Sadasivam Periyasamy

• Expert Recognition: Appointed as Senior Expert for "Automotive Communication and Network Security Protocols"; filed 3 patents with the UK Intellectual Property Office (GB Region).
• Thought Leadership: Invited speaker at the SDV & AI Conference in Michigan, presenting on "Cybersecurity in the Era of SDV: Risks, Challenges, and Strategic Opportunities."
• SDV Security Architecture: Designed the vehicle-level security framework and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for a major German OEM’s truck electrical/electronic (E/E) systems.
• Engineered a multi-layer security separation concept to isolate hardware, software, and communication interfaces; developed security architectures for plug-and-play ECUs in zonal SDV platforms to enhance system integrity.
• Formulated system, software, functional, and physical architecture for AI-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), optimizing model deployment across SoC CPUs and AI accelerators to improve threat detection effectiveness.
• Directed privacy and AI compliance strategy for next-generation In-Cabin Sensing innovation project, leading cross-functional teams to ensure regulatory adherence and project success.
• Oct 2023 - PRESENT, AUMOVIO Singapore Pvt Ltd, SINGAPORE

• People Leadership: Managed disciplinary processes for team of 3 Technical Project Leads (TPLs) overseeing high-value quotation phases, ensuring compliance and team cohesion.
• Architecture Design: Developed initial system, software, safety, and security architecture concepts for Cross-Domain Zone controllers, delivering winning technical proposals to global OEMs.
• Software Architecture: Owned Gateway software architecture for a major European OEM HPC project and successfully cleared external ASPICE audits.
• Technical Governance: Acted as Expert Reviewer and Approver for Software and System architecture on the Toyota Gateway Project.
• Regional Expertise: Recognized as Continental Global Expert in "System Architecture Gateway" and led Asia operations for FOTA, Classic AUTOSAR COM stack, and Security.
• Coaching & Mentorship: Trained Product Owners on advanced routing functions and evaluated A3 structured problem-solving initiatives, enhancing team capability.
• JAN 2020 - SEP 2023, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE Pvt Ltd, SINGAPORE

• Team Management: Led and managed a 7-member system engineering team, driving resource allocation, performance evaluations, and employee career development dialogues.
• R&D Estimation: Managed financial and technical planning by accurately estimating R&D engineering efforts required for complex system engineering projects.
• Technical Acquisition: Led analysis of multi-domain RFI requirements for SAIC HPC acquisition, ensuring alignment across functional, safety, and security domains.
• Architecture Proposals: Developed and presented initial system, software, safety, and security architecture concepts in Technical Addendum submissions to OEM executives.
• Customer Collaboration: Facilitated technical workshops with customers to collaboratively refine and finalize system requirement specifications throughout RFI phases.
• Project Governance: Prepared and delivered engineering work products to successfully clear stringent G20 quality gate reviews
• JAN 2018 - DEC 2019, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE Pvt Ltd, SINGAPORE

• Team Leadership: Led a 7-member cross-functional engineering team (6 Software Developers, 1 Architect) for the Toyota Gateway and Gen-2 Gateway product lines.
• Project Management: Managed full lifecycle software development schedules, effort estimation, and project tracking to meet tight customer delivery milestones.
• Cross-Discipline Alignment: Served as primary interface for customer requirement baselines, software design reviews, and final deliverables, ensuring alignment with manufacturing objectives.
• Technical Risk Analysis: Performed microcontroller errata analysis and structured root-cause analysis on customer defects to evaluate vehicle-level and system-level impacts.
• Technical Risk Analysis: Conducted microcontroller errata analysis and structured root-cause analysis on customer defects, assessing impacts on vehicle-level and system-level functionality.
• Agile Governance: Implemented Scrum and Kanban frameworks, collaborating as review partner for system/software requirements and architectural designs, enhancing project alignment and delivery.
• DEC 2014 - DEC 2017, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE Pvt Ltd, SINGAPORE

• Full-lifecycle MCAL development: Gathered stakeholder requirements, estimated efforts, and managed software release schedules for low-level microcontroller abstraction layer (MCAL) device drivers, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with powertrain application needs.
• Driver Architecture: Developed and deployed core Microcontroller, Communication, and I/O drivers (WDT, SCH, LIN, SENT, ATD) for Infineon (TC17XX, TC2XX Aurix) and Freescale (MPC55XX, MPC56XX) architectures.
• Multicore Coherency: Engineered Multicore Support Functions (MCSF) and an optimized Assembly-level ATOMIC library to ensure data consistency and semaphore-based access control across multicore ECUs.
• AUTOSAR Compliance: Executed AUTOSAR compliance testing for Renesas controllers across CAN, ADC, RAMTEST, Watchdog, and Flash driver modules.
• Validation & risk mitigation: Conducted controller/compiler validations, reviewed requirement/test specifications, and performed microcontroller errata impact analysis and root-cause analysis (RCA) for defects to enhance product reliability.
• Mentored junior engineers with 2–4 years of experience and managed workload distribution.
• Team Mentorship & Training: Mentored junior engineers (2–4 years experience), managed workload distribution, and served as the site trainer for MKS and UML (Artisan Studio) tools.
• SEP 2012 - SEP 2014, PERMANENT EMPLOYEE OF CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE, BANGALORE

• MCAL Driver Development: Developed and optimized low-level Microcontroller, Communication, and I/O drivers (WDT, SCH, LIN, SENT) for Infineon (TC17XX, TC2XX) and Freescale (MPC55XX, MPC56XX) silicon families.
• Engineered processor-independent I/O scheduling driver (SCH) supporting recurring (1ms–1000ms) and event-based (FlexRay) tasks with automated ROM-to-RAM package extraction, enhancing task management efficiency.
• Multicore Data Coherency: Developed Multicore Support Functions (MCSF) utilizing semaphore mechanisms to maintain reading and writing data integrity across Aurix TC2XX multi-core ECUs.
• Authored optimized assembly-code ATOMIC library for Freescale MPC5674 processors to ensure thread-safe shared variable access and built custom bit-manipulation library (BITOP) for improved operation performance.
• Implemented SAE J2716 SENT protocol driver to decode pulse-width modulated (PWM) data nibbles from intelligent pressure and temperature sensors, facilitating accurate data interpretation.
• SEP 2011 - AUG 2012, PAYROLL OF ATOS INFORMATION SYSTEM LIMITED BUT WORKING FOR CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE AS A SERVICE PROVIDER

• Calibration & Powertrain Drivers: Developed memory-redirection calibration drivers (CAL) supporting ETAS devices (INTRAM/EXTRAM) and engineered Angle Time Drivers (ATD) for engine crank/cam signal synchronization.
• Low-Level Libraries: Implemented specialized decompression libraries (ZLIB) to execute ROM-compressed code optimization on Freescale MPC56XX and Infineon TC17XX microcontrollers.
• Validation & Testing: Conducted rigorous controller, compiler, and AUTOSAR compliance testing for Renesas controllers covering CAN, ADC, RAMTEST, Watchdog, and Flash modules.
• Defect & Risk Mitigation: Conducted root-cause analysis (RCA) for complex driver defects and assessed system-level software impacts from silicon vendor microcontroller errata releases.
• Quality Assurance: Engaged in multi-disciplinary reviews of requirements, design, code, and test specifications for various device driver software modules.
• Site Training & Mentorship: Trained Bangalore location staff on MKS and UML (Artisan Studio) engineering tools and mentored junior developers in task execution.
• JULY 2008 - AUG 2011, PAYROLL OF SIEMENS INFORMATION SYSTEM LIMITED BUT WORKED FOR CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE AS A SERVICE PROVIDER

• Industrial Automation: Designed and developed embedded hardware and software systems for industrial automation applications, enhancing system reliability and performance.
• CNC Motion Control: Co-developed product for controlling 4-axis Bosch Rexroth CNC machines in automotive gear lever manufacturing, ensuring precise motor rotation through processing standard G-codes.
• Process Automation: Engineered embedded software for industrial pressure controllers, improving regulation of powder coating application processes.
• JUNE 2006 - APR 2008: U4E SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS PVT LTD, Bangalore.

• Anna University
• GPA: 70.12%

GPA: 85.00%