Naveen Ponnusamy
Senior Staff Engineer Manager at Qualcomm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNaveen Ponnusamy is a Senior Staff Engineering Manager with 12+ years of deep systems and multimedia expertise, currently leading HTP Systems and previously serving as AI SW Lead at Qualcomm. He has driven pre-silicon video and XR video architectures, Android media integration, and NPU software features that are part of platforms powering a billion devices. Naveen combines low-level optimization experience across Arm Cortex-A, x86, mobile GPUs, DSPs and HW accelerators with practical delivery—shipping codec and power optimizations used by major device makers and streaming platforms. He founded and ran a BU-wide knowledge-sharing forum, mentors engineers, and routinely bridges customer-facing work with internal architecture decisions. Beyond his day job he pursues distributed/cloud computing and ML through hobby projects and courses, and has a track record of turning prototypes (e.g., GPU-accelerated decoders, camera/OpenCV apps) into measurable product wins.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NusantaraProject-ROM/android_external_libhevc
Oct 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:610 commits in 3 years 7 months
CyanogenMod/android_external_libavc
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
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