Cofounder, CEO at cot-zero
India
- Current
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- Co-founder, CEO at cot-zero
- Past
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- CEO at 7iDigital
- Staff Engineer at Montalvo Systems
- Customer Program Manager, Digital Still Camera at Texas Instruments, India
- Project Manager, SW Tools at Texas Instruments, India
- Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corp
- Software Engineer at Adobe
- Member of Technical Staff at Network Programs
- Systems Engineer at Wipro Systems
- Education
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- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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Apurva Sharan’s Summary
* Creation and Negotiation of Product Roadmaps
* Extensive experience with embedded software architecture and its deployment.
* Architecture and implementation of Software Verification frameworks across multiple simulation platforms
* Extensive experience with several operating systems for both GPPs as well as DSPs.
Apurva Sharan’s Experience
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Co-founder, CEO
cot-zero
(E-Learning industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
cot-zero is working on a leading edge education platform which enables a collaborative method of learning.
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CEO
7iDigital
(Consumer Electronics industry)
May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)
7iDigital — a new venture by 7Avenues Private Equity — has been working to offer very affordable low-cost consumer electronics: Laptops, Mobile Phones, and Digital Cameras — starting with laptops in the very near future. With healthy specifications, and price starting under $250, we can meet the need of a wide range of students, professionals, and businesses.
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Staff Engineer
Montalvo Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)
Architected the firmware verification frameworks and managed the team responsible for verifying firmware:
* Built the team from scratch and achieved a good level of success within a very short timeframe
* Architected a highly portable solution that could be used to test firmware on pure software simulation platform as well as emulation platform -
Customer Program Manager, Digital Still Camera
Texas Instruments, India
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)
July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year)
Managed delivery of software components for DSC customers. The digital cameras using these software components are currently selling in the market.
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Project Manager, SW Tools
Texas Instruments, India
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)
January 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 6 months)
Managed the design and development of DSP/BIOS Link. This product enabled customers to leverage multiple cores available on several media processors created by Texas Instruments.
* Defined and prioritized product roadmap with inputs from internal and external stake holders.
* Implemented a few protocols for transferring data across cores. These protocols were generic and were ported to work across different types of interconnections between the cores - e.g. shared memory, PCI and HPI. -
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 1999 — November 2001 (2 years 2 months)
Developed automated tests and testing infrastructure for Deployment Tool in Visual Studio .NET
* Handled verification of several new features that were added to the product - e.g. custom actions and merge modules.
* Mentored a few new joinees to the team -
Software Engineer
Adobe
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)
July 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Lead the file format team for InDesign 1.0
* Contributed to development of file format filters for MS Word, RTF and text formats -
Member of Technical Staff
Network Programs
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 5 months)
Contributed to design and development of command processors for establishing PVC and SVC connections on Fujitsu's FETEX150 ESP.
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Systems Engineer
Wipro Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WIT; Computer Software industry)
July 1996 — March 1997 (9 months)
Contributed to development of a customer care product from Wipro - ServicEdge. Was responsible for the development of some of the tools and techniques that helped the team in their development tasks.
Apurva Sharan’s Education
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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
BTech , Computer Science and Engineering , 1992 — 1996
Apurva Sharan’s Contact Settings
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