Chirag Panchal

chiragpanchal3004@gmail.com

+91 8460641622
Electronics Engineer
Chennai/Vadodara, 600041/390009
4.5+ years of core experience in Electronic Hardware
Design, Electronic System Integration, Firmware 30 April, 1992
Development, Hardware & Firmware Architecture
Design, Production Support, Team coordination, Agile linkedin.com/in/chirag-panchal-4152b884
way of working

WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS

Intern to Sr. Engineer Scrum: White Board, JIRA, Confluence
Xylem Water Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (R&D)
07/2015 – 06/2019 VADODARA, INDIA ECAD: Altium/OrCAD/KiCAD
B.Tech Internship -Dec 2013 to April 2014, M.Tech Internship - July 2015 to May 2016, Software
Engineer Contract - June 2016 to Dec 2016, Embedded Hardware & Application Engineer - Jan
2017 to Feb 2018, Sr. Engineer - March 2018 to July 2019 Simulation: Pspice/Multisim

Led the value optimized Hardware/Firmware Design (new component selection

and PCB redesign) activity to reduce the cost of product already available in Controllers: ARM Cortex M, STM32F/L,
market. BlueNRG-2, dsPIC33, PIC16/18F, Atmel-SAM4E,
Nuvoton N76E003, LoRa(Murata), WiFi(telit)
Bluetooth/GPS based battery operated hand held remote tracker (HW) designed Modules
(6 layer PCB) with power calculation/integrity to run battery at least 24 hrs &
delivered with complete mechanics integrated. Involved in membrane keypad
design activities. Firmware IDE: Keil, MPLAB-X, mbed, GCC/gedit

Bluetooth based slave device (HW) designed (schematic) & delivered.

Analog: Op-Amps, Signal Conditioning, Filters,
Capacitive sensing based water level sensing & pump controlling application LDO, DC-DC Converters design, Power
(HW/FW) designed (2 layer PCB) & delivered with complete mechanics integrated. Calculations, Power Integrity, Signal Integrity
IoT-WiFi based pump monitoring(HW/FW) designed(4 layer PCB) and tested with
temperature profiles on hardware. Compatible IoT device with Variable frequency HW Interfaces: V Buffers, Signal Converters,
drive to capture current/voltage/error data from drive to IoT device to cloud Max232/485, Gates, Graphics LCD, GPS
Designed OEM Hardware (2 layer PCB) of Vending machine application based on module, Bluetooth SoC/module, USB to UART
microdosing 4 nos. of pumps.
Hall effect based sensor signal conditioning circuit(OpAmp based) designed. HW/FW Communication Wired:
Firmware developed on 8 bit controller to receive I2C data packets from RS232/RS485(UART), I2C, SPI, GPIO
Electromagnetic field based gesture sensing IC - MGC3130, Application developed
to control actuators on the same platform. PoC Delivered HW/FW Communication Wireless: LoRa, WiFi,
NB-IoT(4G), GSM(2G)

Research Engineer - Digital & Wireless Sensors Production: Component Selection, BoM
Saint-Gobain India Pvt. Ltd. (R&D) Preparation, EMS Supplier Relation, BoM
07/2019 – Present CHENNAI, INDIA Revision Management
WiFi module integration with acc+gyro sensors to measure x-y-z movement.
Testing: Unit, Integration, Product life cycle

Electronic Designer/Developer Instruments: Mixed Signal Oscilloscope,

Outside Projects Current Prob, Logic Analyzer, Protocol
Non Profit Research Activity Support Analyzer, Digital Multimeter, Soldering Station
LoRa (868 MHz) based Vibration, Temperature, Pulse sensor monitoring device
Hardware designed (4 layer PCB) & firmware developed for cattle health
monitoring systems. LANGUAGES
English
CERTIFICATES
Agile Scrum Foundation (09/2016) Hindi
2 days training on Agile based methodology to speedup and manage the product development
activities - by EXIN
Gujarati

EDUCATION
Marathi
M. Tech.
Vellore Institute of Technology
07/2014 – 05/2016 CHENNAI, INDIA
Embedded Systems INTERESTS
Device Making Hobbyist
B. Tech.
Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology Teaching Electronics Music Movies
07/2010 – 05/2014 NADIAD, INDIA
Electronics & Communcations