Bharathi Siva Selvanathan

Licensing, API & Data Insights Product Manager in CTCT, in a Rotation @ Westminster, CO, USA

• Managing licensing as a product, supporting both Cat and Trimble, coordinating with global product teams
• Driven my team to create a concept to solve license management issues in stolen, failed and off-grid devices
• Contributed to the evolution of API and data strategy for Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT) by establishing the vision, objectives, and roadmap
• Got my team to prepare an API catalog for the Board of Directors to review the existing grade control system's capabilities
• Initiated a collaboration with Microsoft to use a private instance of Open AI for automating the modularization of CTCT’s grade control monolithic SW aiming to expedite platform transformation

Led a team of twelve, including system software developers and application specialists in the CTCT division, focusing on software and application development plus validation for various construction and earthmoving equipment.

• Managed full stack, Android, and web UI development for Earthworks applications using Agile methodology
• Conducted machine and bench development and system validation for both Earthworks and Roadworks projects
• Facilitated in-house lab benches for software development and validation
• Maintained regular interaction with global product owners, program managers, and delivery leads
• Developed and maintained Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems

Managed a team of twenty five engineers dealing with all the products at WABCO. The core responsibilities as a leader were to direct a team of Automobile and EE engineers who

On-vehicle

• Conducted vehicle calibration and system release validation for OptiDrive at WABCO Proving Ground, including system requirements gathering and function development
• Performed vehicle testing for system and component validation, fuel efficiency improvement, and comprehensive vehicle performance assessment
• Developed a prototype for an Autonomous Agricultural Tractor
• interfaced with customer teams from Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, and Volvo Eicher, along with WABCO's key account leadership and service teams
• Invented a concept for AMT shift timing reduction and fuel economy improvement and got an Indian patent granted (Ref: 687/CHE/2015) which was proved on Ashok Leyland’s BOSS vehicle at WABCO proving ground

Off-vehicle

• Plant model development, design, commissioning & maintenance of Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) systems
• Facilitation of Software-in-Loop testing (SIL) for project teams
• Test management by interaction with Function developers of project teams
• Automation of system testing
• Matlab based tool development for performing virtual Fuel Efficiency trials for AMT fitted vehicles which produced comparable results with on-road trials thus avoiding huge costs and time during product development
• Test hardware / infrastructure development for facilitating bench validation across all the teams in India

Application Leader

Software Integration Engineering for Industrial, Locomotive and Petro engines: Led a team of four in providing software support for Non-Tier 4 electronic commercial engines manufactured from Caterpillar globally. Dealt with several Current Production Issues (CPIs) that involved providing dynamic support and managing on-time delivery of projects as all these projects were the revenue generators for Caterpillar.

Technical Leader

Was a tech lead previously for a team of three engineers working on engine control software development for Tier 4 engines using MATLAB & Simulink: A m-script developed by me for generating test harness and simulation models automatically got integrated into MATLAB source code by Mathworks – saved several million dollars for Caterpillar MATLAB community

Deputed at UCAL KCAT R&D Centre (July 2004 - June 2006)

Controls & Instrumentation Engineer

Four Stroke Gasoline Engine Management System: Designed, developed, validated and calibrated the Hall Effect Throttle Position Sensor for an integrated throttle body ECU. Found a Patentable novel software solution to this design for electromagnetic interference by a solenoid used in the system

Electronic Carburetor: Done programming in C using CCS PCW compiler for PIC16F628 microcontroller