Tara Achar Gopal
Bengaluru
Summary
Competent Functional safety professional with more than 10 years of rich experience in Automotive Functional Safety System development for Digital Cockpit System and RADAR sensor, Safety Software Development for Battery management system, Inverter system and overall, 12+ years' experience in Automotive embedded system.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Functional Safety Manager - Radar Sensor
Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd.
01.2022 - Current
- Actively engaged in customer interactions to clarify Top-Level Safety requirements and agree upon DIA.
- Ensuring implementation of all safety activities and work products for duration of the RADAR's product life cycle
- In charge of qualifying SW tools and SW components for any newly introduced tools as well as any new third-party SW integrated into the project
- Responsible for conducting functional safety checks on a regular basis to make sure that required safety work products are implemented
- Developed technical safety requirements for RADAR Sensor
- Involved in deriving FMEDA matrices for ASIL B system, review of FMEA(Sys), FTA safety analysis, HARA
- Involved in reviewing threat analysis and Risk assessment for Cyber security requirements for RADAR project.
FunctionalSafety Engineer - Digital Cockpit System
Harman international India
05.2020 - 01.2022
- Developed Functional safety requirements, technical safety requirements, technical safety concept for Digital cockpit system
- Involved in performing Safety Analysis like FMEA(Sys), FMEA (Using HAZOP for SW), FTA
- Actively Engaged in Customer interaction for clarification of customer safety requirements.
Specialist -Battery Management System(BMS)
Robert Bosch GmbH
01.2019 - 04.2020
- Developed software safety concepts and software for higher generation BMS system to eliminate/detect any latent error or single point error to achieve safety goal of BMS
- Involved in deriving SW safety concepts for monitoring of three parameters of Battery - Current, Voltage and Temperature for different customer projects.
Specialist -Battery management System
Robert Bosch - Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd, India
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Derived and developed functional safety software requirements, software safety concepts, architecture, and Software for 48V Battery management system for different projects
- Lead a team of 3-4 for development of Hardware monitoring package
- Hardware Monitoring includes RAM/ROM monitoring, ADC monitoring, CPU monitoring for the TC1727, ST device 3+ controllers to achieve safety goal of the 48V Battery management system
- Lead a team of 8-9 people for functional safety software development for BMS for Service $04 diagnostic service to comply with the OBD guideline
- With good analytical and problem-solving skills, helped team to meet the delivery deadlines and produce good quality work products
- Reduced the magnitude of bad code releases by successfully implementing thorough formal code review and design reviews, discussion of understanding during the beginning of the task
- Won Department award for the significant contribution for the BMS Project in the year 2017.
Senior Software Engineer - Inverter System
Robert Bosch - Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd, India
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Developed software for receiving and sending safety related signals via CAN, FLEXRAY; Voltage monitoring for Inverter system
- Involved in verifying and validating developed software using RTRT, TPT (SIL) and HIL
- Extensive knowledge in flashing and debugging on different controllers - Tricore TC1727, TC1797, Infineon and ST device 3+(Multicore controller).
Software Engineer -Inverter System
Robert Bosch GmbH
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Developed functional safety software for communication monitoring (for both protocol CAN and FLEXRAY) for different projects-BMW, VW
- Supported as technical coordinator in testing and development related activities between Robert Bosch GmbH and Bosch India.
Associate Software Engineer - Inverter System
Robert Bosch - Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd, India
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Mainly involved in Software development of Hybrid Powertrain system using ASCET as modelling tool and performed system testing on HIL using INCA tool.
Education
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Malnad College of Engineering
Hassan06.2010
Skills
- Standards: ASPICE, ISO2626 standards, SOTIF Standards ISO21448 and Cyber security standards ISO21434
- Machine Languages: Embedded C, Python, CAPL Scripting
- Tools used: DNG, Medini Analysis, IQRM, RHAPSODY, ETAS ASCET(Code generator), INCA(Measurement testing Tool), UDE (Universal Debugger), Canalyzer, Canoe, RTRT and TPT(Unit testing tool), ICDM and VCDM(Calibration management tool)
- Communication Protocols: CAN, SPI
- Microcontrollers and ASICs: TC1727, TC1797, Infineon and ST device 3(MDG1) controllers, CY327, Freescale MC33771
- Configuration Management Systems: IBM Jazz, SVN, ALM, IMS, Bosch Specific SCMs
- Languages: English, German(A2 completed)
Certification
- L1 Functional safety ISO26262 certified by TUV SUD
Timeline
Functional Safety Manager - Radar Sensor
Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd.
01.2022 - Current
FunctionalSafety Engineer - Digital Cockpit System
Harman international India
05.2020 - 01.2022
Specialist -Battery Management System(BMS)
Robert Bosch GmbH
01.2019 - 04.2020
Specialist -Battery management System
Robert Bosch - Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd, India
01.2016 - 01.2019
Senior Software Engineer - Inverter System
Robert Bosch - Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd, India
01.2013 - 01.2015
Software Engineer -Inverter System
Robert Bosch GmbH
01.2013 - 01.2014
Associate Software Engineer - Inverter System
Robert Bosch - Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd, India
01.2011 - 01.2013
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Malnad College of Engineering
- L1 Functional safety ISO26262 certified by TUV SUD
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