Rahul Kumar

About Rahul Kumar

I am an engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building safety-critical products, scaling manufacturing teams from scratch, and driving regulatory compliance across embedded systems, IoT, and semiconductor domains. At United Fire Equipments, I established an entire electronics division from zero - hiring and training a team of 20+ professionals, launching 5+ products including emergency lighting, fire suppression systems, and medical devices, and ensuring 100% adherence to IEC, BIS, and EMI/EMC standards. At Capgemini, I resolved a critical authentication failure affecting millions of Dell devices worldwide - a problem that multiple teams had failed to solve over four months.My career has consistently placed me at the intersection of technical decision-making and business impact. I believe that technical failures are board-level fiduciary risks. Most boards lack the engineering depth to evaluate product risk, software integrity, or manufacturing quality until a crisis hits.I bring that depth - rooted in hands-on experience with DFMEA, stress analysis, MTBF, and production optimization - combined with the people leadership to build cultures of accountability, mentorship, and ethical conduct.I specialize in governance for technology-driven companies: manufacturing firms scaling through Industry 4.0, IoT ventures connecting hardware to cloud, and family businesses transitioning from traditional operations to data-driven decision-making.I don\'t just advise from the boardroom - I understand what happens on the factory floor, in the firmware code, in the electronics hardware and in the testing lab: Smart Manufacturing | Medical Devices | IoT & Connected Products | Semiconductor | Fire Safety | Family Businesses Scaling Through Technology : Independent Director roles, Advisory Board positions, Technical Governance consulting for manufacturing SMEs and technology startups. Let\'s connect: e•••••••@outlook.com

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   STMicroelectronics

   May 2023 — Present

   Own the complete development lifecycle of critical device drivers (UART/USART, RTC, CRC) for STMicroelectronics products, designing production-grade drivers from architecture through deployment across two concurrent product lines.Key Contribution & Board-Relevant Impact- Architected and delivered device drivers now running in production across multiple STM product lines, directly impacting product reliability and time-to-market- Pioneered AI tool adoption within the engineering team, achieving 50% productivity improvement in development workflows - demonstrating practical understanding of AI ROI at the operational level- Serve as the team\'s \"AI generalist,\" driving organizational adoption of generative AI for code generation, debugging, and documentation - a key Industry 4.0 competency- Manage concurrent delivery across two product timelines, balancing quality, deadlines, and resource constraintsGovernance-Relevant Competencies Developed: Product lifecycle management, technology risk assessment, AI-driven operational transformation, concurrent program management, semiconductor industry depth

Education

• Inderprastha convent Sr. Sec School

  Matriculation, Science and technology

  2006 — 2008

• DIT School of engineering

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2009 — 2013

• Prince Public Sr. Sec School

  Sr. Sec; CBSE, Science and technology

  2000 — 2006

Skills

• Electronics
• Circuit Design
• Shell Scripting Using Bash Shell
• Cadence Orcade Capture (Pspice)
• Microcontrollers
• Image Processing
• Very-Large-Scale Integration (Vlsi)
• Shell Scripting
• Linux
• Modelsim
• Digital Electronics
• Bash
• Embedded C
• Matlab
• Electrical Engineering
• Embedded Systems
• • Development Tools: Make , Makefile Scripts and Syntax, Rcs, Cvs.
• Digital Signal Processors
• Analog Circuit Design
• Simulations
• C
• Programming
• Vlsi
• Verilog
• Pspice
• Xilinx