Bilal Qamar
Senior Technical Program Manager at SoundHound AI
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBilal Qamar is a Senior Technical Program Manager with eight years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience, now driving complex AI and automotive initiatives at SoundHound AI. He has led multi-disciplinary teams across ADAS simulation, IoT, robotics and cellular modem firmware, blending firmware-level expertise with program-level execution. At AAI he oversaw six to seven teams delivering ADAS simulation software, and at Xavor he managed an end-to-end robot development program including manufacturing in China. His earlier work at u-blox involved low-level bring-up on ARM Cortex platforms and contributions to the widely used Arm Mbed OS, where he fixed battery charger and I2C issues—evidence of his comfort in both systems and code. A Certified Scrum Master, Bilal combines pragmatic agile facilitation with technical credibility to remove blockers and accelerate delivery. Based in Ottawa, he’s known for turning embedded constraints into product momentum and for crossing the firmware-to-program management divide.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Levels, Science, Advanced Levels, Science at University of CambridgeBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English
Github Skills (9)
i2c10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
stm9
c119
c179
iot9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ARMmbed/mbed-os
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bilal contributed to the Arm Mbed OS project by addressing battery charger voltage issues and improving I2C communication within the context of a UBLOX C030 device. This involved modifying C++ and C code files, specifically adjusting I2C calls and implementing I2C read/write functions. The user also made changes to header files, adding licensing information and deprecated warnings, likely for maintenance and code quality purposes. Additionally, the user updated the cellular context to poll activation status.
internet-of-thingsmbedoperating-system
fahim-ublox/mbed-os
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
ARM mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
arminternet-of-thingsmbedoperating-system
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