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Soft Skills

• Market research
• Project Estimation
• Proposal submission
• Client handling
• Risk Analysis
• Project Budgeting
• Requirement gathering & analysis
• Architecture Design
• Simulations
• Design optimization
• Module Integration
• Documentation
• Troubleshooting
• Technical Support
• Interpersonal Communication
• Deep thinking
• Logical & Analytic Approach

Technical Skills

• Board Bring Up/Debugging
• Linux kernel compilation, optimization & booting sequence
• Signal and interrupt handling,
• Designing & Optimization of Firmware/Software architecture for different embedded Products
• OS less Firmware Applications Development
• Device driver development
• Board Support Package Porting
• Algorithm development
• Designing Complex data structures
• Developing Graphics/Gesture library
• Uboot configuration
• File-systems (UBI-FS/JFFS2/YAFFS2)
• Linux startup sequencing (buildroot/ArchLinux)

Technology Stack

• Interfaces & Peripherals: LCD, Timers, DDR 2/3, NAND/NOR Flash memory, Motor, Sensors, FPGA, EEPROM, PMIC, PHY, OLED

• Network Protocols: TCP, UDP, SNTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, RADIUS, WirelessHART, cctalk, SMS (GSM3.40), IPSec VPN, PPPoE

• Bus Protocols: SPI, I2C, USB, RS232, MODBUS, CAN, ADC, DAC, DMA, PWM, 1-Wire, GPIO, Zigbee, Bluetooth, NMEA0183, NMEA2k, RFID protocols

• Bluetooth: BT stack, BT Air trace tools, HFP, A2DP, SPP, AVRCP

• Peripheral devices: RTC, Printer, GPS, Camera, Light Sensor, LCD Back light, EEPROM, Temperature Sensor, Light Sensor, Stepper motor, Graphical & alphanumeric LCD, MMC/SD, 3G/GSM/GPRS module

• Hardware Platforms: PIC16/18/24/32, MSP430, Atmel AVR, TI TM4C123, TI OMAP 3530, Intel Quark, Davinci, i.MX6 Solo, ESP8266 NodeMCU, STM32F103, Samsung S3C2412, Cirrus EP9301, Austria Microsystem AS3527, VIA processor

• Programming Languages: C, C++, Assembly, Bash Shell, Python, LaTeX, MATLAB, Octave, Fox Pro

• Linux Programming: Multithreaded programming, IPC, TCP/IP sockets, Makefile, Message Queues, Shared Memory, Mutex, Semaphores, Kernel threads, POSIX threads, System Calls, Event driven mechanisms: event manager daemon, device manager daemon, control manager daemon

• Libraries/Frameworks: Zigbee TI Zstack, OpenCV, OpenWRT, Bluez Stack

• OS: uCOS, FreeRTOS, Linux, Windows, QNX, WindRiver, ThreadX, eCos

• Development Tools: Eclipse, IAR Workbench, MPLab, Hitech C, Keil uVision, QT, Visual studio, CCD, ORCAD P-Spice, Eagle Layout Editor, Verdi, nWave, Atmel Studio

• Debugging Tools: Trace32, gdb, QXDM, Lauterbach, XCode

• USB Debug Tools: LeCroy USB Protocol Analyzer, MQP PET, USBLyzer, USBCV

• Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, Prism, Visual Intercept, FIDO

• Version Control System: svn, cvs, git, Perforce P4V

• Software Engineering Methods: SCRUM, ISO9001, Software V-Model

• Code Review Tools: Code collaborator

• Static Code Analyzers: Klocwork, Coverity

• Code Browsers: Source Insight, Slick Edit

Verticals

• Industrial Product & Automation
• Security and surveillance
• Medical equipment
• Consumer Electronics
• Instrumentation & Retail solutions

Technical Requirements

• Expert knowledge and hands-on with writing business logic on embedded environment in C, C++, Python using test-driven methodology on RTOS and non-RTOS platforms.
• Exhibit problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities. Should be system-level thinker.
• Able to learn and apply new state-of-the-art tools and techniques and thereby showing experience in quick prototyping methods followed by structured implementation.