Ford Motor Company
For four years, I built products at Ford, rotating through projects on clean energy and connected cars. I was a junior engineer at the time and so thankful for the team I met with.
A few of my favorite projects I had the chance to be part of below:
Products
2005 Hybrid Escape (first hybrid SUV)
2006 Hydrogen Focus (one of the first hydrogen cars)
Scaling Ford China (an early employee in the new Ford China operation, based in Shanghai)
Patents
System and method for obtaining, in a vehicle, information concerning points of interest
To obtain point of interest information in a vicinity of a vehicle, the vehicle selects a reference point away from the current location of the vehicle. A region is formed, including the current location of the vehicle, based on the reference point. Points of interest falling within the region are communicated to the vehicle. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8892351B2/en?inventor=Hari+Srinivasan
Software architecture for developing in-vehicle software applications
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a software architecture encoded on a computer readable medium is disclosed. The software architecture can be utilized for developing in-vehicle software applications for installation and execution on an in-vehicle computer system. The software architecture includes a number of vehicle application program interfaces (APIs) for accessing vehicles systems or data and for developing in-vehicle software applications; and a number of policy restrictions underlying the vehicle APIs for restricting the level of access to vehicle systems and data while the in-vehicle software application is being developed. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9081648B2/en?inventor=Hari+Srinivasan