Bharath Kumar Vuppala

About Bharath Kumar Vuppala

Power Electronics professional with 12+ years of core experience in end to end product development(Conception, Design, Development, Test & Validation(Reliability & UL certification), Transfer to Production & Launch ).TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:• Project leadership (New Product & New Technology Development) & Team Leading (Experience in Mentoring the Fellow Engineers).• Hands on Experience in Developing High Volume IEC/UL certified products.• Design Power Electronics hardware & Embedded Firmware for power converters (115Vac, 230Vac & 460Vac, 1A to 20A) for electric machines (single phase, 2-Phase, three phase) used in Blowers, Fans, Pumps & Compressors.• Experience in design of Analog & Digital signal conditioning circuits like Op-Amp based Motor current & voltage measurements, UART, RS232/RS485 based serial communications and NFC.• Experience designing SMPS (buck and fly back configurations), Power factor correction circuits(PFC) • Good Experience in PCB Design upto 4 Layers. • Hands on experience working on Sensor less FOC of PMSM and V/F control of Induction Motor. • Worked on 32bit/16bit ST, Microchip, Renesas & TI ARM & Proprietary Architectures. • Experience working on motor control peripherals (ADC, PWM timers, DAC) & communication peripherals (UART, I2C, SPI).• Ability to understand debug and test Legacy Motor Control Firmware, Develop & Integrate Firmware for new requirements, Modifying existing IEC60730 & UL19980 Class B Certified firmware\'s to suit the Application\\Requirements. • Hands on experience working on simulation tools such as MATLAB, PLECS & LT SPICE. • Experience with evaluating reliability of electronic converter/circuits using Reliasoft.• Train Run Simulations of Rolling Stock Application, System Level Simulation of Traction Converter, IGBT module.• Power loss & TJ calculations of Power Devices, Harmonic Analysis, and GUI development. • Well versed with Stage Gate NPD Processes (DP0 to DP4).• Good experience in testing with Dynamometers, Pumps, Blowers, HIPOT, EMI/EMC testing, surge test and burn-in test for Reliability of Electronics.• Interface with circuit board contract electronic manufacturers (CEM) during project design phase and manufacturing phase, optimizing designs for manufacturability and reliability.• Product Quality improvement through Field Failure Analysis & Production failure Analysis. • Familiarity with Six Sigma tools like DFMEA & FRACAS.

Experience

1. Principal Hardware Architect

   AIIR Intelligent HVAC

   Jun 2024 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Responsible for Overseeing end to end product life cycle ( Conceptualizing, Architecting, design, development, prototype, test & validation & manufacturing ) of all the power electronics (hardware & embedded firmware) & control electronics hardware that goes into the world\'s first AI powered Intelligent heat pump.

Education

• BVRIT , Affiliated to JNTU-HYD

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Simulink
• Railway Systems
• Digital Signal Processors
• Matlab
• Power Electronics
• Electronics
• Electrical Engineering
• Microsoft Office
• Engineering
• Gui Development
• R&D
• C
• Dsp Controllers
• Simulations
• Solar Power