Summary
Bhalchandra Gajare is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building audio, speech, and voice-activation systems for mobile and embedded platforms. He currently works on Speech and Google Assistant projects at Google, after a decade at Qualcomm where he led Linux audio driver development and brought voice-activation features from concept to commercialization for Snapdragon chipsets. Comfortable across low-level driver code, system integration, and product delivery, he has a strong academic foundation with an MS in Computer Networks and Distributed Computing from UC Irvine. Based in San Diego, he blends pragmatic engineering with a passion for cutting-edge voice tech, and has a track record of creating tooling and simulators early in his career that sped up development and testing cycles. Notably, his background spans both chipset-level security and consumer-facing assistant features, giving him rare end-to-end expertise in the voice stack.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at RV College Of Engineering
University of California, Irvine