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Madhubabu Kasse

Greater Los Angeles Area,USA

Summary

Accomplished leader in Android Automotive Infotainment, Digital Cockpit,Android Mobile, and Android TV projects.
Expertise in handling complete product life cycle from bring up to production of Fisker Ocean Android Infotainment EV Car Project and other top automotive brands like General Motors,Subaru etc.
Extensive work experience in design and development of solutions for Automotive Android Audio based head units in connected cars/Infotainment.
Extensive work experience in Android Audio Frame works,Audio HAL,Audio Kernel drivers on Android 12,11,Android Q, P, N and Android M.
Proficiency in the Android Display and Graphics Frameworks.
10 years plus experience on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
Hands on work experience in developing Android modules using Kotlin and MVVM architecture.
Hands on work experience in porting and integration of speech and audio codecs.
Good knowledge on common communications protocols (e.g. SPI, UART, I2C, USB)
Hands on work experience in Qualcomm Board Audio Bring-up activities including voice-call bring-up, audio playback bring-up, audio recording bring-up, BT-headset / Stereo-headset on Qualcomm Smartphone chipsets.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Android Infotainment Lead

Fisker Group Inc
01.2022 - Current
  • Managed a diverse team of 15 engineers for the Fisker Ocean SUV and Fisker Alaska Truck Android Infotainment projects, fostering global collaboration across USA, Europe, and India.
  • Designed and developed Android modules for Fisker EV infotainment, utilizing Kotlin and MVVM architecture.
  • Developed backend IVI services for the Audio, Alexa, Navigation and Connectivity modules
  • Utilized Kotlin Coroutines for efficient asynchronous programming handling all the updates from the different CAN signals in vehicle, simplifying code for concurrency
    and parallelism.
  • Established and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, suppliers, and partners
  • Conducted code reviews, performance evaluations, and mentoring sessions to promote a culture of ongoing improvement and innovation.

Principal Engineer, Android Audio Lead

Harman(Samsung Company)
08.2017 - 01.2022
  • Led a global team of 10+ Engineers in USA, China, and India for the Android Audio Connected Car project.
  • Successfully managed multiple Android projects for high-profile clients including General Motors and Subaru, ensuring seamless execution from Android P to Q, N, and M versions.
  • Led Android Audio Harman HAL team to add features and maintain HAL versions for Android 12, 11, Q, Pie, N, and M.
  • Debugged and fixed bugs on android platforms such as Audio HAL, Audio Flinger, ALSA and Tiny ALSA, Audio Kernel drivers, and Audio DSP for Android's Connected Car Infotainment system.

Staff Engineer, Android Audio Lead

Le Eco Inc.
04.2016 - 07.2017
  • Led the Android Audio team and provided support for multiple features on TV platform.
  • Developed a compressed audio recording kernel driver that supported HAL/framework with Tiny ALSA framework.

Lead Engineer

Qualcomm Inc.
04.2006 - 03.2016
  • Integrated various voice codecs and voice pre and post processing features on Qualcomm Mobile Platform for voice-call functionalities
  • Performed Qualcomm Board Audio Bring-up activities such as voice-call, audio playback, and audio recording.
  • Integrated android audio HAL on Qualcomm chipsets and added various features on Audio HAL and Audio kernel.
  • Triaged and resolved Android Display HAL issues.
  • Triaged system level issues such as crashes, exceptions, page-faults, resets, memory issues, watchdog timeouts and other Core-BSP problems relating to booting, LPASS, Multimedia, storage and shared memory in the Core BSP team.

Senior Software Engineer

Danlaw Technologies India Ltd.
02.2004 - 04.2006
  • Ported, integrated and tested G.729 Aplus codec and VoIP modules such as VAD/CNG, CED/CNG, Tone Generation on ADSP BF53x Blackfin processor.

Education

M. Tech - Electronics Engg

IIT-BHU
Varanasi,India
12.2003

B.E - Electronics and Communications Engg

Andhra University
Visakhapatnam,India
04.2001

Skills

  • Android,Linux,QNX,RTOS,REX,Windows
  • C,C,Kotlin,Java,Python,Perl
  • Assembly (Blackfin, ADSP218x, ARM Processors)
  • Android Studio
  • Adb,Git,Gerrit,Android SDK,
  • Jenkins
  • CANoe,Vehilce Spy,PCAN
  • A2B bus Analyzer
  • Oscilloscope
  • Trace32,JTAG
  • Platform Builder
  • QXDM,QPST
  • Systrace,Ftrace
  • JIRA,PRISM,Elvis,CRMDB,Code Collaborator

Personal Information

Visa Status: I-140 approved, H1B

Timeline

Android Infotainment Lead

Fisker Group Inc
01.2022 - Current

Principal Engineer, Android Audio Lead

Harman(Samsung Company)
08.2017 - 01.2022

Staff Engineer, Android Audio Lead

Le Eco Inc.
04.2016 - 07.2017

Lead Engineer

Qualcomm Inc.
04.2006 - 03.2016

Senior Software Engineer

Danlaw Technologies India Ltd.
02.2004 - 04.2006

M. Tech - Electronics Engg

IIT-BHU

B.E - Electronics and Communications Engg

Andhra University
Madhubabu Kasse