Rahul Yadav

About Rahul Yadav

Seasoned technocrat and leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience in wide range of IOT, Gen AI enabled smart, embedded, wireless and networking based products and systems such as Smart phones, Tablets, Smart TVs, Smart Home platform, Smart lighting, Smart office, Smart home appliances, Metro Ethernet Network Switches, Home Routers (CPE), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Mission Critical Systems (GPS based Aircraft Navigation), Casino systems, Smart Building Sensors, other Internet of Things (IoT) based systems.Key responsibilities:* Working at the intersection of Tech, Product, Business and Consumers.* Building GenAI enabled smart products - Multilingual AI voice expereince on smart products.* Responsbile for enabling launch of smart products internationally. Enabling IOT platform with data privacy compliances - CCPA/GDPR/DPDP.* IOT system architecture - Wi-Fi based Smart Home platform, BLE Mesh based lighting home/professional platform, Smart TV development on VIDAA (Linux based) platform.* Smart product strategy and roadmap. Stake holder management. Built and managed medium-large, teams from scratch.Key Skills -# IOT System Architecture, SW design, Bluetooth Classic, BLE Mesh, Wireless communication, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Home and infrastructure Networking technologies, C/C++, Embedded.Detailed Skills -# IOT Security architecture, Data privacy standards - DPDP, CCPA, GDPR. Enabling smart products for international launches in the USA, Europe, MEA.# Building OEM ecosystem for IOT & smart wireless products and platforms.# Protocols: BLE Mesh, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Amazon Alexa, FFS, Google Home, Matter.# Software: C/C++ on various RTOS (Honeywell-DEOS, QNX, freeRTOS, STEricsson- RTK) platforms as well as Linux. Linux kernel modifications in Network stack layers.# Internet of things (IoT) devices - IoT edge gateway, power constrained IoT devices, mobile SW and applications architecture.# I/O utilities using TCP/IP/UDP sockets to communicate between high performance subsystems located far remotely.# Network stack (RT-IP, LwIP) profiling and tuning to optimize performance.# WI-FI Direct: UPnP stack porting on ThreadX/ Samsung BADA platform, Smart Auto sync app# Expertise in Performance stabilization of Smart phones - Throughput, current consumption.# L2 protocols (Ethernet, LACP, IGMP snooping, VLAN) stabilization. L3 protocols (Ipv4, IPv6), L4 (L2tp), Proprietary NW protocols. L2tp IPv6 version development# SW Platforms (OS): Hard real time RTOS platforms i.e. DEOS, QNX, Embedded Linux, OpenWrt, Linux.

Experience

1. Site Lead Havells Iot R & d Noida, Sr Technical Expert

   Havells India Ltd

   Jul 2020 — Present · Noida, IN

   Role: Team Leader and System Architect- Driving IOT platform & products Strategy, roadmap, execution- Smart TV - VIDAA platform development- Driving Matter enablement, Bluetooth mesh based lighting platform and products- Embedded, C, C++, Linux, FreeRTOS, Security - Device, Communication and System- Innovation, Ownership of IOT products from Idea-to-POC-to-market- International launch of IOT products. User data Privacy compliances - CCPA, GDPR, DPDP- Smart Lighting - Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, BLE, Gateway

Education

• Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC ACTS), Bangalore

  PG Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (D.E.S.D), Embedded Systems Design

  2005 — 2006

• KNIT Sultanpur

  BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Electronics Engineering

  2001 — 2005

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Technology in Software Systems (MTSS), Embedded Systems

  2016 — 2018

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Software Engineering
• Unix
• Wlan/Wifi
• Embedded Software
• Testing
• L2/L3 Protocols
• Linux
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Development
• C++
• Real-Time Operating Systems (Rtos)
• Dhcp/Arp/Icmp/Socket Programming
• Rtos
• C
• Tcp/Ip Stack
• Bluetooth
• Eclipse
• Clearcase
• Embedded Linux
• Debugging
• Embedded Systems
• Test Automation
• Device Drivers