Siddhant Awasthi

Program Manager for Hardware Engineering team at Tesla. Cover product/device portfolio of Passive entry, BLE products ,Authentication, Keyfobs, Seat sensing across different vehicle platforms. - Drive multiple parallel Hardware programs for product life-cycle across all Vehicle platforms - Lead cross-functional team discussions for integration and quick decision making - Optimize on Cost, maximize scope and run programs on compressed timelines

- Designed Automated Car Body Storage and Retrieval system for Tesla’s GF3 at Shanghai - Developed Tesla’s first flexible interconnected Shop conveyance and storage system to drive Efficient throughput of GF3 -System and factory flow logic design to decouple different shops through conveyance systems -Coordinated and lead requirements with multiple stakeholders for efficient system design and quick turnarounds on decision -Re-commissioned an automated conveyance system to increase equipment availability by XX% with minimal spending -Designed and evaluated electrical and control interface to implement Industry 4.0 concepts for manufacturing equipments -RCA and design solutions for automated systems by implementing minimal but effective changes to the existing equipments and system architecture -Optimized integration and test plans to minimize risks in a live production system

- Identification and troubleshooting for RFID ghost reads/missed reads critical to manufacturing bottlenecks -Design of experimental test setups to determine root cause of failures and to tune the antenna effectively -Development of external in-house solutions to increase the reliability of RFID system -Manufacturing material handling system startup, commissioning and troubleshooting -Design, installation and implementation of Factory vision project for Material Flow Engineering team

• Design of electrical system to propel and control the transportation pod in a vacuum tunnel. The team is competing in SpaceX’s annual Hyperloop pod competition. • Integration of Optical sensors for navigation and brake control, Force sensors to detect forces acting on the pod. • Design of PCBs of individual subsystems to interface with sensors and actuators. • Development of testing methods for the electrical subsystem on the pod. • Develop battery status system and vacuum tests procedures for battery, DC-DC converters, and sensor components on the pod. • Coding of algorithms in C for Arduino Due and test setups for braking mechanisms. • Coding of algorithms and test setups for braking mechanisms.

Lifestyle/Health Start-up developing wearable & portable products. The role required for products' hardware design and development from scratch to prototype phase. Only hardware and integration Engineer in company • Designed, developed, and tested a wearable and portable product to measure body vitals by non-invasive methodology. • Concept to prototyping of the portable product HOME (Hands on Monitoring Equipment), development of the whole system, feature set and product capabilities. • Designing evaluation setups for sensors, LCD and OLED displays. • Implemented a system to measure two-point ECG and gauge blood pressure on wrist using PTT. • Worked on schematic design, analog front end design/integration, embedded hardware design, board bring up, BOM procurement, technical documentation. • Debugging of hardware with respect to hardware functionality and integration with software. • BLE Antennae/RF testing for calculating efficiency of boards for different packet rates. • Quality check before and after of manufactured and assembled PCBs • BOM optimization for both the products and reduction of number of total components to be procured. • Communicating with DSP algorithm team and embedded firmware team for developing the hardware and testing for validation. • Sourced and partnered with different vendors and EMS companies for prototyping and product manufacturing of the product based on cost and time efficiency. • Product design with collaboration of a freelance industrial/mechanical designer for the design of product exteriors and ergonomics. • Management of recruiting process, requirements and drafting of NDA for partners and employees.

• Designed the analog front end to measure health vitals non-invasively. • Debugging and testing the POC at various optical and acquisition rates.

Responsible for the Technical as well as Managerial division. The team consists of 25 members from different fields of engineering, who are selected by interview process to use our engineering knowledge to build an UAV according to SAE Aerodesign Guidelines The team secured overall 10th rank in SAE Aero Design West 2015.

Project is funded by IEDC, DSCE after competing against 20 projects to select an innovative idea. The project consist of building, designing and market a product. The project involves the use of knowledge of Microprocessors and various sensors. The team consists of 5 members, all from Dept. of ECE of Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering. The project prototype was successfully demonstrated and funding received by Dept of Science and Technology.

Worked as Summer Intern in SBU Unit of Tata Elxsi. Worked on Microcontroller based interfacing of a GSM module for a project. The platform which I worked on for coding was based mainly in C language. The compiler used was CodeWarrior by Free Scale.

Team Arcis represents Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering in SAE Aero Design Competition in USA

Kalaasagar 2012 was the inter hostel fest of Dayananda Sagar Institutions.