Chezhyan Paneerselvam

Chezhyan Paneerselvam is the Co-Founder of vlinder. Chezhyan has over 6 years of experience in managing embedded hardware, firmware, and system level projects. Prior to joining vlinder, they worked as a Technical Program Manager at Mindteck for over 6 years. Chezhyan has successfully managed multiple projects in different modes (Fixed cost, Time and Material and Staff augmentation mode). Some of the consumer and industrial products they have designed and developed are:

• Smart Grid project for Utility involving Smart Meters, Data Concentrating Unit and Meter Data Management Software

• Smart Light with Sun Rise and Sun Set simulation, DAB+FM, MP3 with SD Card and USB Play

• RF retrofitted Radio Module for water meters including design and production setup for 1M+ volumes

• Modular Laptop with USB Type ‘C’ interfaces – Has various modules – Screen Module, Camera Module, Battery Module, Hub Module and Compute Module

• Complete product design for Industrial controller and GC products including hardware, firmware and mechanical design

• Hardware design for USB Protocol Analyzer – hardware design with COM Express module, Stratix 4 FPGA, and DDR3 SODIMM

• Modbus firmware projects for Gas Analyzers – Firmware development for multiple legacy Gas Analyzers.

• Continuous Emission Monitoring system with PC Application to store all analyzer data

• POS device based on TI Sitara – AM3354 processor

Key Achievements

• Handling multiple Clients, Projects, Teams and Vendors – Project Managers, Leads, Hardware engineers, Firmware Engineers, Mechanical engineers, Layout engineers and Technicians

• Collaborate with management team and successfully achieve and maintain various management objectives – GM > 40%, SV < 8%, CMMI Certification, CSAT > 8

• Able to successfully Deliver keeping Scope, Time and Cost under control

• Effective Team Management – Able to maintain attrition less than 5% during my execution by effectively applying PMP skills

• Effective Vendor Management – Right from evaluation, engagement and control – Lead to successful delivery

Chezhyan Paneerselvam reports to Malini Srinivasan, Founder. Some of their coworkers include Bharani Muthuvel - Co-Founder, Business Strategy, Gururaja UN - Co-Founder, Platform & Integration, and Kiran C - Backend Developer.