Shantanu Kale
Fremont,CA
Summary
Accomplished Technical Marketing Engineer with over 2 decades of experience in software engineering and application engineering. Strong team player with ability to work cross functional teams. Ability to work in intense critical customer situations and quickly bring technical issues to resolution. Excellent verbal, written, & presentation communication skills.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer
Ambarella
Santa Clara, CA
04.2018 - Current
- Part of the Amarella's pre and post sales team playing a multi-hat role transitioning between technical marketing, application engineering, project management, and demo developer for showcasing Ambarella’s CV based reference designs
- Successfully facilitated the transition of over 20 customer projects from concept to mass production, achieving unit sales ranging from 250K to over 1 million
- Key responsibilities included: Leading discussions with customer management and engineering teams to refine requirements and select optimal system design choices
- Developing proof-of-concepts (POCs) to demonstrate features and mitigate execution risks
- Coordinating collaboration efforts among hardware vendors, ODMs, CV partners, and engineering teams to transition POC designs into final production
- Liaising with both external and internal engineering teams to address and resolve technical issues
- Conducted customer onboarding training sessions on Ambarella's Linux-based Software Development Kit and CNNGen toolkit for porting CV models to Ambarella's proprietary CVFlow HW engine
- Partnered with sales and marketing teams to develop trade show demonstrations showcasing advancements in Ambarella’s next-generation SoC, with recent demos emphasizing the capability of running transformer-based VLM models on the edge.
Senior Staff Systems Engineer
TDK / INVENSENSE
San Jose, CA
10.2013 - 04.2018
- Senior member of marketing development team & engineering liaison to clients for creating position solutions based on GPS and Inertial Sensors
- Worked closely with international customers and field engineers to evangelize, educate, and architect customer solutions for providing indoor/outdoor positions using InvenSense Positioning Library (IPL)
- Successfully integrated IPL onto Huawei’s flagship phones to enhance positions during poor GPS coverage
- Resolved customer-related platform issues on client sites with tight deadlines
- Designed & developed tools to analyze integrated system performance for offline playback
- Highlighted & demonstrated IPL feature capabilities and performance for customers by developing Android applications
- Developed Cloud IOT processing pipeline that generates user trajectories and analytics using point of sale data and IMU sensor logs pushed from phones using REST API calls
- Cloud servers invoked python scripts that invoked C library calls to execute navigation algorithms.
Senior Software Engineer
Harmonic Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
04.2006 - 10.2013
- Senior embedded software engineer responsible for developing broadcast quality video encoder platforms for H.264/MPEG2 audio and video compression standards
- Responsible for educating and interfacing with customers and field representatives
- Worked on all phases of product life cycle from product design, board bring-up, device firmware, hardware abstraction layers (HAL), application features, to technical issue resolution with chip vendors
- Successfully led software development for board bring up, device drivers, and diagnostics for system and manufacturing verification for Harmonic’s line of video and audio compression boards
- Development required coordination between multiple groups; HW, compression team, manufacturing, and device vendors
- Designed encoders cross-conversion feature to convert video and meta data between SD and HD content
- System Architecture was modified for frame accurate video scaling and meta-data conversion by synchronizing events between SW tasks and HW components to frame align video and metadata between video scaling transitions based on AFD codes
- Implemented audio compression framework on Ti6713 DSP to receive audio frames and send them to various compression engines for different codec types
- Design used E-DMA to transfer serialized input data to memory buffers that were accessed by concurrent software modules.
Senior Software Engineer
GDA Technologies
San Jose, CA
04.2004 - 04.2006
- Developed Dead Reckoning algorithm for SiRF's G.P.S
- Equipment
- Development required converting MATLAB code to C, writing SPI driver to obtain sensor data, validating algorithm correctness in simulation environment, and porting functionality onto ARM7 based embedded devices
- Code needed to be optimized for speed and memory efficiency
- Lead developer for Path One project
- Project required porting VxWorks to the newly developed Path One board, board bring up, development of diagnostics software for testing all hardware interfaces, and development of device drivers for various board devices.
Senior Software Engineer
XCarta Corporation
Menlo Park, CA
07.2002 - 06.2003
- Architected and developed a smart card POS (point of sale) terminal system for the creation of merchant/customer loyalty applications, using embedded Java, C and JNI
- POS system used PC running webserver and a USB connected to a smart-card reader
- Responsible for software lifecycle and release schedule, including testing cycle
- Maintained positive relationships with smart card reader vendors and obtained feedback from customers.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
University of California at Santa Cruz
05.2005
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Binghamton University
05.1998
Skills
- Technical Communication
- Solution capability presentations
- On-site client education & technical consulting
- Programming Languages: C, Python, C, Java
- Operating Systems: Linux, Embedded Systems
- Computer Vision and Embedded System expertise
Websites
Citizenship
US Citizen
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer
Ambarella
04.2018 - Current
Senior Staff Systems Engineer
TDK / INVENSENSE
10.2013 - 04.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Harmonic Inc.
04.2006 - 10.2013
Senior Software Engineer
GDA Technologies
04.2004 - 04.2006
Senior Software Engineer
XCarta Corporation
07.2002 - 06.2003
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
University of California at Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Binghamton University