Raj Visharia

Software Developer for SnapdragonProfiler tool and other developer tools at Qualcomm

• Senior GPU Software Engineer developing Power & Performance software of Windows Kernel Driver to enable Intel Integrated/Discrete GPUs • Collaborate with graphics Firmware & Kernel teams to design and develop the interface between Graphics KMD and firmware for power management • Work spans over developing & validating power-state management with the help of lab team, and working with IGCL API team to develop/expose core performance and telemetry set of APIs

GPU Software Engineer at Advanced Computing Lab (San Jose, CA), part of Samsung Austin Semiconductor

• Worked on software development of ‘Speak to IoT’ architecture with focus on IoT, AI and Embedded Applications • Wrote scripts to download and install binaries on Raspberry Pi from the server and check for a specific wake word

• Part of the firmware team responsible for designing and developing world's first dual chamber leadless pacemaker. • Creating python scripts to automatically test the leadless pacemaker running on FPGA pacing heart simulator. • Designing firmware in C/C++ for the jamming feature to block/ unblock communication between the atrium and ventricle leadless devices. • Working on STT Buffer to convert D/A or A/D signals from engineering programmer to STT before passing them to the atrium and ventricle devices. • Build APIs for the test setup of pacemakers and debug scripts by reading circuit design/schematics, reqyuirements and by using Picoscope (Oscilloscope software) and other test equipment.

• Design, develop, document, and review software (Python scripting) for testing pacemaker programmer software. • Run the developed script for different test cases (as per the requirement document) and find scenarios where the code can break and then resolve them.

• Was a part of a team that supported inventory applications and web servers for a chemical industry. • Monitored several tasks and took periodic backups using shell scripting. • Successfully completed 3 months training in C++, UNIX, shell scripting and business skills. • Interacted and conducted Web-ex meetings with customers, users, business partners and other offshore teams on daily basis. • Played a key role in a Process Improvement (PI) Idea, which prevented a recurring issue. Thus, saved millions of dollars for the client company and reduced the work efforts of the team. • Awarded "On The Spot" award for remarkable performance and appreciation from the business partners in October 2016. • Along with few others carried out a dance performance in order to raise awareness for a kind initiative, 'Samarthan- Ek Abhyaan', which helped raise enough funds to construct a bore well at the girls' orphanage, 'Aasara' in Mumbai. Also, taught and organized events at the orphanage during the weekends. • Was an active member of ‘fun@work’, which periodically organized events in order to bring about a paradigm shift in the daily, monotonous work life in the IT industry.

Specialization: Embedded Systems.

B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication (EXTC) from D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, University of Mumbai