Jayakrishna Lekkala
University Park,PA
Summary
Principal Engineer with Active Secret Clearance.
Extensive experience in Systems Design and Technical Leadership at Qualcomm, Nokia, Amazon.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Research Engineer IV
Penn State University
09.2023 - Current
- Working on Communications and Information, Navigation division of Applied Research Laboratory Penn State.
- Design and Deliver various projects for Department of Defense. Work is Government classified.
Software Engineer
Amazon
12.2021 - 08.2023
- Worked in Devices OS org and Amazon Retail
- At Amazon Retail enabled exports from India feature on the Amazon.in website
- At Amazon Devices developed stress test framework, and third-party access to OS internals using React Native
- Developed Sensor framework, was in charge of Crash analysis and Resolution of issues reported from field Alexa devices.
Startup Founder
Self Employed (Lendi Pvt Ltd)
05.2013 - 11.2021
- Developed prototype efficient Solar charge controller and efficient usage of Solar Electricity Using Arduino
- Circuit switches to switch to charge lower voltage batteries when solar output is lower
- Worked on multiple Great projects, From AI, Google play Android Apps, Smart home Smart Farm projects
- Developed Pluggable Generic Clean API to Interact with Android Client API and also Cloud Connectivity
- Designed Developed CV AI prototypes using NVIDIA Jetson boards.
Senior Software Engineer
Nokia
10.2010 - 07.2012
- Was in charge of tracking and driving to resolution all issues related to Adobe and Browser software
- OS middleware API - enabling Apps to access Data from core OS
- Worked in Agile / Scrum Environment development environment
- Ported Adobe C-code From Nokia Maemo Environment to Nokia Meego Linux Operating system, which involved extensive familiarity with C code and Operating systems
- Git release management
- Web kit Based Nokia browser Development and maintenance in C++
- Implemented Select, Copy feature in Web kit browser.
Senior Software Engineer
Qualcomm
06.2001 - 10.2010
- Designed and developed Wireless Data software modules for WiMAX and Ultra Mobile Broadband technologies
- Lead Development team in Implementation of 3GPP Multiplexer protocol, 3gpp mux is driver level software which allows multiple sessions over a single asynchronous serial device
- Designed and implemented CPU based data flow control mechanism for General access network (GAN) technology
- Re-architected Qualcomm Mobile Interface software to de-couple Software release cycles
- Lead development of High Availability, High volume, Network management software (NMC) for GlobalTracs (GT: Construction equipment tracking system) and TrailerTracs (T2: Un-tethered Trailer tracking system) products
- Team through challenging projects with tight schedules, while contributing significantly to design and development, and successful deployment to production
- Designed XML Schemas for defining parameter definitions to manage GT/T2 parameters (mobile unit configuration data) in a flexible manner between NMC software releases
- Designed and developed extensible framework for Over the Air upgrading Mobile units.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science (MS) -
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
05.2001
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Driving large scale projects to Completion
- C
- C
- JAVA
- SQL
- Python
- UNIX
- Linux
- OpenVMS
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- JTAG
- Git
Qualifications Summary
- Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead with Experience in analysis, design and implementation of High availability, High volume and Fault Tolerant, Qualcomm Network Management Centre Satellite and Terrestrial comms Server software, Monitoring Semi Trucks and High Value, mission critical Connected IoT devices mounted on Caterpillars and John Deere’s.
- Successfully Lead Technical Teams in Delivery of High-quality Software for Mission critical, Large Scale Software Development and Deployment.
- Software Design and Development Experience in ARM, RTOS environment using C, C++ for Qualcomm Modem, experience in Multiple Wireless Protocols (UMB, CDMA, WiMAX, GAN).
- Implemented 3GPP Multiplexer Protocol with Power save feature, used by the likes of Apple, Samsung.
- Lead Telephone Home service over SS7 network, used to wake up Amazon Kindle devices in the field.
- Experience working on Mobile Linux platform developing Web Browser. (Nokia Meego)
- Design and Development experience in Multiple Custom Networking protocols over UDP
- Designed and Delivered Multiple Innovative Android Apps on Google Play Store.
- Publications: IEEE Machine Learning, Data Journal https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1245290
- Google Scholar Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wxx5WOUAAAAJ&hl=en
Timeline
Research Engineer IV
Penn State University
09.2023 - Current
Software Engineer
Amazon
12.2021 - 08.2023
Startup Founder
Self Employed (Lendi Pvt Ltd)
05.2013 - 11.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Nokia
10.2010 - 07.2012
Senior Software Engineer
Qualcomm
06.2001 - 10.2010
Master of Science in Computer Science (MS) -
University of Louisiana, Lafayette