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Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), M.S (Computer Engineering), and M.S (Applied Mathematics)
(2003 - 2008)
(1986 - 1999)
2020
2023
Single Threaded Owner for building products and scaling up the Fire TV business for automotive and other verticals beyond Smart TVs, to deliver experiences our customers love and a P&L that we love.
2020 - 2023
Led product management for entire Alexa Automotive product portfolio - Alexa Custom Assistant, Alexa Built-In, Connectivity, Customer discovery & acquisition initiatives, Fintech platform, and Analytics platform.
2013
2013
Ancora (cross device enterprise platform), AuMBER (marketplace for mobile device farms), Bee (fintech wearables), Vibrado Technologies (athletics wearables).
2018 - 2020
2018 - 2020
Lead product definition, design and engineering of machine learning based digital cockpit experiences for L4 autonomous electric vehicles
2014 - 2018
2014 - 2018
• Created the automotive biometrics product family and new revenue stream, formulated product roadmap & scalable tech strategy, and drove the first design wins in the industry with top-tier automotive OEMs in Europe and Asia (Daimler, Toyota). • Incubated new product concepts for Synaptics - AR/VR, Cross device interactions, Gaze tracking HUD. Hands-on engineering, early stage evangelism & bizdev. Featured in CES 2015 - 2017.
2012 - 2013
2012 - 2013
Design and development of Cortana enabled wearable IoT product for women.
2009 - 2012
2009 - 2012
Invented the MirrorLink smartphone-automotive projection mode technology (precursor to Apple CarPlay & Android Auto). • MirrorLink seamlessly transforms smartphones into automotive application platforms and provides a safe and comfortable user experience through the In-Vehicle Infotainment system of the car while driving. • MirrorLink has now become the de-facto industry standard for platform agnostic smartphone-automotive interoperability and has been adopted by all major automotive manufacturers, Tier-I OEMs and mobile device manufacturers around the world. • Both Apple CarPlay and Google's Android Auto are derivatives of the key technology and UX fundamentals that MirrorLink introduced to the industry. • For more details about MirrorLink and its widespread industry adoption, please visit the Car Connectivity Consortium (http://www.mirrorlink.com).
2006 - 2008
2006 - 2008
• Co-founder of Pervasa Inc. which commercialized the Atlas Platform, the world's first SOA (service oriented architecture) based IoT platform. • Pioneered the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) and "Sensors & Actuators as a Service" where low-level hardware sensors and actuators are auto-magically converted into dynamically discoverable and programmable software services. • Responsible for overall software design and development of the Atlas Platform, which utilizes service oriented architecture (SOA) to allow automatic device self-integration. • Atlas Platform won the Best of Sensors Expo silver award in 2007.