Firmware Architect and Senior Technical Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
- Past
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- Team Lead and Firmware Architect at LSI
- Project Manager at MindTree Limited
- Project Lead (Client: Cisco Systems USA, Alcatel Belgium) at MindTree Limited
- Senior Software Engineer (Client: Mirapoint Inc USA, Mitsubishi Japan) at MindTree Limited
- Senior Engineer at CMC Limited (Currently TCS)
- Engineer at CMC Limited
- Education
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- Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Jai Narain Vyas University
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Ashish Batwara’s Summary
* More than a decade of experience in Software/Firmware development and management
* Customer, Team Management involving global, cross-functional teams
* Vendor Management, RFP, SOW, Proposal development and pre-sales activities
* Project/Program and Team Management
Ashish Batwara’s Specialties:
* Embedded Firmware
* Storage - Xen hypervisor, RAID, SCSI, FC, SAS/SATA, SES, SRP, InfiniBand, RAS, VDS, SBB, PMBus
* Networking - IPv6/IPv4, TCP/UDP, DHCP, Device Drivers, Embedded Networking, DiffServ, DNS
* Languages - C/C++, Assembly
* OS - Linux, VxWorks, Unix
* MS Office: Project, Powerpoint, Excel, Access, Visio
* CM/Tools - Clear Quest, CVS, CM Synergy, Rational Rose
Ashish Batwara’s Experience
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Firmware Architect
LSI
(Public Company; lsi; Semiconductors industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
* Feature Scoping
* Firmware Architecture Definition for RAID controllers involving FC, SAS/SATA, iSCSI, InfiniBand interfaces
* Firmware architecture for virtualized RAID controller using Citrix Xen Hypervisor
* Firmware architecture to integrate LSI's RAID controller into various OEMs' storage enclosures (Proprietary, SBB 2.0 compliance) -
Senior Technical Manager
MindTree
(Public Company; MINDTREE; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
* Managing Product Development Team for RAID Controllers
* Client Management
* Collaborate with cross functional teams: QA, Interoperability, Host Software, Benchmarking, Asic Design, Sub-System etc. -
Team Lead and Firmware Architect
LSI
(Public Company; lsi; Semiconductors industry)
April 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 3 months)
* Port the FC based RAID Controller Firmware from VxWorks to Linux
- Design and Implement the OS abstraction layer for Linux
- Architect, and design the Interrupt, memory and timer management, threading model etc
- Controller bring up on Linux (XScale platform), Controller shell development
- "C", OS: Linux/VxWorks
* Define and Implement various RAID Controller features -
Project Manager
MindTree Limited
(Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 6 months)
* Manage various project involving LSI's RAID controllers
* Manage client relationship
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Project Lead (Client: Cisco Systems USA, Alcatel Belgium)
MindTree Limited
(Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — December 2003 (3 years )
* Porting Cisco's Line-Card software from Linux to VxWorks
- Implemented and tested Ethernet driver as an END driver on VxWorks as well as ported character device driver. Implemented new socket family.
- Tested Line card functionality on VxSim and on target hardware.
* Designed and Implemented IPv6 forwarding functionality in Assembly language on IBM Network Processor for Alcatel's Core Router. Achieved 100% wire speed forwarding.
- Implemented the abstraction layer functionality in "C" for various applications, e.g. IPv6, VLAN, IPv4, QOS, Routing etc. -
Senior Software Engineer (Client: Mirapoint Inc USA, Mitsubishi Japan)
MindTree Limited
(Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — December 2000 (8 months)
* Implemented SDP layer of Bluetooth Protocol Stack in "C".
- Integrated SDP with other layers of Bluetooth Protocol Stack.
* Worked as Level 3 Customer support Engineer for Mirapoint Inc.
- Set up the test laboratory for the customer support group including configuring and managing the internal DNS server, LDAP Server. -
Senior Engineer
CMC Limited (Currently TCS)
(Computer Software industry)
April 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 1 month)
* Implemented project “Interim Augmentation of SCADA facilities for Western Region.”
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Engineer
CMC Limited
(Computer Software industry)
March 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 1 month)
* Work on SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) product to collect the data from RTUs (Remote Terminal Units) in the field and control the operation remotely.
Ashish Batwara’s Education
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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Project Management , Fundamentals of Project Management - Fast Track , 2003 — 2003
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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
M.Tech. , Electrical Engineering , 1996 — 1997
- Activities and Societies:
- * IEEE Tencon'98 (International Conference): Paper presented: " Optimum Power System Stabilizer parameters as affected by the amortisseurs of the synchronous generator "
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Jai Narain Vyas University
B.E. , 1992 — 1996
Additional Information
Ashish Batwara’s Websites:
Ashish Batwara’s Interests:
Entrepreneurship, Leadership Development, Technology - Startups, Management, Driving, Volunteering
Ashish Batwara’s Groups:
* PMI
* Toastmaster
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IIT Delhi -
Link Silicon Valley, LLC -
IIMB Alumni Association -
IIT Alumni -
The Storage Networking Industry Association -
India Leadership Network -
MindTree Connect -
The Storage Group -
MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur (Rajasthan) -
CMC Alumni -
LSI Corporation -
Texas Executive MBA Program
Ashish Batwara’s Honors:
* PMP certification from PMI
* Received Winner's Circle Award in Feb and Jun 2008.
* Received an Award in Sep 2009.
* Received Award in Dec 2007 for “Nurturing High Performance work Teams”.
* CEO Appreciation for outstanding feedback from customer in last 4 consecutive Customer Experience Survey 2004-2007.
* “Fundamentals of Project Management” from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Ashish Batwara’s Contact Settings
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