Ananthraj Narasappa-Founder

Oversaw RFQs, project negotiations, steering development teams, requirements gathering, project planning, execution, delegation, cost estimation, budgeting, building business relation and delivery. Managed operations including hardware procurement, logistics, supplier relations, and setup of HILs at customer data centers.

• Built strong teams through motivation, development strategies, effective hiring, and relevant training programs.
• Delivered hardware products and software leveraging innovative technology, from ADAS to EV cars, and intelligent speed assistance systems for OEMs across Europe and Asia.
• Directed customer projects of varying sizes, up to teams of sixty, ensuring timely completion and adherence to budget constraints.
• Defined project milestones, resource plans, and KPIs, OKRs achieving them successfully through structured processes.
• Established communication channels with product teams and stakeholders, fostering collaboration across multi-site, culturally diverse development teams.
• Facilitated workshops, design reviews, integration camps and integration meetings to align customer goals with project deliverables.
• Ensured customer satisfaction by adhering to timelines, commitments, and quality standards.
• Conducted regular alignment meetings with product and project teams to ensure compliance with customer requirements and standard life cycle processes.
• Oversaw training, certification, and recruitment to align resources with organizational and customer goals.
• Encouraged teams to adopt agile methodologies (SCRUM) and best practices, achieving high-quality deliverables while minimizing risks.

Achievements:

• Program Management: Successfully developed and delivered the software (SIL) for validating the reprocessing toolchain of data streaming for cameras and LiDAR ECUs to achieve ASIL-B in autonomous driving programs, in alignment with suppliers and stakeholders for premium automotive OEMs.
• Responsible for developing the ISA solution for premium East Asia OEM vehicles to comply with EU regulations. Supported production start, market launch, and maintenance.
• Delivered ISA solutions achieving homologation with top results, leading to vehicle production (SOP).
• Product Management: Coordinated the entire product (Video HIL) development based on ADAS solutions to achieve ASIL-B in autonomous driving (AD) using LiDAR technology. Ensured on-time product delivery and set up racks at customer data centers in collaboration with the customer.
• Integrated and developed: BMW Cloud environments and customized Linux distributions for EV programs. Participated in integration camps in Europe upon OEM requests.
• Staffing and Resourcing: Ensured the right resources were in place to support project tasks and achieve success.
• Supplier Management and Alliances: Established courteous business relationships and closely collaborated on projects and programs with automotive suppliers.
• Quality and Best Practices: Implemented best practices by streamlining QA to improve efficiency and productivity (AGILE/ASPICE). These initiatives, combined with a customer-first mentality, resulted in excellent Supplier-Tier1-OEM relationships in the competitive automotive industry.
• Time and Budget: Rolled out CI automation toolchains on time and within budget, achieving high quality and customer satisfaction. Delivered customized Linux distributions to EV programs. Managed projects with budgets ranging from a few hundred euros up to €10 million, leading large project teams.
• Tools and Technology: Delivered robust DevOps toolchains and performant CI/CD pipelines. Developed ISA solutions based on the ADASIS V2 platform using EB Assist ADTF for ADAS/AD.
• Leadership: Demonstrated a clear vision for organizational goals, achieving them through rational thinking, collaboration, and servant leadership. Balanced team work-life considerations to drive project success.
• Crisis Management: Handled escalations at board management levels for time-critical projects, involving multiple suppliers in the product pipeline. Ensured alignment with the right experts and management

Drive the software integration of 2G/3G/4G platform project daily tasks and deliver platform releases to different customer projects. Resource planning and training and supported tools team in rolling out new CI/CD pipeline organization wide. Conduct weekly release review meetings for every release with cross functional teams for the software delivery. Integration/bring up camp planning and take part as part of system integration team. Planning and responsible for platform software releases to customer projects and tool optimization. Reporting to program management and quality team on the klocwork statistic reports throughout the project life and support OSS scan for the software deliveries. Leading a small team of build managers and system integration engineers. Reporting bugs and take part actively in CCB meetings.

• Software integration of software component deliveries into the system releases on regular cycle and creating baselines and release notes. Branching and merging strategy definition for new projects and follow-up projects.
• Oversee the possible software integration issues and inform the project management.
• Cross functional team co-ordination within the entire project team and product organization
• Delivery of software releases/baselines to developer community and customers with all relevant data and documents
• Debugging software integration and build issues along with developers and customer project team to resolve the issues.
• Prepare quality metric reports to project management and quality team for every software releases.
• Awareness on OSS scanning and third-party libraries licensing and its influence on the software.
• Perform smoke testing on HW prototype and first level of debugging.