PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Timeline

SANDHYA GOLLA

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC
Leander,TX
21
years of professional experience
  • Embedded system development engineer with 20 years of experience designing, developing and bringing to life Android-based products, including FireTV devices, Automotive Infotainment systems and Television systems.
  • Owns the full development lifecycle: software design, programming, code review, unit testing, debugging and defect resolution.
  • Experienced in using Amazon AI tools to generate skills, to automate triaging of issues, implementation, unit testing , with a mandatory review of results and continuous feedback to mature the skill.
  • Dependable, well-organized team member who manages competing priorities effectively and readily takes on added responsibility to meet team goals.

Work History

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER II

4 Years 1 Month
AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC | 09.2022 - Current
  • Planned work items annually to enhance stability goals and improve features impacting stability and crash metrics.
  • Analyzed top system issues and crashes, developing solutions or mitigation plans to enhance customer experience.
  • Contributed to the design and implementation of new features or solutions.
  • Present Stability progress in Weekly Leadership review.
  • Align with cross-functional teams on stability issues and involve in technical deep-dives.

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

5 Years
Harman International India Pvt Ltd | 09.2016 - 09.2021
  • Planned features for program increment and sprint, ensuring timely delivery.
  • Enhanced Over the Air and USB Software Update feature
  • Enhanced Rear View Camera and Car Animations feature.
  • Optimized time to Car Infotainment Home Screen, in Android.
  • Designed HIDL and implemented Android HAL components.
  • Responded to technical concerns, devising effective solutions to maintain project momentum.
  • Trained freshers and new team members in Software Update Domain and engineering processes.

SENIOR TECHNICAL LEAD

4 Years 3 Months
TPVision India Pvt Ltd | 05.2012 - 08.2016
  • Contributed to new feature additions, requirement clarification, design, implementation, and code reviews.
  • Responsible for defining interfaces required from SOC supplier for usage by platform team to realize TV features.
  • Implemented support for dual tuner and UHD functionality in TVPlayer to enhance user experience.
  • Enhanced Digital Broadcast Player and developed Timeshift Recording and Personal Video Recording features for television systems.
  • Designed and implemented Startup Preset Selection and selection during wakeup from standby, in TV.

TECHNICAL LEAD

2 Years 4 Months
Trident Microsystems India Pvt Ltd | 12.2009 - 04.2012
  • Designed and implemented GStreamer plugin for JPEG decoder, enhancing multimedia processing capabilities.
  • Designed and Implemented Take Away Display Feature, to take Digital Channel played on TV to handheld device.
  • MHP: Designed and implemented decoding of Drip Frames from Digitally Broadcasted stream.
  • Added support for JPEG thumbnail, enabling faster image retrieval in applications.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

3 Years 1 Month
NXP Semiconductors India Pvt Ltd | 10.2006 - 11.2009
  • Ported H264 encoder from tm3270 to tm5250, enhancing compatibility with newer systems.
  • Implemented TSSA wrapper for H264 encoder, improving integration with streaming architecture.
  • Ported H264 encoder from processor tm3270 to tm5250.
  • Developed application to demonstrate to customers, capabilities of all components of security based camera application.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

1 Year 4 Months
Philips Semiconductors India Pvt Ltd | 05.2005 - 09.2006
  • Gained hands-on experience developing JPEG and Motion JPEG decoders.
  • Added feature: YUV Planar to Semiplanar and Semiplanar to Planar format conversion.
  • Implemented on the fly scaling and rotation for progressive images

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Technological University | India | 05-2005

Skills

Operating Systems : Android
RTOS
Linux
Programming languages : C
C++
Java
Software Framework : Android Architecture
GTest
Environment : Android AOSP
Android SDK.
JNI programming
Video encoding/decoding
Platform : MediaTek
Samsung's Exynos Auto v9
MIPS
QNX
Marvell
Trimedia
Debugging Tools : ADB
glogg
JTAG
TeraTerm
PeakCAN
logcat
Process Tools : Enterprise Architect
GIT
Gerrit
JIRA
Agile scrum environments

Accomplishments

  • Got recognition from manager on handling software development alongwith with a vision for team goal and co-ordinating with team and cross-functional teams to reach the target.
  • Resolved and documented critical problem, due to security restrictions in Android R, which was applauded by Management.
  • Supervised team of 8 members, in development of System Software features.
  • Appreciated for detailing of issues and progress made, during daily updates.
  • Recognized for 'First Time Right' approach, while demonstrating MHP, Dual Tuner and UHD feature, with TVPlayer.

Timeline

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER II

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC
09.2022 - CurrentRead More

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

Harman International India Pvt Ltd
09.2016 - 09.2021Read More

SENIOR TECHNICAL LEAD

TPVision India Pvt Ltd
05.2012 - 08.2016Read More

TECHNICAL LEAD

Trident Microsystems India Pvt Ltd
12.2009 - 04.2012Read More

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

NXP Semiconductors India Pvt Ltd
10.2006 - 11.2009Read More

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Philips Semiconductors India Pvt Ltd
05.2005 - 09.2006Read More

Jawaharlal Technological University

Bachelor of Science from Electronics And Communications Engineering
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SANDHYA GOLLA