Vehicle infotainment systems for Chrysler LLC, US. • Development of Fast Algorithm for Motion estimation (C, C++) in Reference H264 encoder. • Development of Fixed-point Rate control module (C, C++) in Reference H264 encoder. • Projects involved in: o Audio and Video test bench development for Chrysler LLC, US o H264 reference encoder development.

Software Engineer

Tata Elxsi•  June 2006 - July 2008•  Bangalore

• H264 decoder porting in PACT XPP platform of 4 processors. • Optimization of H264 decoder (C level and code level) in PACT XPP simulator. • Software integration of XPP modules (IQT, MC and Deblocking Filter) given by client PACT Germany with H264 decoder ported in PACT XPP simulator. • Assembly coding (PACT ASM) of time Intra prediction modes for H264 decoder for achieving performance of 20 FPS for 720P resolution in the PACT simulator. • Projects involved in: o H264 decoder implementation in PACT XPP ported into 4 processors.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

Electrical Engineering, B.Tech•  June 2002 - June 2006•  Percentage: 78.21

Graduated in 2006. Studied at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham https://www.amrita.edu/ . Affiliated to Anna University