Over 9 years of engineering leadership experience in the networking and embedded software domain, with 22+ years of software engineering experience. During the last 6+ years, working at the intersection of embedded and cloud platforms to deliver new edge computing access point networking devices.Responsible for the overall wireless access point SW development, including new product bring up, ODM/chip vendor and HW team interaction, new feature development and old feature porting, SW release, regulatory approvals and maintenance. Manage a team of 20+ SW development engineers in multiple geographic locations. Run multiple scrums, and work in an Agile environment to adhere to a regular release cycle based on continuous delivery. Work closely with the cloud native team to provide analytics and sensor data thru the device to cloud communication layer.Key Achievements:First to market 802.11AX wi-fi access point products: SW development owner of the team that delivered the very first class of 802.11AX access point products to market.Customer Focused: Responsible for SW collaboration with support team for field issues, reduced the reported number of field issues and created a very stable firmware for the wireless products over the years, drastically improving customer satisfaction.Process Improvement: Moved firmware delivery to an Agile based CI/CD model that now averages 2 releases per month, achieving very high feature velocity.Built a cohesive team from ground up: Grew the wireless networking team from 2 to 20+ resources with very little attrition. Be a mentor and coach to the team members.Strengths:Continuously Customer focusedCollaborative and situational leadershipA wide and thorough grasp over the embedded and cloud SW technology spectrum
Listed skills include Embedded Software, Device Drivers, Embedded Systems, Debugging, and 15 others.
