About

Shivakumar Bhadrakali is a highly experienced Functional Safety Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India with over 7 years of relevant experience in the Embedded Electronics and Automotive Electronics domain. He holds a Master's degree in Digital Communication and Networking from KLS GIT, Belagavi, and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from KLE College of Engineering and Technology, Belagavi. Shivakumar has worked as a Functional Safety Engineer for Volvo and Geely project "Active Safety Domain Master," where he gained extensive knowledge of FuSa work products such as FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, FMECA, HARA, Safety Goal, Safety Plan, and analyzing FSR followed by TSR, SSR & HSR. He has also worked as a Hardware Design and Test Engineer for Bosch GPS-GSM based Vehicle Tracking & Diagnostic System, where he gained knowledge of schematic design and hardware prototype design testing and conducting certifications from TUV & ARAI. Shivakumar's skills include programming and scripting languages such as C, CAPL, Python, and JAVA scripting know-how. He is also well-versed in communication protocols such as UART, RS232, I2C, SPI, GSM, GPS, OBD, CAN, UDS, CAN FD, Flex ray, and Ethernet. He has experience using tools such as CANalyser, CAN Stress, Pycharm, Altium, Proteus 8, IQRM 7 Pro, Item Toolkit, Medini Know How, Enterprise Architecture, and WinIDEA. He is also familiar with configuration tools such as IBM Rational DOORS, PTC, PLM, and JIRA. Shivakumar has worked with various boards and microcontrollers such as ARM Cortex M3, Arduino, 8051, SIM800 SimCom, and STN1110 CAN controller. He has experience in design analysis, including FMEA, FMECA, FTA, FMEDA, and DFA analysis, and is well-versed in ISO STD such as ISO-26262 and ISO-14229. He has also worked on system testing, hardware testing, fault injection testing, HIL testing, and has knowledge of EMI EMC certification and testing. In his previous roles, Shivakumar has worked as a Functional Safety Engineer for GKN Automotive and a Senior Software Engineer for Veoneer, where he worked on projects such as Active Safety Domain Master and Airbag Control Unit. He was responsible for