Manjunath Nagaraja

About Manjunath Nagaraja

22+ years’ of cutting-edge technology and product strategy and management experience including comprehensive understanding and delivering embedded software to the media, mobile and automotive industries.Trusted and respected industry leader in automotive software - including multimedia( Audio, Display), Expert knowledge of Automotive Software ecosystem - Silicon vendor, Tier1 and OEM. Customer Engineering - Develop new ways to reproduce issues at BSP level and provide triage/ fix for complex automotive issues in Multimedia Extensive experience in program management in Automotive projects from silicon vendor perspectiveDeep knowledge of computer architecture/ operating systems/ virtualization with respect to latest trends in Automotive SoCSpecialties: Extensive experience in Automotive Software, Mobile Multimedia, Hypervisor and Virtualization, Hardware Adaptation and Integration on Android and Linux HLOS and QNX RTOS based systems. I have an extensive background in Real-time software design, Embedded Systems, Automotive infotainment, Digital Cockpit,Creating and scaling highly effective teams to address complex technological solutions for automotive/ mobileRewarded with Best Project, Execution Excellence, CEO awards on multiple occasions.

Experience

1. Associate Director

   Samsung Semiconductor

   Feb 2002 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Automotive Software * Audio / Video/ Display Technical Lead * Full ownership of ALSA, QNX, Android Audio and HAL * Full ownership of HiFi4/5 DSP Firmware development - Bringup, IPC, ALSA state machine * Customer support - to Tier1\'s and OEM for complex issues for many lines of products * Full ownership of QNX display WFD drivers * Complex use cases - requirement analysis w.r.t functionality, performance, KPI, memory bandwidth for Superframe, MST and other display configurations in ExynosAuto SoC * VIdeo/ Scaler/ DMAHeap/ Sysmmu kernel component architecture and ownership * Aspice Level2 - ADS/UDS reponsibiliy. Knowledge of aspice / FuSa/ Cybersecurity process * Experienced in pre-silicon environment driver development (Zebu)* Project PL * Project Leadership for a line of products with Top Tier1 * SOW Review, SW CI/CD decisions, delivery model * Responsible for SW architecture decisions at cross functional layers (camera, video, audio, display)* Coordinate with all stakeholders for full technical support Mobile Software * Android Update program management * FPGA based early driver development for Audio peripherals * Early diagnostics Software for multimedia Microcontroller Software * GLobal platform runtime development DSP Software * MP3/WMA/ AAC Audio Encoder, Decoder on 24 bit DSP * Expert Assembly programming skills * Expert knowledge of computer architecture

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Master of Technology - MTech

• R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore

  Bachelors in Engineering