Gireesan Namboothiri P is working on DiGiSENSE connected vehicles platform of Mahindra at Mahindra Research for past one year. From 2010 to 2016, he was working as Specialist with Bosch, Bangalore on Open Source Technologies. The focus at Bosch was on connected vehicles, vehicle data gathering and quick prototyping using open source technologies. Prior to joining Bosch; he has done his MS in Wireless Sensor Networks at Department of Computer Science; IIT Madras. He also worked as a faculty for around 3.5 years after his Bachelors degree in Information Technology from Kerala University. His interests include network protocols, software architecture and scalable software designs for connected devices.