About

Kevin Paul is a Senior Staff Engineer at Ignitarium Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd with over 12 years of experience in Embedded Software Development. He has a thorough understanding of Android Treble Architecture, codec2 framework, HIDL, Binder, and has worked on the latest version of Android Source drop. Kevin has designed and developed media trick mode features for GStreamer based multimedia framework and enhanced media format containers like AVI, MP4 to work on various platforms. He has experience on Android Multimedia Frameworks like Stagefright, NuPlayer, Google TV Proprietor Player, and very good knowledge on OpenMax-IL implementation and integration of Audio HAL with Android. Kevin has worked on developing NN based solutions for Audio/Speech Applications and has experience on Widevine Digital Rights Media (DRM) Integration and RTSP Integration on Android Google TV. He has spent 3 years of work experience in Multimedia Framework development for Bluray & DTV, including porting and optimization of Audio Codec’s, Audio Post Processing modules like Downmixer, Mixer, SRC, etc. Kevin has worked in Japan as an Onsite Engineer at NECEL (Now Renesas Electronics), Tamagawa, Tokyo, and in Korea as an Onsite Engineer at LG Electronics, Seoul. At Ignitarium, Kevin is currently working on developing solutions using Machine Learning focusing on Audio/Speech related applications. He has developed a solution for Real-time Noise Suppression, Keyword Spotting in Noisy Environment, and Voice Activity Detection. Kevin is also working on Dolby Vision integration on Android 11 with a thorough understanding of Multimedia Framework and Google Codec2 framework. He has developed HIDL interface for Vendor service created and deconstructed the Vendor folder for AOSP code. Kevin has previously worked as a Program Manager and Project Manager at L&T, handling multiple projects on Signal Processing, Embedded, GStreamer, and Android. He managed a team of 25 members spanning 4 projects running at a time, prepared proposals, requirement and design documentation, and conducted stand-up meetings, weekly customer meetings, and senior management meetings. He was also part of the Young Leadership Program and underwent a year-long training in Program Management, Financials, Team Building, etc. Kevin holds a degree from Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Girinagar, and has expertise in Android, Integration, Sentiment Analysis, ML, Software Engineer, Test, Infra, and Product Manager. With 15.87 years of relevant