Vinayaka Pawate

Hands-on engineering leadership in a PCI-DSS regulated payments environment, owning organisational design, engineering standards, and delivery risk. Architected an LLM-powered code review system with RAG pipeline and led three engineering teams across web, mobile, embedded, and AI.

Led a 10-15 person engineering organisation delivering next-generation medical diagnostic equipment, spanning embedded firmware, Android application, and AWS cloud in a safety-critical regulated environment. Spearheaded ISO 13485 and IEC 62304 regulatory certification from scratch and architected secure OTA firmware.

Primary architect and developer delivering a complete hardware communication software stack from scratch, enabling hardware to ship commercially for the first time. Built C++ hardware communication library and ported MATLAB algorithms to fixed-point C++.

Security-critical C++ development within a regulated endpoint protection ecosystem. Developed Windows kernel-mode device driver for real-time file I/O and registry interception, and delivered C++11 multithreaded components with ETW logging and Google Test.

Developed novel 3D touch screen driver technology for Android, integrating pressure-axis sensing into the Android input framework. Built USB 3D touch screen device driver from scratch.

Led a team of 5 engineers to co-architect and deliver a greenfield platform for high-throughput biological cell analysis, including ARM hardware, GigE Vision cameras, OpenCV image processing, and a full WPF/MVVM desktop application.

Led a team of 10 engineers delivering the complete touch screen technology stack, including kernel-level Windows drivers, embedded ARM firmware, and multi-touch algorithms across Windows, Linux, and ARM. Resolved Blue Screen errors, eliminated memory leakage, and signed drivers for commercial distribution.

Device driver development and optimisation on Texas Instruments OMAP3/OMAP4 smartphone platforms, involving ARM and C64x DSP processors.

H.264 decoder optimisation on C64x DSP, achieving a verified 2.27x improvement (859 to 378 MIPS) using hand-coded Assembly. Published by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Grade: Distinction

MSc in Advanced Computer Science with Distinction from the University of Leicester, UK, from 2009 to 2010.

Grade: First Class

BEng in Computer Science with First Class from Visveswaraiah Technological University, India, from 2003 to 2007.

Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification from PMI, the highest level in the Disciplined Agile framework.

Disciplined Agile Scrum Master certification from PMI.