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.
• One of the key members, acting as a bridge between Bosch higher management and the Core technical teams in ADAS, to take the important technical decisions.
• Training the team members and debugging/supporting the analysis of critical technical issues in the various projects.
• Support and define the concepts to improve continuous integration and automate various steps.
• Analyzing the AI Safety concerns, understanding the gaps from ISO 26262 and SOTIF, and contributing to define the Bosch internal process to develop the AI-based models.
• Coordinating engineering activities with Systems Engineering, Hardware, Testing and Integration Teams as well as the Simulation, Design Validation and Production teams.

• 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, Product owners, System and Software Architects from various domains and defining the High-level Architecture in compliance with Safety (ISO26262, SOTIF), and Security (ISO21434) standards.
• 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 OS and SW framework, resource needs, event chains, and other core technical concepts for complex multi-core architectures.
• Involved in defining the Secondary bootloader and Startup concept for Audi HCP2 together with Blackberry.
• Defined the high-level architecture on QNX and have experience in debugging/analyzing the issues with Momentics.
• Involved in training & designing the CCN models for Object classification and Parking slot classification.
• Review and also contribute to the FMEA analysis.
• Working experience with teams from different parts of the world (USA, UK, Hungary, Romania, Austria, India, China, and different locations in Germany).
• Handled the project management, together with technical responsibilities, in critical situations.
• Involved in the interviews/selection of the subcontractors and defined the requirements/work packages to them.

• 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.
• Involved in all phases of ISO26262 (Item definition, HARA, deriving safety goals, FSR, TSR, FMEA/FTA analysis, System & Software architecture etc) and one of the key members contributed to receive the TUV safety certification for Hyundai Airbag ECUs.

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