Engineer · Trivandrum, India
Previously London, UK · Yokohama, Japan
Test lead, automation builder and a restless thinker. I work on automotive software, cybersecurity and the frameworks that verify them — and I write about what I learn along the way.
A Python + Robot Framework platform that can connect to almost any device and test at SWE.5, SWE.6 and SYS.5 levels. Built on open source, modular by design — so it scales, stays effective and costs far less to run.
Generating test cases from SYS requirements, and test scripts from those cases — in bulk, dynamically, with minimal human intervention. People review and decide; the machine does the repetition.
Leading a team moving legacy test code from multiple languages into Python and Robot scripts — for better reuse of data, logic and people's time.
Test lead for security testing of multiple ECU projects for different OEMs at Visteon — fuzzing, ISO/SAE 21434 aligned verification.
Led software qualification testing and prepared the project for — and achieved — an ASPICE Level 3 audit.
Ethernet, SOME/IP, UDS, DoIP and AVB message control and monitoring for system, integration and fuzz testing of an audio amplifier ECU. Team of 7+, 15+ drivers and modules, fully ASPICE L3.
Vulnerability and attack-pattern database aligned with PSIRT, CWE and CVE; Python automation for handling weaknesses at scale; SAST/DAST tooling research.
Ethernet car-simulation and test environment for a high-resolution ADAS LiDAR ECU — DoIP/UDS diagnostics, XCP, EOL testing.
Module lead for a DoIP/UDP stack, and architect of a reusable automated UDS / network-management test platform for 4–12 channel audio ECUs.
Walks, light and small things — from Japan and the UK. All photographs © Ajin V W.
Ideas, things I'm learning, and the occasional philosophy.
“Make the change that you want to see in the world.”
I've spent over a decade in automotive software — from writing AUTOSAR stacks and diagnostics, to leading test teams across the UK, Japan and India, to building the automation that lets those teams move faster.
I'm hardworking, solution-oriented, and a little obsessed with root causes. I like details, and I like it when the details add up to something that works.
Away from the bench I think about how systems — technical and human — fail, learn and improve. That's what this site is for.
M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering, Kerala University · IEEE-published · Two-time Bravo award winner at Tata Elxsi.
Off the clock Hiking · Movies · Photography
Publications
Work published with IEEE, 2016.