Harsh Mehta

• Liaised with product hardware team and software development team to help break down requirements into specifications.
• Owned and prioritized product's firmware backlog by continuously evaluating business needs.
• Oversaw firmware deployment to alpha, beta and gamma test phases and rollout to manufacturing and production for multiple wireless lighting control products.
• Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
• Evaluated employee skills, performance and knowledge regularly, training and coaching individuals in improvement areas.
• Maintained team flexibility and embraced change to adapt with dynamically changing business needs.
• Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows.

• Leading team of 10 full time firmware engineers to develop firmware on ARM cortex based micro-controllers and SoC for wireless devices capable of running 802.15.4 and Bluetooth stacks using FreeRTOS.
• Developed and Shipped multiple sub-GHz wireless devices with multi-PCB, dual-micro designs with inter-micro communication and flash based non-volatile memories,
• Gathered requirements from product managers and business leaders, developed design specifications by working with manufacturing, operations and engineering teams, and implemented firmware for multiple products with help from cross-functional engineering teams.
• Supported firmware needs for manufacturing line, tool & test automation in production and factory.
• Drove end to end process of handling high impact field defects and customer issues from triaging reported problem to driving root cause resolution.

• Worked with international service centers in Middle East, UK and Singapore to drive uniformity and consistency in 3 different services provided across regions - technical support, customer service and field installations.
• Improved customer returns process by enabling international teams to send products for analysis. This allowed engineering teams to categorically investigate and fix root cause of issues that resulted in reduction of product return rate by 30%-50% year over year.
• Helped establish technical capabilities and trained staff at Service centers that enabled them to test and validate LED driver for compatibility with dimming control products.

• Worked on board bring up, evaluation of new chips, development of firmware/software architecture and porting of drivers and algorithms to new devices.
• Developed, upgraded and maintained protocol drivers like SPI, UART, I2C, Clock, Watchdog and in-house RTOS like scheduler based operating systems.
• Worked on hardware, interrupts, delays, clock-level issues and timing-analyses like RMA, EDF, round-robin etc.
• Developed application firmware for button and LED based user interaction designs for lighting control products.
• Developed TRIAC and FET based load driving software for dimming control of incandescent, CFL and LED lamps as well as next-generation LED, 0-10 and DALI drivers.
• Developed libraries for use in multiple application features such , logging, extraction, system programming, pairing, diagnostics etc.
• Built Continuous Integration and Automation abilities for new teams.

• Led Test Automation Framework development (Python + Robot Framework)
• Designed libraries like Serial, Ethernet and Database Serialization for Automation framework that helped cut down test time by 10x
• Conducted performance and scale testing for commercial system software that reduced failures in field by 20%
• Deployed popular open source tools and libraries to provide seamless and continuous integration testing for test teams enabling them to execute test plans 5x faster.

GPA: 3.55/4.00

• Teaching assistant for ESE department's 'Intro to C' and 'Embedded Systems' Courses.
• Relevant Coursework Completed: Real Time Embedded Systems, Advanced Networking Protocols and Distributed Network Systems.

GPA: 3.82/4.00

• Relevant Coursework Completed: Digital Logic Design, Computer Architecture, Digital Signal processing, Electronic Circuit Analysis & Design