Summary
Harini Elangovan is a Senior Engineer with five years of hands-on experience building embedded and system software for set-top boxes and RDK ecosystems, now contributing at Qualcomm from Chennai. She combines deep C/C++ and Yocto expertise with practical knowledge of Thunder, TR-181, SNMP, and device integrations across platforms like CAD15 and Xi6. At Tata Elxsi she led RDK Ops & GDO Dev Innovation, mentored multiple batches of freshers, and earned repeated hackathon and innovation awards for projects such as AOSP-in-RDK integration, hand-gesture control, and AI chatbot/GenAI prototypes. Her background spans telecom and research internships and leadership in social-impact hackathon projects (Smart Gloves and suicide-prevention app), reflecting a blend of technical rigor and human-centered problem solving. Actively pursuing certifications and nanodegrees in cloud-native architecture and AI product/ML engineering, she pairs system-level engineering with emerging ML/AI fluency. A persistent open-source enthusiast and communicator, she regularly shares talks on RDK, reinforcement learning, and computer vision.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Cloud Native Application Architecture Nanoderee, Cloud Native Application Architecture Nanoderee at Udacity
ST.Sebastian Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil, Hindi, German