AVS Prasad

Experience

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  NVIDIA

  Aug 2005 - Mar 2008

  Software Engineer

  Porting and optimization of Audio Codecs on Nvidia Tegra processor, exposure to SIMD optimization for AMR, AAC, MP3, SBC codecs.

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  Qualcomm

  Apr 2008 - Nov 2015

  Video decoders porting and optimization on Qualcomm Hexagon Processors.design/code and maintenance of video firmware that controls video hardware accelerator on QC snapdragon processors.My role involves design/develop SW/FW for wide range of video decoders/encoders and commercialization. MIDI and Audio PostProcessing on QCOM DSP processor, optimizing audio processing modules/algorithms on hexagon processor

  • Sr. Lead Engineer

    Sept 2012 - Nov 2015

  • Sr. Engineer

    Apr 2008 - Sept 2012
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  Qualcomm India

  Nov 2015 - Dec 2020

  Staff Engineer

  Camera processing firmware engineer. Role includes programming camera processing HW blocks, managing/developing multi-threaded firmware code controlling HW, pre-silicon validation of camera hardware, bring-up and commercialization of these modules with OEMs.

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  Qualcomm

  Dec 2020 - now

  Senior Staff Engineer/Mgr

  Lead camera firmware team of 10+ members to develop FW for next generation of Qualcomm camera HW for mobile/IOT/XR/Auto chipsets. Have grown the team from 3 members to 10 member team, actively lead the efforts to hire the talent and groom the team to achieve technical competency in order to manage some of the products.Optimize firmware to meet the latency and through put requirement of the products.Participate in camera architecture discussions to bring in improvements to architecture of the camera pipeline and controller processor to meet quality/performance aspects.Experience include contribution to camera architecture, performance evaluation, commercialization of the solutions. Exposure to complete life cycle of chipset from architecture to commercialization. Led the team to meet MISRA compliance and ISO 26262 standards that are mandatory for Automotive softwares. Show less