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SHAMEEM RIZWAN

Fremont,CA, US

Summary

Embedded Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in designing and developing effective embedded software solutions. Specialized in Bluetooth Technology, Android, RTOS, Bare Metal and worked mainly on consumer electronics.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Software Engineer, Bluetooth

Rivian Automotive Inc.
03.2022 - Current

Working on R1 series vehicle infotainment Bluetooth BR/EDR on Android platform ECU and vehicle access system Bluetooth LE RTOS platform ECU.

  • Successfully delivered features on Android platform for car infotainment with Bluetooth classic profiles Call(HFP), Music(A2DP/AVRCP) and Phonebook access (PBAP), stack layer and HCI commands.
  • Contributed in quality improvement of Bluetooth user experience solving interoperability issues, bug fixes and analysis using Air sniffer and HCI snoop logs, connection and audio streaming improvements, audio hand-off scenarios.
  • Defining and implementing effective strategies for functionality, connection management and working closely with UX team for enhancing user experience.
  • Designed, developed and delivered Bluetooth low energy features for Vehicle Access System ECU as a solutions features like PseudoBonding, wakeup ECU on RSSI threshold leaky bucket implementation, CAN health and debug info frames, DID for UDS interface for factory updating.

Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

Plantronics Inc. (now HP Inc.)
07.2018 - 06.2021

Worked on products Poly CCX IP Phones series on Android platform and Plantronics Elara 60 (Phone station with Qi Charger) on Yocto platform.

  • Was part of Android Platform team working on Kernel, HAL, frameworks and applications. Contributed in resolving and stabilizing platform issues related to touch screen, Bluetooth, audio, core dump crash analysis.
  • Contributed in stabilizing and improving overall Android Bluetooth functionality.
  • Designed and developed Bluetooth classic profiles support for HFP, A2DP/AVRCP, PBAP, custom profiles over BlueZ stack interface on YOCTO platform.
  • Desined and developed feature BLE 'Hoteling' for seamless connection/pairing as solution for resolving long list of paired devices.
  • Resolved and completed PTS certifications of BR/EDR and BLE Bluetooth version 5.0.

Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

Sri Veda Emsys Solutions
05.2007 - 09.2009

Principal Engineer, SW

Harman International
10.2017 - 01.2018

Lead Engineer

Borqs Software Solutions
09.2012 - 01.2014

Engineer II

Qualcomm Inc.
01.2018 - 07.2018

Sr. Technical Leader

Aricent Technologies
01.2014 - 10.2017

Developed and delivered Bluetooth features for a Sony BRAVIA 2015 Android Smart TV.

  • Feature architecture, designed and developed feature – “SCO over HCI” routing SCO packets, Wide Band Speech SCO audio support.
  • Developed and maintained feature like 3DS profile for 3D TV, Voice over LE HOGP, Bluetooth LE remote and Bug Fixing related to stacks and profiles.
  • Worked on layers like Bluetooth driver, Bluez kernel transport layer, BlueAngel (MediaTek) Bluetooth stack and profile, Audio HAL and Android frameworks.
  • Contributed as feature architect, co-work in various design and development of Bluetooth features, vendor and customer interactions.
  • Worked in Taiwan for initial 3 months, traveled to multiple locations in China for Project related work mainly for multiple team co-work.

Sr. Software Engineer

Motorola Mobility
10.2009 - 08.2012

Android Wearable Smart Watch MotoACTV.

  • Developed various Android Home screens UI, Android Application Weight Management which involved UI, database, Services, AIDL.
  • Designed and developed Bluetooth HFP profile as HF role, Calling App and SPP connection for message notifications on Watch.
  • Implementated and maintenaned Framework interface for ANT+ sensors maintaining different profiles and Bluetooth Low Energy device with Heart Rate Monitor profile which provides data to applications related to different Workouts.
  • Handled all Bluetooth(BR/EDR and BLE) related issues, adding features and bug fixes in stack and frameworks.
  • Contributed in initial Bluetooth factory board bring up and developed factory test cases interface to validate Hardware.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science -

Visvesvaraya Technology University
Belgaum, Karnataka
07.2006

Skills

  • C/C
  • Bluetooth BR/EDR and Low Energy
  • Android
  • RTOS
  • Embedded system programming
  • Core JAVA
  • Python and Shell scripting
  • Embedded LINUX (YOCTO)
  • ARM and other microcontrollers
  • Automotive
  • Bare Metal
  • Communication protocols like SPI/UART,
  • POSIX libraries, Data structures, Multithreading, Software Development Standards, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Algorithm implementation

Highlights:

  • End-to-end product development processes, requirement specification and feasibility studies, initial platform bring up, proof of concept development, vendor technical and cross-functional team interaction, verification and validation, war room issues debug sessions, early adopters bug fixing, dogfooding quality cycles
  • Agile processes with sprint and Kanban board flow, JIRA, Gitlab, Gerrit, Confluence
  • Worked on highly time-critical projects
  • Comprehending given current platform and carving out new feature architecture solution being one of key skill sets

Timeline

Sr. Software Engineer, Bluetooth

Rivian Automotive Inc.
03.2022 - Current

Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

Plantronics Inc. (now HP Inc.)
07.2018 - 06.2021

Engineer II

Qualcomm Inc.
01.2018 - 07.2018

Principal Engineer, SW

Harman International
10.2017 - 01.2018

Sr. Technical Leader

Aricent Technologies
01.2014 - 10.2017

Lead Engineer

Borqs Software Solutions
09.2012 - 01.2014

Sr. Software Engineer

Motorola Mobility
10.2009 - 08.2012

Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

Sri Veda Emsys Solutions
05.2007 - 09.2009

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science -

Visvesvaraya Technology University
SHAMEEM RIZWAN