SURYA SATYAVOLU
Novato,CA
Summary
Experienced and entrepreneurial systems software engineer with strong leadership and execution skills. 23+ years of experience in the industry in bigger companies as well as startups. Entrepreneurial can-do attitude. Started companies, built teams and championing HEART (High-speed Electric Automated Road Transport) which is the future of 21st century transportation.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder and CEO
Sirab Technologies Inc
01.2015 - Current
- Company founded with a vision to develop enabling technologies for automated driving to address pain points like traffic congestion and safety through automated road transport with privatized lanes. Focus on optimizing lane capacity utilization and operational efficiency improvements through platooning and automated lane keeping.
- Developed an innovative concept for wireless guidance and control for automated driving applications
- Designed and developed Radar-based guidance and hard-real time control using 802.11 wireless
- Participating in SAE standards development for V2V and V2I safety communications using DSRC
- Championing Automated Electric Road Transportation TRIP Forum at TSDSI for developing a reference architecture and white paper
- Several Awards include TIE-50 finalist, SVIEF-STAR, MoU with Andhra Pradesh State Government, several SBIR proposals.
- LOI for an Airport People Mover from DIAL based on proposal submitted through competitive bidding.
Lead Software Engineer
L3Harris
07.2023 - 10.2023
- Technical leadership and development of software for Gimbal stabilized EOIR imaging systems
- Worked on fixing issues on DSP code for several sensors, motor controllers and QNX based system controllers.
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Metawave
10.2022 - 07.2023
- Developing innovative mmwave radar technology for automotive and aerial applications
- Designed, implemented and optimized radar signal processing pipeline including Data Acquisition, Range, Doppler FFT, CFAR, Peak Detection and Super Resolution AOA algorithms in quick time on NVIDIA Jetson - ARM/GPU SoC
- Optimized and implemented using cuBlas and cuFFT as well as implemented custom kernels to obtain substantial performance gains
- Worked on test software for beam forming IC
- Design and Implemented RTP based real-time streaming of Radar data including raw ADC data, RDMs and CFAR detection list between GPU and Host PC.
- Improved pipeline processing to be within 50ms frame processing time for FMCW radar signal processing.
Embedded Architect(consultant)
John Deere
01.2022 - 09.2022
- Multi-core Operating System (RTXC) extensions implementation on 4 core ARM processor for GNSS receiver
- Architected and implemented Bound Multi-core Processing architecture with shared memory messaging for Inter core synchronization and message passing
Software Consultant
Cablelabs
03.2021 - 02.2022
- Architecture, design and implementation of Security extensions to enable carrier managed wifi
- EAP-TTLS extensions for RADIUS authentication of client-side devices
- Developed PSK lookup server and client and hostapd extensions to 802.11 security WPA handshake to support multiple PSKs for shared Wifi
- Architecture, implementation and testing based on customer requirements.
Member Technical Staff/Senior Software Engineer
Wind River Systems
01.2010 - 01.2015
- Embedded Software development for safety and security critical platforms for avionics and defense customers
- Design, development and certification of multi-core safety and security critical hypervisors, partitioning operating systems and separation kernels
- Multi-core SMP and AMP support, MMU virtualization, IO virtualization, device drivers on PowerPC platforms
- Low level performance critical code optimization in C and Assembly
- Provide technical leadership in processor architectures and architecture dependent code.
- Secured patents and participated in standardization of POSIX API in FACE consortium.
Senior Software Engineer (consultant)
Carlson Wireless
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Develop FreeBSD drivers and applications for 802.11 based TDM microwave long haul radio
- Developed driver IOCTLs interfacing with user-land device management application.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering, Communications and DSP
Clemson University
Clemson, SC12.2000
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras, India06.1998
Skills
- VxWorks (RTOS), MILS (Hypervisor), Linux, FreeBSD, OSE(RTOS), Quadros RTXC, On-Time RTOS-32, QNX
- Git, StarTeam, Informan, Bugzilla, Source Integrity, PVCS, Perforce, Clearcase, Subversion, TFS
- C/C, PowerPC(Assembler), ARM(Assembler), Rhapsody(OOD), Rational Rose RT, UML, Perl, Tcl, Bash(shell scripts), Python, XML, CUSA
- ARM, PowerPC, X86, DSP, GPU, CUDA, CuDNN
Accomplishments
- National Talent Search Scholar, Awarded by NCERT, New Delhi, India
- Attained a rank of 219 out of more than 100,000 candidates in IIT-JEE
Patents
- Automated driving system and method for road vehicles 10732636
- Methods and systems of algorithmically controlling automotive functions 10196069
- Method and system for enforcing kernel mode access protection 10152331
- Radar-based guidance and wireless control for automated vehicle platooning and lane keeping on an automated highway system 20190243378 (Application)
Professional Development
- ARM926EJ System Design and Tools, Training by ARM Ltd
- Rhapsody Design Training by I-Logix
- Brainbench certified in C and embedded systems
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
L3Harris
07.2023 - 10.2023
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Metawave
10.2022 - 07.2023
Embedded Architect(consultant)
John Deere
01.2022 - 09.2022
Software Consultant
Cablelabs
03.2021 - 02.2022
Founder and CEO
Sirab Technologies Inc
01.2015 - Current
Member Technical Staff/Senior Software Engineer
Wind River Systems
01.2010 - 01.2015
Senior Software Engineer (consultant)
Carlson Wireless
01.2009 - 01.2010
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering, Communications and DSP
Clemson University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
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