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Prithvi Thomas

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Director of Software : Embedded, Manufacturing & Head of India Eng Ops

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  • Skydio
    Senior Director of Software, Device Platform
    Skydio
    Feb 2026 - Current (8 months)
  • Skydio
    Director of Software : Embedded, Manufacturing & Head of India Eng Ops
    Skydio
    Jun 2023 - Jan 2026 (2 years 8 months)
  • Skydio
    Director of Embedded Software & Head of India Eng Ops
    Skydio
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 (6 months)
  • Skydio
    Sr Manager of Embedded Software
    Skydio
    Jul 2022 - Dec 2022 (6 months)
    Working on embedded software for the worlds best autonomous drones.

    Building an extremely talented robotics team focussed on Linux, Embedded Linux, RTOS and bare-metal.

    Leading the charge on setting up Skydio India’s Engineering division.

    We have plenty of open roles and are actively hiring. Interested to know more? Let’s chat!
  • Amazon
    Engineering Leadership
    Amazon
    Oct 2021 - Jul 2022 (10 months)
    Amazon Smart Vehicles
  • Lyft
    Staff Engineer / Tech Lead
    Lyft
    Jun 2018 - Oct 2021 (3 years 5 months)
    Part of the team working to get Lyft's Autonomous Vehicles on the road!

    Level 5 is Lyft’s self-driving division with offices in Palo Alto, California; Munich, Germany; and London, UK. Our mission is to build the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Together, with electric vehicles and Lyft Shared rides, autonomous vehicles will save millions of lives globally, eliminate congestion, reduce emissions, and allow us to rebuild cities around people and not cars.
  • MaxLinear
    Sr Staff / Lead Embedded Software Engineer
    MaxLinear
    Feb 2011 - May 2018 (7 years 4 months)
    • Responsible for 4 successful tape-outs as software project lead for wireless communication SoCs.
    • Designed synchronized data transfer mechanism between asynchronous CPUs.
    • Re-designed Data Plane of high speed networking devices to increase data rate 3x times (1Gbps to 3Gbps).
    • Responsible for CPU MIPS and memory foot print profiling and estimation during architecture phase of new SoC development.
    • Experienced in I2C, UART, SGMII, RGMII and GMAC, CAM, PCIe and MDIO driver development.
    • Experienced in RTOS based multi-threaded software design and development on ARM and Tensilica based CPU architectures.
    • Experienced in pre-silicon verification, FPGA development, board bring-up and BSP support.
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  • Qwest Communications
    Sr Engineer / Intern
    Qwest Communications
    Jun 2009 - Feb 2011 (1 year 9 months)
    • Implemented Video Workflow system for Adaptive Streaming to iOS devices using Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol
    • Developed Objective and Subjective Video Quality Analysis strategies for encoder evaluation. Proposed "Pair Comparison" technique for subjective testing and SSIM / PSNR, Motion Vector analysis, Dynamic Macro Blocking and GOP Structure analysis for objective testing to validate encoder robustness
    • Performed Fiber to the Home router testing (RFC 2544 and RFC 2889)
    • Lead for evaluation of Home Networking technologies for delivering IPTV solution on the Microsoft Mediaroom Platform
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    Sr Software Engineer
    Philips Electronics India Limited
    Jun 2006 - Jul 2008 (2 years 2 months)
    • Worked on the middleware layer of embedded stack for up-market flat display systems
    • Worked extensively in component based design methodologies in an RTOS environment
    • Developed and implemented I2C and RS232 software interfaces communication protocols for 3rd party microcontrollers
    • Worked with JTAG debugging tools on a regular basis
    • Owned components responsible for storage and retrieval of data from NVM and maintaining Last Status of display settings.
    • Owned components handling the behavior and actualization of audio and video parameters of displays and developed API's for the same
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  • University of Southern California
    Master of Science, Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing and Communications
    University of Southern California
    Coursework:
    Digital Signal Processing, Adaptive Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Multimedia System Design, Probability and Random Processes, Mobile Communications, Computer Networks
  • National Institute of Technology Warangal
    Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering
    National Institute of Technology Warangal
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    MPEG Video Compression
    Dec 2009 - Current (16 years 10 months)
    • Implemented the standard MPEG encoder and decoder modules
    • Performed background-foreground segregation for optimum quality and compression ration using LBG algorithm for clustering of pixels with motion vectors as parameter
    • Implemented techniques to handle dynamically complex scenarios like moving camera and moving foreground
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    Beam forming algorithms and adaptive filter design
    May 2009 - Current (17 years 5 months)
    • Analyzed the behavior of Least Squares (LS) technique for algorithm training and Least Mean Squares (LMS) algorithm for tracking quasi-static channels
    • Analyzed the application of LMS algorithms to Beam Forming
    • Used LS and LMS algorithms to recover speech from a noise corrupted signal
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