Embarking on building a world class team to solve some of the toughest challenges of complex, high volume, distributed cloud communications.Complete ownership of Engineering Function- Team structuring, Assessment, Hiring, motivating and retaining people (career ladder, KRA/KPI definition). Built a team from 60 to 120+ at its peak, with 4 sub-groups being let by Engineering leaders managing 30+ people- Defining, planning and executing product roadmap, including Engineering initiatives to improve Reliability and execution speed- Defining and Setting up SDLC fine-tuned towards execution efficiency and speed- Responsible for Overall Product quality, Delivery and Customer support- Complete ownership and accountability of engineering cost - Deep understanding of telecom regulation nuances, working closely with Operators, Data centers and cloud vendors- Managing teams in multiple locations within India- Working as a team with Product head, Sales head, COO and CEO to build business strategy for the companyVery aggressively hiring across the board in engineering as well as product. PM me if you are interested in joining a team of crazies trying to achieve even crazier things at a super rapid pace!

Was on a brief, but an exciting journey at a start-up, to build a world-class team to deliver a world-class technology solution in the field of SDN for telecommunications. Helped build a highly complex, large-scale, highly available and distributed SOA platform in the telecom space for ensuring Guaranteed Quality of Experience for end consumers starting with Video delivery as the main focus area. Product includes Mobile App / SDK on Android, iOS; Backend distributed system on telecom datacenter with private cloud deployment using containerisation, virtualisation and orchestration; Web portal for configuration and data analytics with RBACComplete ownership of Engineering pipeline - Team structuring, Assessment, Hiring, motivating and retaining people- Leading a team of 60+ engineers with 5 sub-teams- Defining, planning and executing product roadmap- Setting up process oriented towards DevOps- Overall Architecture, Delivery, Customer support- Complete ownership and accountability of engineering cost- Working closely with VP products, Founding members and board of directors to build business strategy for the company

Responsible for seeding, defining and building a core competency and a team on Machine Learning. Current focus of ML include Automotive, Retail Analytics and Smart Video codecs

Worked in a start-up incubator, in defining, architecting and building an end consumer collaboration-centric social media service. 130k+ app installs on Android and iOS and the service that ran on Google cloud for 2+ years, 15+ updates with Zero down timeResponsible for ideating, translating the idea into a full-fledged consumer SAAS product that included - Web service for social media (profile, friends, image album posts, like, comment, share, follow) - SIP service for real-time collaboration (Audio-Video/image, contextual point and zoom, multi-party, hands-free VoIP calls) - Off-line collaboration (image sharing, contextual point and zoom, contextual messaging, tagging, alerts) - E-Marketing and customer collaboration omnichannel marketing portal for brands (followers, members, campaigns with offers [gift, avail, share], exclusivity by invitation and self checkout for consumers)Complete product engineering ownership from product spec to driving design, execution, deployment and support. Full ownership of engineering and deployment cost, optimizations and risk managementBuilding a technically strong team that thrives on challenges - from ground-zero - by seeding, recruiting, training and grooming leadership roles. Seeded a team of 4 engineers and built a team of 15 engineers in one year

Responsible for building and delivering high-end, scalable video communication systems (Videophones and Telepresence) to markee customers like Cisco, Mitel, AvayaLeading the Raodmap and technology focus for Video Communication Systems - Media (H.264, H.263, MPEG-4, G.7xx, GSM-AMR, AAC) - Telephony (AJB, PLC, CPT-DTMF, AEC, ANR) - Signaling and protocols (SIP, SIMPLE extensions, NAT using ICE with STUN and TURN, RTP with different RFCs, RTCP) - System engineering (AV Sync, bridging, multi-party, interoperability) - Operating systems (Linux, WinCE, Android) - SOCs (TI, Qualcomm, Intel, Freescale, NVidia)Responsible for product engineering, building and grooming a highly effective and efficient team (25+ strong including 3 Managers and an Architect, from a seed team of 4) that thrives on challenges with focus on product engineering cost for IP licensing as a KPI. Strong and deep exposure to pre-sales activities spearheading and meeting with potential customers to translate an opportunity to a design win through technical discussions and demonstrations

Voice and Video over IP expert with complete Ownership of Video Communications media system SDK for prosumer grade video phones. Lead a team of 3-6 Engineers and Senior Engineers to design, develop and build the SDK from scratch. Primary architect and lead developer for Videophone media SDK with support for - Multiple media codecs - Running on multiple TI platforms consisting multi-core SOCs - Multi-party conferencing - AV Sync, Acoustics, Telephony, media protocols (RTP/RFC, RTCP)

Audio and acoustics engineer with strong signal processing fundamentals. Designed, implemented and optimized - Audio encoder (AAC-LC/LD, MP3) - Acoustic and Line Echo cancellers (G.167 and G.168 compliant)

Audio engineer with solid engineering foundation. Designed and implemented audio decoders (AAC-LC/LD, MP3), speech codecs (CELP based codecs)