Shiva Krishna Ainala

• Lead the System and Software Architects and define work packages, guide/mentor them to define efficient/effective solutions for Automated Parking projects for VW group.
• Effort estimation, Cost & Resource planning and defining premises to the customer requests.
• Understanding the customer requirements and defining the concepts together with OEMs, Tier1 companies and other Subcontractors and aligning the same with internal teams.
• Defining the direction to the team and harmonizing the architecture between various customer projects.
• Training the team members and debugging/supporting the analysis of critical technical issues in the various projects.
• Support and define the concepts to improve the continuous integration and automate various steps.

• Lead Architect for a new/future Continental base platform (Platform: TI TDA4) with wide set of sensors (Cameras, Ultrasonic sensors and Radars) (04.2020 - 09.2022)
• Lead Architect for Audi HCP2.TV (Top View) project for Automated Premium Parking and working together with Cariad, Bosch, TTTech, Blackberry and other Tier1 companies (Platform: Xilinx Zynq + NXPS32G) (02.2021 - 09.2022)
• Solution/Lead Architect for Continental's first Low Speed Maneuvering base project (Platforms: Renesas R-Car and Nvidia Parker) (09.2017 - 04.2020)
• Solution Architect for Daimler RVS231 project (Platform: Broadcom BCM89107) (11.2016 - 08.2017)
• Software Architect for Audi zFAS project (Platform: Nvidia Tegra) (01.2016 - 10.2016)

Main responsibilities:

• Leading the Experts, System and Software Architects from various domains (Platform, Computer vision and Machine learning,
  Ultrasonic, Sensor fusion and environmental model, Driving functions and Visualization etc) and defining the High-level
  Architecture in compliance to Safety and Security standards.
• Understanding the customer requirements and defining the concepts together with OEMs, Tier1 companies and other
  Subcontractors and aligning the same with internal teams.
• Coordinating engineering activities with System, Software, Hardware, Testing and Integration Teams as well as the DV and
  Production teams.
• Define the work packages and review the architecture proposals from other Architects in the team.
• Defining the OS and SW framework, resource needs, event chains for various scenarios/usecases.
• Working experience with teams from different parts of the World (USA, UK, Hungary, Romania, Austria, India, China and
  different locations in Germany)
• Supporting the Vehicle test team to check various Parking scenarios, record the data and use it in the simulation environment to
  analyze the performance of various algorithms.
• Conducting/Supporting the Project Gate reviews.
• Handled the Project management together with technical responsibilities in critical situations.

• Worked as a Technical leader in Robert Bosch GmbH for BMW iCAM2 Surround view camera project and built a SW development and testing team of size around 30 Engineers in Bengaluru India.
• Acted as a FMEA moderator for various Bosch products.

• Worked as Functional Safety Expert and the Software Architect for Airbag ECUs in Hyundai Mobis.

• After gaining experience in Airbags software development, I worked as a Team Leader for the software team (size: around 12 Engineers).