Divya Jambu Karthikeyan

About Divya Jambu Karthikeyan

6.5 years as Embedded Software Manager for Automotive ECUs, ADAS products and Perception sensors for Autonomous vehicles• Total 16+ years of experience in Embedded Firmware management/development of Radar, LIDAR and Domain ControllerMANAGER/LEAD:• Managing the Tracker/Features Embedded SW team with 8 direct reports• Agile Product owner & Technical Lead• Conducting 3 day Big Room Planning meetings to plan the quarterly goals with 20+ members• Conductin Sprint Planning & Sprint Reviews with team demos• Assigning tasks to Development team and executing them• Performance evaluation of direct reports, providing continuous feedback facilitating career growth• Previously managed the LIDAR Embedded SW team• Volunteered and facilitated Sprint Planning of another team with 7 engineers• Co-ordinating with 8 team leaders and Senior managers to define goals and roadmap for my team• Setup a training program for interns and new engineers• Mentored interns studying bachelor’s degree and won cash award for excellent mentorship• Served as hiring manager for recruiting candidates in my team• Defining Embedded processor software architecture• Co-ordinating with customers and Tier 2 suppliersTECHNICAL SKILLS- Radar Signal Processing- LIDAR Signal Processing - Embedded Linux- Worked on Infineon Aurix, Mobileye EyeQ3, Several TI ARM/DSP microcontrollers, Renesas V3H, NXP Treerunner- Accelerator Optimization in Low level language- Embedded processor architecture and low level data acquisition • 2 Patents published in the field of radar and perception• Knowledge of MISRA, ISO 26262 Functional Safety Standard, AutoSAR, CAN and Ethernet communication• Worked on the full product development life cycle from requirement analysis, software architecture, design, implementation, testing / validation and release to OEM.

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Embedded Software Development

   Lucid Motors

   May 2021 — Present

   Contributions • Managing a team with 14 direct reports and working on Embedded software for 15 ECUs in the car. • Participated in \"Critical escalation \" meetings with Senior Vice President and Vice Presidents. • Better management of HW availability and usage of Platform team • Shipped 15+ ECUs/ HW/ Items within US and to Poland • Created Sprint board for organizing work for my direct reports in JIRA. Improved team JIRA ticket handling • Introduced Sprint Planning to the team and successfully executed 5 sprints in 2021. Continuing to execute sprints in 2022 also. Conducted regular 2 week retrospective meetings and worked on suggested team improvements • Progressed on JAMA requirements capture - created the relevant components in JAMA according to AutoSAR architecture. Created a test report template and made the team to attach test reports to JIRA tickets. Test reports have been regularly attached to all JIRA tickets for the past 5 sprints Release Manager / Technical Program Manager - TPM • Involved in managing the content and timeline of the major software releases • Executed the S21.7, S21.8, S21.9, S21.10 releases without major delays in schedule from my team. Coordinated with application team for executing merge requests, checking priority, proactive communication and managing release contentPeople Manager • Conducted monthly 1:1s with direct reports to give and receive feedback • Resource Manager for my team - balancing the workload of my team members • Implemented a Performance Improvement Plan for the low performing 4 contractors • Lead and enabled the test bench setup with CANoe for the remote contractors and resolved a problem which was causing their low performance

Education

• Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School

  High School

  2002 — 2004

• PSG College of Technology

  B.E, ECE

  2004 — 2008

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education

  Master of Science, Embedded System Design

  2008 — 2010