About Me
About Me
Automotive Digital Cockpit & AI Leader · Pune, India
I am an automotive architecture and AI transformation leader with 21+ years across embedded systems, digital cockpit and connected-vehicle platforms. My career spans hands-on DSP and C/C++ development, Android/Linux IVI delivery, and global architecture leadership for platforms and capabilities delivered to Stellantis, Mitsubishi/Melco and Audi programs.
As AI Leader for Forvia's Automotive Business Group since April 2025, I lead a six-person India AI team and guide GenAI transformation from use-case qualification through pilots and deployment planning. I work with 200+ global colleagues across engineering, operations and HR on practical AI adoption.
Selected Impact
- Directly led 30+ architects within a 100+ person global architecture ecosystem, with three Stellantis IVI and headless-IVI programs delivered and in market.
- Led a GenAI requirements-engineering pilot with 20+ global engineers. Participants reported 20% quality improvement and approximately 30% time reduction; the capability is moving toward deployment.
- Developed KnowTrack, using Sinequa and connectors to enable chat across Confluence, SharePoint, AWM and Jira engineering and process sources.
- Delivered an international keynote on AI integration in secure SDV development at Automotive Cyber Security, Connectivity & SDV Week, Berlin (2025).
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Skills & Expertise
Core Competencies
- Embedded Systems
- DSP
- Generative AI
- LLMs
- Embedded C/C++
- Python
- Digital Cockpit and Connected-Vehicle Architecture
- SoC/MCU Selection and HW/SW Partitioning
- Customer Workshops and Technical Proposals
- ASPICE SWE.2
- RAG and Connected Knowledge Systems
- AI Adoption and Governance
- CI/CD
Hardware Platforms
- TCC 803x/805x
- NXP iMXRT117x
- NXP i.MX6
- ADSP BlackFin/SHARC
- TI Jacinto 4/6
Operating Systems
- Android
- Linux
- FreeRTOS
- AUTOSAR
AI and Knowledge Systems
- LangChain and LlamaIndex
- Azure AI Studio, Hugging Face and Ollama
- Chroma Vector Database and Sinequa
- MLOps
Education & Certifications
- Chief Technology Officer Executive Programme - IIT Kanpur (Apr-Dec 2025)
- M.Tech., Data Science and Engineering - BITS Pilani (2020-2022)
- Bachelor of Eng, Electronics & Comm. - RGPV, Bhopal (2000-2004)
- Generative AI for Software Dev - Coursera (Oct 2024)
- Generative AI with LLMs - DeepLearning.ai (Jul 2023)
- Deep Learning Specialization - Coursera (Nov 2021)
- Machine Learning - Coursera (Jul 2018)
Contact
abhinema@gmail.com · +91-9657 700 717
