Chandan K.

About Chandan K.

Highly accomplished Lead Connectivity & Network Engineer with 17+ years of industry experience in architecting and delivering robust solutions across embedded systems, wireless technologies, and networking infrastructures. Demonstrated leadership in driving innovation, optimizing connectivity frameworks, and enabling seamless integration across diverse platforms including automotive, IoT, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.Expert in wireless communication protocols embedded firmware development, and network stack optimizations, with a strong track record of leading global teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact products. Passionate about building scalable, secure, and future-ready connectivity solutions.Day to day activities includes but not limited to the following - Analyzing software project requirements, perform feasibility studies, architectural breakdowns, and participation in breaking down with features and stories with estimating efforts for complete solutions.Interact with the customer during the entire project cycle to understand requirements, regularly discuss project status, and review deliverables.Hold technical responsibility for embedded software, firmware, and networking applications that are part of a large/complex system or single complete system. Acting as a subject matter expert for contemporary data and control plane network designs, and solutions which consolidate data networks, network function virtualization, automation and orchestration, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Intelligence, and predictive and self-learning modeling.Participating in technical reviews with multiple development teams, mentoring and guiding them, and demonstrating PoCs and feasibility of design.Maintaining a solid understanding of the industry’s standards, technology architectures, best practices, platforms, integration strategies, methodologies, design and modeling tools, development and deployment utilities, testing tools and trends.Maintaining a working knowledge of data protocols, system architectures, industry, and OEM standards.Utilizing experience not limited to: Embedded software programming, Operating system concepts, Linux device drivers, system and network design and development, protocols and topological architectures, Multi-threading, TCP/IP, IP addressing, Routing Protocols, QOS, routers and switches, WiFi controllers (STA, AP and P2P modes), Virtualization, Automation and Orchestration, C/C++, Java, Python, Shell scripting.

Experience

1. Lead Connectivity Network Engineer

   Capgemini Engineering

   Jan 2017 — Present · Irvine, CA, US

   Design and development of software solutions for faster infotainment systems access using Wi-Fi and internet connectivity with secure and scalable options, enforcing privacy policies and encouraging seamless real-time data access within the compliance restrictions for aircrafts with satellite and/or ground network connectivity.Design and development of features for optical driver support and platform software solutions used in switches and routers.Architected, designed, and helped develop Integrated Gateways for line sensors in the field with an ability to liaison endpoints traffic to analytics system and capabilities like highly availability and fault tolerant, secure and auto-scale manageable per client’s order in the utility industrial applications. More features include protocol data concentrators for SCADA, microservices and cloud infrastructures, data plane, telemetry, and critical resource management, etc. Designed and Developed IoT networking framework for router/gateway with features including support for edge (ethernet/wireless) as well as wan modes.Developed applications and interfaces interacting with industry partners to cater, guide and enable different smart city solutions. Defining protocols and developing north/south bound APIs to be used by partner’s as well as back-office applications and services.Won “design excellence” award in Hackathon IV held by Aricent for its group globally. My design and development area included AI/ML and IoT.

Education

• Jawaharlal Institute Of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• CDAC, Hyd

  DESD, Embedded Systems

  2009 — 2009

Skills

• 802.11a
• Arm
• Sockets
• Html5
• Gnu Make
• Wifi-Direct
• Rtos
• 802.11ac
• Etsi
• Perl
• Xml
• C++
• Omnipeek
• Miracast
• Kernel Debugging
• Rtcp
• Device Drivers
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Multithreading
• System Automation
• Android
• Iot
• Unix
• V2v
• 802.11g
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• 802.11p
• Wlan
• Wireless
• Debugging
• Json
• Wireless Technologies
• Linux Tools
• Java
• Embedded Linux
• Rtsp
• 802.11b
• Operating Systems
• P2p