Rahul Bhushan

Software program lead for automotive projects for Automotive OEM companies with direct interface to customers and internal R&D teams

• Lead complex multi-party Hardware bring-ups with suppliers from different geo-locations 5 to 7 different suppliers
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver complex software projects on time, enhancing operational efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction:: Up to 12 SW development teams in 4 different countries
• Implemented Agile methodologies, resulting in increase in project delivery speed and improved team collaboration
• Lead critical discussions with international third party suppliers and external software vendors, Operating system suppliers ( Vector, QNX, Windriver, KPIT) chipsets vendors ( Qualcomm, NXP) supplier management
• Conducted regular project reviews and retrospectives, driving continuous improvement and enhancing team accountability and performance.
• Oversaw planning, application development, verification and risks involved in software projects.
• Evaluated, assessed and recommended software products that would meet project requirements.
• Main interface to solving all client questions regarding software and act as main project on-site interface
• Increased team performance by regularly reviewing progress, providing constructive feedback, and setting attainable goals.
• Consistently met deadlines while maintaining high-quality standards, contributing to the company''s reputation for excellence in the software industry.
• Championed internal CI/CD adoptions in the project
• Managed all communications between clients, stakeholders and in-house software development team.

Main projects: Multi-SOC ADAS ECU, Interior sensing camera for cabin sensing (DMS – driver monitoring system, CMS-cabin monitoring system) , Automotive radar

Tools and Technologies : ASPICE, Microsoft office, JIRA, Confluence, QA framework, git/bitbucket Polarion, QNX, Linux, Coverity, Klockwork, Jenkins, Change request management, PO management

Responsible for handling third party embedded software development for one of newest projects at Thales railways division based on in-house embedded hardware and Linux based OS platform, directly responsible for software quality topics etc.

Managed an external company with engineers in Germany and Mexico, for all SW delivery activities, starting from planning, documentation, training, SW development, quality continuous integration and pipeline definition, product test in lab, product release and acceptance criteria. The SW has compliance to railway functional safety (CENELEC) and cyber security (IEC 62443).

Additionally, I managed software integration of the core real-time operating system for all Thales railways signaling products, working as a bridge between OS team and core applications teams. I was a part of a team to define strategy, plans and procedure for seamless Operating system integration for different signaling computer systems used in high-speed railway networks.

Tools: ASPICE, Microsoft office, Microsoft project, JIRA, Confluence, git/bitbucket, Coverity, Klockwork, SonarQube, Jenkins, Change request management, PO management

• Established software quality practice and group at Dialog semiconductor
• Implemented ISO 25010 principals in semiconductor manufacturing test program development for Advantest and Teradyne testers
• Implemented MISRA, CERT based rule sets for code refinement
• Implemented modern DevOps principles, introduced CI/CD based automated code scanning and auditing functionalities
• Built development teams from scratch by hiring software developers in Greece and Germany
• Introduced Atlassian tools sets( JIRA, BitBucket, confluence) for a modern development practice
• Introduced automated workflows to use static and dynamic code analysis
• Introduced software KPIs and CACs ( code acceptance criteria) to judge code quality of external vendors
• Outcome: Huge cost savings done due to massive improvement in quality of test software

Tools: Microsoft office, Microsoft project, JIRA, Confluence, git/bitbucket, Coverity, Klockwork, Jenkins, Change request management, PO management

I worked with Intel projects for Apple, supporting integration, test and release of modem platforms (HW+SW).

Lead responsibilities:

• Technical pre-integration lead for Intel cellular modem chip.
• Leading offshore team of 12 software build managers and debug engineers, managing high turn around customer issues in the platform software.
• Software Test and software build content planning, software release planning, Integration approval and CCB (change control Board).

Technical responsibilities:

• Main expert in the system integration team for all LTE and LTE-Advanced measurements system setup and maintenance. This included Rohde & Schwarz CMW500 based measurement setups. Assisted in test automation by including scripts that aided in the inclusion of these advanced measurement equipment. Worked directly with R&S FAE on technical issues on CMW500 to define the use cases needed to support Intel platforms.
• Debugging multi-core and single core embedded cellular modem software using Lauterbach debugger.
• Analyzing software core dumps for multi-core and single core modem solutions
• System Integration test of multi-core and single-core cellular modem software
• Participate and support new hardware chipset virtual platform activities.
• Participate and support new hardware chipset platform bring up activities.
• CPU performance load measurements.
• Training and development of new colleagues
• Provide support to external customers’ requests
• Main interface in the team to third party protocol test equipment suppliers, helping in choosing the right equipment necessary for R&D activities.

Tools: Coverity, Klockwork, Jenkins, Error management system, Doors,Change request management, PO management

Develop embedded test software for Nokia phone on Linux platform:

a. cellular modems - RF non-signaling tests. Tools: C++ and Rohde & Schwarz CMU200

b. GPS – GPS tests implementation on hardware platforms. Tools: C++

Supporting software bring ups of Nokia smart phones and feature phones, in Nokia factories around the world, work with mass production runs by debugging software related problems in the factories, analyze core-dumps, build and integrate bring-up software.

Linux audio driver development in C for Ericsson Mobile Platforms, using the ALSA SOC audio layer for embedded Linux audio.