Ashwin Karemore is a Software Architect with 8 years of hands-on experience building automotive infotainment and connectivity systems, currently shaping in-vehicle software at Valeo. He spent seven years at Ford and previously contributed to HARMAN and KPIT, progressing from embedded Qt and middleware C++ development to leading architectural decisions. Ashwin has practical expertise in unit testing and backend QA for open projects like SmartDeviceLink’s sdl_core, improving test coverage and RPC plugin logic—an indicator of his focus on reliable, maintainable systems. Based in Cologne with an academic foundation in electronics and an MTech in Software Systems, he blends low-level embedded know-how with system-level design. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, often surfacing subtle test and integration gaps before they affect production.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech Software Systems , Master of Technology - MTech Software Systems at BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes
Bachelor's Degree Electronics & Telecommuncation, Bachelor's Degree Electronics & Telecommuncation at GH Raisoni College of Engineering
SmartDeviceLink In-Vehicle Software and Sample HMI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Ashwin primarily focused on modifying and improving existing unit tests (UT) within the project. Their commits demonstrate updates to UTs, including adjustments to cover new code paths and account for changes like image verification removal. They also added new UTs to address warnings. Furthermore, they touched on file paths and logic within the RPC plugin of the SDL core.
Tracking and proposing changes to SDL's public APIs.
Contributions:104 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
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