Namita Balachander

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Microsoft

   Aug 2014 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Software/Firmware Product Development Lead and Manager for Next Gen Surface Product Manage multiple teams in different geos contributing to next gen Surface products In charge of all software and firmware components that make up a Surface device and interactions with all of the different partner teams, scheduling, and trackingWorked on the AOSP Sensor experience for Microsoft Surface Duo 2Surface UEFI EngineerSurface System Integrator for Next generation products involved in getting all the software/firmware pieces for a next generation product aligned and working, debugging various bugs, working with different partners (external and internal) to create a cohesive productWorked on an end to end system to place a connected device into CTS test mode for DisplayPort. Designed and developed FPGA Verilog code on a custom board to implement the system.Implemented micro controller firmware code in C for this custom board. Created the C# API to communicate with this custom board from a connected PC over a UART cable.Created a WPF Application to interact with all of the different aspects of the board. Selected to work in a cross-functional team with two other early in career team members to work on a project to determine if there is a way to predict and prevent Microsoft hardware device returns using a correlation between test measurement data at the time of return and at the time of production. Used SQL to query database and work with very large data setsCreated C# tools and applications to help developers create manufacturing tests for different Microsoft products.Work with multiple teams across the world to integrate better solutions into manufacturing test systems.Led engineering development of a C# interface to communicate using TCP/IP and control new manufacturing test equipment. Designed and developed FPGA code to implement a system to control a device using the DisplayPort Aux Channel.

Education

• Purdue University

  BS, Computer Engineering

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Bash
• Nios Ii
• Altera Quartus
• Html
• Xaml
• Linux
• Algorithms
• Android
• Java
• Embedded Systems
• Software Development
• Python
• Msbuild
• Verilog
• Software Design
• Data Structures
• Css
• Object Oriented Design
• Spanish
• Unix
• C++
• Labview
• French
• Matlab
• Software Engineering
• C
• Programming
• Microsoft Office
• C#
• .net