Ravi Konda

About Ravi Konda

Over 25 years of total experience with over 18 years in a strong leadership role. Extensive experience in leading and commercialization of 802.11 (Wi-Fi) software and firmware across various families of SOCs from early days of 802.11b/g to latest 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) standards, and every Wi-Fi standard in between, across various market segments spanning Mobile (Linux Android, Windows phone, QNX HLOSes), Compute, Automotive, XR, Consumer Electronics, Mobile broadband, IOT. Experience through all stages – project planning, resource management, system software, software design and development, requirements definition and roadmap planning with product marketing, feature test specifications with QA teams, customer engagement. Extensive project and people management experience and proven technical leadership in managing large engineering team globally. Strong depth and breadth of RTOS, hardware/software partitioning and SOCs, ARM architecture, embedded software development, wireless & networking protocols, SW Engineering process, technical leadership, project management and people management.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering

   Qualcomm

   Apr 2004 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Over 24 years of total experience with over 15 years in a strong leadership role. Extensive experience in leading and commercialization of 802.11 (Wi-Fi) software and firmware across various families of SOCs from early days of 802.11b/g to latest 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7), and every Wi-Fi standard in between, across various market segments (mobile (linux Android, Windows phone, QNX HLOSes), computing, automotive, CE, IOT). Experience through all stages – project planning, resource management, system software, software design and development, requirements definition and roadmap planning with product marketing, feature test specifications with QA teams, customer engagement at various levels. Extensive project and people management experience and proven technical leadership in managing large engineering team globally. Strong depth and breadth of RTOS, hardware/software partitioning and SOCs, ARM architecture, embedded software development, wireless & networking protocols, SW Engineering process, technical leadership, project management and people management.Past ProjectsLead WLAN software feature development and commercialization of various Wi-Fi peer to peer Technologies (Wi-Fi Direct, Single channel/multi-channel concurrency, TDLS) on QUALCOMM mobile platforms.Lead QUALCOMM’s first WLAN driver development on QNX mobile platforms. Responsible for building a new team of software and test engineers to work on QNX connectivity platform. Was WLAN project lead for QUALCOMM’s first family of MiFi mobile routers with QUALCOMM’s first WLAN chipset and first LTE data card chipset (MDM) combination.Lead WLAN software team on various 802.11 feature developments and commercialization\'s on QUALCOMM’s legacy brew based mobile platforms.Was part of QUALCOMM’s EDGE/EGPRS team and supported various OEM commercialization\'s.

Education

• Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2023

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

• University of California, Berkeley

  Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP)

  2016 — 2016

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering

Skills

• Rtos
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Mobile Communications
• Lte
• Wifi
• Gsm
• Gprs
• Wlan
• Software Design
• Telecommunications
• Embedded Systems
• Arm
• Soc
• Cellular Communications