About

Anusha Vardhineni is a highly skilled Sr. Lead Engineer at Qualcomm with over 6 years of experience in the GNSS domain. She has worked on complete end-to-end GNSS products/receivers with major activities in positioning engine, database management, GNSS time collection and maintenance, Kalman filtering algorithms, and more. Anusha has been involved in every phase of SDLC and has implemented programs written in ‘C’ and assembly language, using ARM processor. She has also worked on multi-constellation firmware development on ARM7TDMI (16-bit fixed-point DSP) platforms, ARM 9, and Ensilica processor. Anusha has hands-on knowledge of DSP development tools like Keil, Eclipse IDE, and exposure to embedded system and RTOS fundamentals, hardware handshaking, GNSS fundamentals, signal processing, and software development methodologies. She has experience on many embedded standard protocols like SPI, I2C, UART, Interrupt controller, DMA, USB, and Boot controller, and has excellent firmware debugging capability. Anusha is skilled in defining and developing test ware such as test cases and test scenarios as per DO-178B Standard. She also possesses excellent documentation skills. Before joining Qualcomm, Anusha worked at Intel as a GNSS PE R&D Engineer. At Intel, she supported XOF Creator/Encoder, added new API’s to support interface with upper layers, worked on populating SBAS Visibility list for cross-correlation mitigation at ME, SV Navigation Message Source tracking, Iono & Tropo model divergence investigations at low elevation angles, Replay and Measurement Error Tool Support, MTBF Validation Support, and field test analysis and bug fixing in PE code. Anusha has also worked as a Sr. Systems Engineer at Accord Software & Systems, where she independently handled the development of a satellite database manager for all constellations, developed algorithms for Viterbi Decoder, computed pseudo-ranges and satellite position information from Ephemeris, and worked on positioning algorithms such as Least Square and Kalman Filtering. Anusha holds a B.E in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from East Point College of Engineering and Technology and an M.Tech in Embedded Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. She is a skilled Senior Software Engineer with a relevant experience of 6.68 years.