Roles & Project Contributions

In KPIT

• Trainer & Learning facilitator for Freshers & Experienced teams, developed & delivered various modules to enhance fresher efficacy models & competency levels of working teams as per project/client expectations.
• Technical support for Lateral hiring - played a critical role in setting up assessment framework & evaluation support as part of strategic partnership with premier OEMs.This helped in solving some ground level problems like shortlisting right candidates with coding experience for further rounds, thus optimizing interview panel bandwidth.
• Digitization of learning resources- Developed e-learning content for various modules required for Fresher training & continuous education, to bring a pradigm shift towards Flip & Blended learning modes.
• Effective collobaration with Architects & SMEs for continuous enhancement of training models.
• Technical SPOC for project specific training requests from various teams at run time, advisory support with effective customized training plans as per available competency & resources.
• Internal supervisor for Master’s degree projects, mentoring on niche automotive trends.
• Design customized assessments as per target audience.
• Evaluation support for assessments, introduced partial auto grading methods.

In CDAC

• Core faculty for Embedded systems & IOT domains.
• Mentor for PG Diploma & MTech projects.
• Design & review of syllabus for PG-Diploma courses, Major focus on Embedded Systems & IOT.
• Design & evaluation support for various assessments.
• Developed cute-iperf : Qt based GUI for iperf, hosted at github.com/rajeshsola/cute-iperf.
• Developed skeleton driver for Android Open Accessory(AOA) protocol, by customizing USB skeleton driver, (hosted at github.com/rajeshsola/adk-driver-skeleton).
• Developed node-red addons for IOT Prototyping,used for USB, CAN connectivity and InfluxDBaccess (hosted at github.com/rajeshsola/node-red-addons).
• Developed addons for Eclipse Kura, an OSGi based IOT gateway – InfluxDb, HTTP REST, SocketCAN service bundles and demos , hosted at github.com/rajeshsola/kura-addons.
• Developed Qt app for IMU Sensors(SenseHAT) on RaspberryPi – for on board addon using Qt Sensors, remote sensors using qmqtt module.(Desmo code for IoTShow.in,EFY Conference 2017).
• Advisory support for effective hardware resources

Common Roles & Contributions

• Co Delivery support for Master’s degree modules.
• Effective team bonding & advisory support to resolve some critical constaints across the teams.
• Branding support for the organization through knowledge sharing with community
• Added support for branding organizational updates & initiatives,as a Active professional network user.
• Balanced working style to fulfil both passion & business demands.

Some themes in student/trainee project mentoring (CDAC & KPIT)

• Custom Drivers, Network connectivity in Zephyr OS.
• Working with ARM mbed OS, mbed.org APIs
• Qt programming on RaspberryPi with SenseHAT – Qt Sensors, Qt Plotting
• Porting Xenomai on BeagleBoneBlack
• Working with Xenomai RTDM Drivers
• Device Firmware on MCUs, USB Host Drivers on Linux, libusb APIs
• Interfacing Android with target boards via USB using AOA protocol
• USBIP for remote access of connected devices – using drivers, libusb APIs
• MiWi packet sniffing on Linux target – customizing USB Skeleton Driver
• Working with SocketCAN
• Building EtherCAT master & slave stacks on PC, porting to BeagleBoneBlack
• Simulation of Realtime CAN in Xenomai environment
• Integrating CAN networks with IOT platforms
• Implementing CoAP server, MQTT clients on Zephyr OS
• Bridging Bluetooth LE networks with IOT Platforms

• Edge Computing with InfluxData kapacitor

• Publishing Vehicle Telmetry Data over HTTP REST APIs
• Simulation of Instrument Panel Cluster
• Simulation of Infotainment sub systems - HVAC, TPMS, Media Player, Radio, Navigation etc.
• Implementation of Remote Diagnostics on constrained devices
• Implementation of Virtual CAN port for remote diagnostics
• Implementation of service-oriented middleware on constrained devices

Projects & Contributions prior to CDAC

• Bugfixing,Feature improvement in OpenOffice.org Impress, Calc - B.E. Final Year Project as an intern at Novell Inc,Bangalore.
• Incubation tasks on headless OpenOffice.org for Batch conversion & Batch Printing - Novell Intern
• Customization of embedded linux and porting of J2ME profiles - Inhouse project at sasken
• Porting mpeg4ip on thin linux - Inhouse project at sasken
• Bootstrapping with few client specific mobile frameworks - Sasken
• Fixing of VBA Macros Interoperability issues for OpenOffice.org (Independent task)
• QPowertop: Qt based GUI for powertop, hosted at github.com/rajeshsola/qpowertop (Independent task)