GOPALAKRISHNAN SUBRAMANIAM
Senior Technical Manager – Automotive & Connected Mobility
Coimbatore
Summary
Visionary project manager with 19+ years of experience in automotive manufacturing and industrial technology, including extensive leadership in connected vehicle ecosystems. Expert in delivering large-scale digital platforms and data-driven mobility solutions. Proven track record of managing global engineering teams across continents with hands-on experience in Mercedes-Benz Electronic Architecture (MBEA) programs and cloud-native mobility platforms.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
7
7
Certificates
Work History
Senior Technical Project Manager – Connected Car Platforms
Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - Current
- Lead Technical PM for 3 major E/E Architecture Programs: MBEA-M (Mid), MBEA-L (Large), and DCOM (Digital Core for Mobility), overseeing end-to-end delivery of connected car capabilities for next-generation passenger vehicle lines in automotive manufacturing.
- Manage a global engineering team of 101 specialists across locations in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Budapest (Hungary), and Stuttgart (Germany), ensuring seamless collaboration, technical alignment, and delivery cadence.
- Delivered the cloud-native backbone for vehicle data ingestion, processing 2+ million vehicle signals daily via scalable Kafka-based pipelines on Azure, enabling real-time analytics and digital twin simulations for industrial data processing.
- Drove the implementation of a unified digital platform integrating Telematics Control Units (TCU), in-vehicle infotainment (MBUX), and backend enterprise systems (SAP), creating a single source of truth for vehicle data in manufacturing operations.
- AI/ML adoption for predictive maintenance and personalized customer experiences, deploying models that reduced warranty-related alerts by 22% and increased customer engagement scores through predictive analytics.
- Established cybersecurity governance for connected vehicle systems, ensuring compliance with UN R155 (Cybersecurity) and R156 (Software Update) regulations across the platform stack.
- Partnered with key technology vendors including Mindgrove (RISC-V SoCs) and Tacton (CPQ) key focus areas include AI, IoT, sensors, and advanced electronics, on simulation ecosystems to validate autonomous functions and vehicle dynamics within digital twin environments before physical prototyping.
- Implemented a composable service architecture, designing reusable data objects and microservices for features like Over-the-Air (OTA) updates, remote diagnostics, and dynamic vehicle personalization.
- DAIMLER AG (Mercedes-Benz Group)
Technical Project Manager – Power Steering
Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
02.2015 - 12.2020
- Technical Project Leadership & Cross-Functional Coordination
- Led end-to-end technical delivery of Volkswagen's PreSuma and 100 FIT E/E steering systems, managing cross-functional engineering teams across software, hardware, and validation to ensure on-time integration into vehicle architectures.
- E/E Architecture & System Integration
- Architected and oversaw the integration of electronic control units (ECUs), sensor networks, and steering algorithms into Volkswagen's vehicle E/E architecture, ensuring compliance with automotive standards (AUTOSAR, ISO 26262) and interoperability with broader vehicle systems.
- Quality Assurance & Validation Governance
- Established and enforced multi-level validation protocols for steering system software and hardware, implementing rigorous testing frameworks that reduced post-production issues by 40% across two major project launches.
- Stakeholder Management & Strategic Roadmapping
- Collaborated with Volkswagen engineering leadership, suppliers, and internal teams to align technical execution with product strategy, managing budgets exceeding €15M and adapting project roadmaps based on evolving vehicle program requirements.
- Volkswagen Group
Project Architect – Software solutions
Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
09.2012 - 02.2015
- Platform Architecture & Technical Roadmapping
- Designed and implemented scalable embedded software architectures for 100 FIT and 700 FIT power steering platforms, translating Volkswagen's business requirements into technical specifications that enhanced system performance by 40% and established platform-wide design patterns for future vehicle variants.
- Safety-Critical System Compliance & Governance
- Led comprehensive safety analysis including Control Flow, Data Flow, and Dependent Failure Analysis (SA / DFA) per ISO 26262 standards, resolving critical safety violations with OEM partners and establishing documentation standards that ensured compliance across 15+ cross-functional engineering teams.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Technical Leadership
- Collaborated with OEMs, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to drive architectural alignment across power steering platforms, conducting design reviews and code reviews that reduced technical debt by 30% and improved system stability across 2 million+ vehicle deployments annually.
- Technical Strategy & Knowledge Management
- Developed application architecture strategy specifically aligned with Volkswagen's business goals, creating visual representations of software architecture for stakeholder presentation and establishing knowledge-sharing frameworks that accelerated project onboarding by 50% for new engineering teams.
- Volkswagen Group
Team Leader
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS)
08.2010 - 08.2012
Software Engineer
CSC -Computer Science Corporation
04.2008 - 08.2010
Software Engineer
Palpap Ichinichi Software International Limited
05.2006 - 04.2008
Education
MCA - Master of computer applications
Karpagam college of Engineering
Coimbatore01.2006
B.Sc. - Computer Science
VLB college of Arts and Science
Coimbatore01.2003
Skills
Industrial & Manufacturing Tech: IIoT Platforms MES/ERP Integration (SAP) PLM Systems Digital Twins Predictive Maintenance Supply Chain AnalyticsConnected Car Tech: AUTOSAR Adaptive, SOME/IP, MQTT, OTA Update Servers, Telematics SDKs, Vehicle APIsCloud & Data: Azure IoT Core, Kinesis, MSK (Kafka), Gluon (Spark), Timestream, Grafana, Azure Digital TwinsAI/ML in Industrial Context: Predictive Failure Analytics, Computer Vision for Quality Control, Driver/Operator Behavior ModelingDevelopment & Tools: GitLab CI/CD, JIRA/Confluence, Docker/Kubernetes, ASPICE, Functional Safety (ISO 26262)Vendor Ecosystems: AWS, Azure, dSPACE
Certification
PMP certified (Project Management Professional) from PMI
Additional Information
- CSR contribution & activities (Organization Level) since 2019
- Organized a company-wide charity run – in Nov’2022 (Namma Kovai Day)
Timeline
Senior Technical Project Manager – Connected Car Platforms
Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - Current
Technical Project Manager – Power Steering
Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
02.2015 - 12.2020
Project Architect – Software solutions
Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
09.2012 - 02.2015
Team Leader
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS)
08.2010 - 08.2012
Software Engineer
CSC -Computer Science Corporation
04.2008 - 08.2010
Software Engineer
Palpap Ichinichi Software International Limited
05.2006 - 04.2008
B.Sc. - Computer Science
VLB college of Arts and Science
MCA - Master of computer applications
Karpagam college of Engineering
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Leadership & Strategy: Global Team Leadership (100+ Engineers)
- Strategic Roadmapping for E/E Architectures
- Cross-Functional & Cross-Border Collaboration
- Vendor & OEM Partnership Management
- Platform-as-a-Product Mindset
- Talent Development & Organizational Scalability
- Connected Car & Automotive Digital: Mercedes-Benz E/E Architecture (MBEA)
- Connected Vehicle Platforms
- Telematics & OTA Updates
- Vehicle-to-Cloud (V2C) Data Pipelines
- Digital Twin for Vehicle Fleet
- Cybersecurity (UN R155/R156)
- Manufacturing & Industrial Technology: IIoT & Industrial Data Platforms
- MES/ERP Integration (SAP)
- PLM Systems
- Digital Twin Implementation
- Predictive Maintenance
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Technical Expertise: Cloud-Native Architecture (Azure)
- Microservices
- Real-Time Data Streaming (Kafka, Spark)
- AI/ML for Predictive Analytics
- DevOps/CI/CD for Industrial Software
- Project & Delivery: Senior Technical Project Management
- Agile/SAFe at Scale
- Budget & Resource Management
- Risk Mitigation in Automotive SOP
- Stakeholder Alignment from Engineering to Board Level