Siddharth Khimsara

Current

Applications Engineer (Customer Solutions Engineering) at Qualcomm
Founder at Idealizers

Past

Research Student (Multimedia and Wireless Communication Lab) at San Diego State University
Software Engineer (Intern) - Google Platforms at Google Inc.
Student Assistant (Electrical Engg Dept) at San Diego State University

Associate Embedded Software Engineer (WiFi Team) at Aftek Limited
Embedded Software Engineer (UI Team) at Aftek Limited
Student Trainee in Embedded Device Development team at Navigator's Fleet Tech Pvt. Ltd. Pune
Student Trainee at Brainvisa Technologies

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Education

San Diego State University-California State University
MESCOE, Pune University
Fergusson College

University of Pune

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Siddharth Khimsara’s Summary

Over 3 years of experience in embedded software and mobile platform design and development.

MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Wireless Networking and Embedded Software)

Siddharth Khimsara’s Specialties:

Symbian, BREW, BREW Mobile Platform, J2ME
Linux – Kernel space and User space development
Ad hoc Routing Protocols (AODV, AOMDV)
C, C++, Perl, Tk/Tcl, Python
MATLAB (Image Processing and DSP), NS-2 (Network Simulator)

Siddharth Khimsara’s Experience

Applications Engineer (Customer Solutions Engineering)

Qualcomm

(Public Company; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

BREW Customer Development:- Interface between Qualcomm and the customer. Working closely with Developers, OEMs and Carriers with BREW ecosystem (BREW development, app distribution, licensing and billing) related escalations and issues.

• Verizon Wireless associate in BREW Apps Engineering team:
---Responsible for investigation and resolution of all high priority escalations related to Verizon (on-field and off-field) BREW ecosystem specific issues.
---Customer requirement gathering, analysis and high level design reviews of new features development.
---Reviewing and writing process docs of Verizon specific business processes and app notes for BREW specific Verizon features.
---Closely assisting third party developers and OEMs in the development and integration of these features.
• Carrying out Readiness Reviews on OEMs pre-commercial mobile devices.
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Operational Acceptance Test failure analyses knowledgebase to help OEMs accelerate resolution of BREW porting failures on new handsets and reduce the time to market.
• Writing sample BREW apps to be shipped with the BREW and BMP SDK.
• Developing a C++ framework for rapid test app development for BREW Mobile Platform.
Founder

Idealizers

(Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

-Mobile Apps development in Symbian
-Website development in ASP .NET
Research Student (Multimedia and Wireless Communication Lab)

San Diego State University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2007 — July 2008 (11 months)

Developed a routing protocol for Wireless Multihop Ad Hoc Networks (MANET)
Software Engineer (Intern) - Google Platforms

Google Inc.

(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)

• Linux device driver development
• Implemented a monitoring tool (SSH Tunnel) in Python.
• Worked with the Mobile Apps team on GTalk version for iPhone. (Javascript)
Student Assistant (Electrical Engg Dept)

San Diego State University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)

Grader position for undergrad and grad courses.
-Software Engieering and Design
-Multimedia Communication Systems
Associate Embedded Software Engineer (WiFi Team)

Aftek Limited

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

December 2005 — June 2006 (7 months)

• Development of user space WiFi threads for an Arm Linux based smartphone.
Embedded Software Engineer (UI Team)

Aftek Limited

(Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 4 months)

Development of the following for an Arm Linux based smartphone..
• Multithreaded GUI design and implementation in Qt/Embedded UI Framework
• Middleware for cross platform implementation of the GUI between Windows and Linux
Student Trainee in Embedded Device Development team

Navigator's Fleet Tech Pvt. Ltd. Pune

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

November 2003 — May 2004 (7 months)

• Implemented a working prototype of an Embedded Web Server “Video Streaming over a Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) Network”, using PIC18F Microcontroller and PCMCIA interfacing for Wi-Fi card.
• Implemented a thin TCP/IP Stack & HTTP Protocol
Student Trainee

Brainvisa Technologies

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; E-Learning industry)

May 2000 — October 2000 (6 months)

• Content development for e-Learning software for GRE, GMAT, CAT and GATE
• Design HTML based test papers in DreamWeaver along with Macromedia Flash

Siddharth Khimsara’s Education

San Diego State University-California State University

MS , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 2006 — 2008

THESIS/RESEARCH :Locally Adaptive Multimetric Routing protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
MESCOE, Pune University

BE , Electronics and Telecommunication , 2000 — 2004

-Established the IEEE Students' Chapter
-Organized technical seminars under IEEE Chapter.

Activities and Societies:

IEEE
Fergusson College

HSC , Science , 1998 — 2000
University of Pune