Abid Ali Athankutty
Senior Staff Engineer @Samsung Electronics
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Staff Engineer @Samsung Electronics
Team Leader for team of 4 people in Cambridge working on firmware for Samsung\'s 802.11 range of chips. Provide technical leadership to the team. Bring up new members upto speed. Design and develop new features on the chip. Project Planning and Line Management. Hands on design and development of Wifi Firmware specifically in the software interfacing with hardware for configuration and fast data transfer. Troubleshooting of hard problems that involves close working with hardware experts.
EDUCATION
College of Engineering Trivandrum
B.Tech, Electrical And Electronics
University of Kerala
B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT ABID ALI ATHANKUTTY
A technology enthusiast and passionate engineer who has proven track record in developing highly efficient and portable world class embedded software that runs very close to hardware for predominantly low power devices like mobile phones in wireless communication technologies like WiFi. Understands the challenges involved in developing software that runs in power, cpu and memory constained platforms. Demonstrated capabilities in all section of software development lifecycle with more than 2 decades of industry experience delivering software that’s gone into millions of consumer devices. Proven expertise in various 802.11, Bluetooth and 3G protocols. Extremely good at kick starting projects that has very little information at the early phase of the requirements and specification development. Proven leadership qualities leading high performance teams with extensive experience in implementing and executing Scrum/Agile and waterfall development process with a focus on timely delivery without compromising quality.Thorough understanding of software version control with experience in tools like git/gerrit and also clearcase/perforce. Expert C programming and debugging skills in various ARM platforms and also scripting language skills like Perl that are used in testing protocol software. A team player and quick learner to adapt to any situation or technology and very good at working under pressure to delivery on strict deadlines. Having lead high performance teams developing world class software that’s delivered into millions of phones. Self motiviated individual and keen learner who has a deep industry knowledge in cutting edge technologies that will drive the future markets. Specialties: ARM Embedded firmware, Protocol software architecting, design & development. 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/be, 802.11 AMP, Bluetooth, UMTS NAS, VOIP protocols. Languages like C, SDL, UML, Perl. AXD, Eclipse, Visual Studio debuggers. Git/Gerrit, Clearcase, Perforce for version control. Platforms like Windows XP/Mobile, Nucleus, Linux.ARM Debuggers like Lauterbach.People Management Skills.Excellent interpersonal skills.Mentoring and team leading capabilities. Excellent team player.
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