Charles Santhosam

About Charles Santhosam

Highly Technical, Senior R&D Management professional with 20 Years of wireless L1/L23/Arch experience. Master\'s from Indian Institute of science & MBA. Lead the team on development Test and Maintenance of complete 3G base station of fALU.Experience in embedded systems/SW/DSP/FPGA development.Managing the 5G L1 Base band development on FPGAs.Managed the Post Silicon Validation of an Image processing SoC15 yrs of Management exp in a Matrix org structure with teams across 4 sitesManaged a high performing team of System Engineers and Architects. Managed a diverse cross site team of engineers working on Linux and VxWorks platforms, HW and FPGA for a cloud based RNC and Embedded Base station. Agile PO -> Managed a complex feature with 5 scrum teams with 10+ competencies, across 4 sitesFirst person to employ collaboration tools such as Sharepoint for effective knowledge dissemination across the teams. Innovative in approach and problem solving. Filed application for two patents. Expert in wireless physical layer, protocol stack and DSP/FPGA. Skillset/Domain Knowledge- R&D Management- Team Building, Mentoring, Project & People Management- Excel & Microsoft Project- Wireless Layer1 - 3G, 5G- FPGA design and development - Altera and Xilinx- Embedded SW Programming - RTOS, C, Drivers, Assembly - for TI DSPs, ARM/Freescale processors - System Engineering & Architecture - 3G RAN- DSP SW Arch- Wireless BS Architecture- Agile SDLC- Capex/Opex- PLCOthers- Senior Member Served in Bangalore Execom of for two years- Certified Scrum PO- Passion for efficiency- Passion for Information Sharing and Mentoring

Experience

1. Director, Gpu Sw

   NVIDIA

   Jan 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead the Aerial Product SW design and development activities in India, for nVIDIA GPU Architectures.

Education

• Indian Institute of Science

  MS (Engg), CDMA Base station Receive CoProcessor Arch

  2001 — 2004

• Thiagarajar College of Engineering

  BE, Electronics and Communication

  1993 — 1997

• Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business Management

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Telecommunications
• Embedded Systems
• Wimax
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• 3g
• Hardware Architecture
• Fpga
• Embedded Software
• Systems Engineering
• Mentoring
• Rtl Development
• Pcb Design
• 3gpp
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (Umts)
• Silicon Validation
• Mobile Communications
• Software Project Management
• Device Drivers
• Integration
• Debugging
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Wireless Technologies
• Cellular Communications
• Program Delivery Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• C
• Digital Signal Processors
• Wcdma
• Hsdpa
• Cdma
• Clearcase
• Umts
• Wireless
• Lte
• Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (Fpga)
• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Vhdl
• People Development