Bhaskarjyoti Das Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

PES University has given me the opportunity to teach, anchor, and create challenging courses that fuel my curiosity and also help me fuel students' curiosity i.e. have been teaching Machine Learning/Machine Intelligence, Natural Language Processing , Social Network Analytics, Data Analytics, Algorithms for Information Retrieval ( essentially Search) , Software Engineering, Machine Learning on Graphs, and Mathematics For Machine Learning. I guide many small research projects (spanning 6 months to one year ) with many bright young minds. While I have been primarily teaching, I am also a researcher here as I enjoy exploring the way the landscape is changing.

Bengaluru Area, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Bangalore

Back to school after 25+ years and I did some hands on research. My masters thesis is in the interdisciplinary area of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Social Network Analysis. It ended up in 4 publications. The work analyses unstructured text reviews , provides visual summary as topic trees (using semantic distance) and detects customer tastes to find taste based implicit networks that are bigger than the explicit ones.

Bangalore

After 25+ years, on a break to help out in some family emergency

Bengaluru Area, India

The company is floated by Indian entrepreneurs and has web based hosted products around world class content with customers in India, Europe and USA. Unlike most start-ups, it already had revenue, assets, products and customers but had not yet built the engineering DNA for a sustainable product business. Interestingly, growing in the market place is essentially same challenge for all but the big ones may just get to make more attempts/mistakes/can afford to bleed longer while smaller businesses may not get a 2nd chance.Mine was a change assignment i.e. to help refactor the 1.5 million lines platform that the company has built over last 2 years as well as the engineering organization. Led a detailed analysis of the current platform, build vs. buy with open source products such as Liferay and Alfresco, detailed set of SRS and absolute $ value for both options. That helped us decide to refocus on domain app and buy platform vs. building domain apps. The cultural refactoring is the necessary leap from old comfort zone of one off projects to on-going products (=cost of doing product business) and one can't afford to get mixed up between product & service. The dilemma here is between urgent and important. This was my maiden attempt at consulting after a life time as employee in jumbo organizations. Had a peek into the other world (=bottom of the pyramid) so different from matrix-obsessed “cost-centres” of large MNCs and now have the first hand understanding of the challenges of building a product business from India.

Bengaluru Area, India

Leading Yahoo! Platform Technology Group's Quality Engineering function at Bangalore. My main assignment is to turn around a large part of this team. This group's responsibility includes various web 2.0 platforms such as Yahoo! Data and Analytics for audience, search behavioral targeting, Yahoo! participation platform and Yahoo! social directory. Turning around a platform Engineering team consists of three steps i.e. 1st part is relatively easy - fixing the process; 2nd part is more difficult - fixing the talent gap, role models and aspirations as, for platform, one really needs deep developers who can test; 3rd is building the culture or dominant behavior of the team by transforming the acquired intellectual capital into social capital of a high performance team. Irrespective of development or test, the web 2.0 is different from let's say web 1.0 in one key aspect i.e the short product release cycle. And this aspect changes everything in product engineering and increases the challenges of any change initiative as boundary between activity and progress gets blurred. Daily release becomes very important whereas the goal of the release gets lost (;- Also a long term change typically brings down the team performance in the short term and in the web 2.0 world of delivery madness, most players do not play for long term goals. Distributed nature of the teams just exponentially increases this complexity.

Bengaluru Area, India

Distributed product engineering is different from pure offshore model. It is essentially a cost/value constrained optimization problem with several variables such as structure, culture, work partitioning, skill, collaboration maturity etc. Cost includes both the opportunity cost of not doing at mother location and cost of distributed way of work. The Distributed Development Framework Program is a risk management program to ensure that we got enough value i.e. cost of distribution does not make it net negative. This was an interesting change program. This program essentially built on the observed patterns and anti-patterns between the different functions such as Development, QA, Product Management, Marketing, Deployment and the how these anti-patterns got accentuated by the distributed nature of the org. It bench marked each major team on each of these inter and intra-functional inter-relationship and attempted to improve affairs. It's hard for leaders to recognize that they themselves may be part of the problem unless they subject themselves to an objective self-check. In a way it is like doing one's yearly health-check and taking measures if things go wrong. It does reveal gaping issues as a health-check can do for a seemingly confident person. This was also a trust accelerator program as in distributed work, trust is key and this program can help fix the competence (not character) part of the trust. My job involved working with all the Yahoo! business unit R&D organizations that were distributed, to come up with a framework, establish a common report card and help them to improve in a measurable way. This was an international change program that was across India and USA.

Bengaluru Area, India

Built from scratch and managed multiple product engineering teams for Sun Storage at India Engineering Center. The teams work for Sun NAS, Storage System Test Organization, Storage Management Products such as Common Array Manager, Streamline Backup Manager, StorageTek Library Manager etc.

Bengaluru Area, India

Built from scratch and managed a large product engineering team for Sun Java Enterprise System Portal Server product at Sun's India Engineering Center. The team did many complete product releases ( Architecture, QA, Development, Documentation, Sustaining, Localization and globalization). It was a distributed engineering model where a very large part of the product suite was owned in India. We started the team when the portal server didn't even hit the main street and the team stayed with it from inception to decline as it gradually became part of the Sun Java Enterprise platform.

Bengaluru Area, India

Engineering manager responsible for delivery of Terminal, Host and Internet adapters of Verifone's Payment management product based on client/server technology. The product was targeted at financial institutions, large retailers and service providers. These software adapters implemented ISO 8583 variants of Visa, Mastercard, Amex etc. for credit as well as debit cards.

Bengaluru Area, India

Was responsible for setting up AT&T/NCR's Professional Services Team in India to facilitate ATM based self-service business in India and was instrumental in introducing ATMs (self service banking) in India. ATMs are reinforced platforms that implement ISO 8583 variants of messaging in financial networks. Managed a team of engineers and led various system integration projects. Built a team that customized ATM software for Indian market, created rudimentary ATM controller/management software and built interfaces with major Banking Products in Indian Market. Customers were large banks in India such as Deutsche Bank, ICICI Bank etc.

Noida Area, India

Successfully executed various assignments as IT Strategy Consultant delivering Information Strategy & Architecture plan for large HCL Hewlett Packard accounts in India i.e. companies in shipping (container) business (Tata NYK) , refractory business (ACC Ltd) , para-banking business (Sahara India) , government department (MP State Govt, Finance dept) and a national institute (National Institute Of Biologicals). Was the Consultant and then the Software Project Manager for a Billing and Customer Care Solution developed for a wide area paging service provider in India (Punwire Ltd).

Mumbai Area, India

Benett Coleman ( Times Of India group) is the biggest media conglomerate in India. The charter of this group was to strategize, decide and implement technology ( printing, pre-press, internet, IT) before handing over to production/IT teams . I didn't continue for long as I was keen on technology pure play at that point .

Kolkata Area, India

Manager of a back-end IT Team i.e. led the project to set up a LAN-WAN-Voice integrated network for a large newspaper company in India for remote publishing (launching Business Standard ) and created in-house software tools for newspaper pagination software.

Mumbai Area, India

Was part of the engineering team for LAN product (FALCON) developed in house and was subsequently part of Tandem engineering team at TCS. Trained in Guardian OS of Tandem. Led the first Tandem Offshore Project at TCS and contributed in various onsite assignments at Tandem Cupertino.

Ahmedabad Area, India

Developed Microprocessor based hardware and communication firmware for message switch & terminal for TDM/TDMA based VSAT network.This was part of India's indigenous satellite (INSAT) R&D program.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, First Class With Distinction

Advanced (operating system, database, network, algorithm), Mobile computing, Multi core, Storage, Cloud, Information Security, Artificial.

Certificate, Leading Management Teams

Overcoming challenges to leadership, Understanding team dynamics, Unlocking leadership potential, Leading through creativity, Executive.

Advanced Management Program

This course is about integrating the functional knowledge and experience with organizational perspective and helping folks reflect.

Scpm, Advanced Project/Program Management

Converting Strategy into action, Leadership for strategic execution, Managing global initiatives, Mastering integrated programs, Mastering.

Egmp, Executive Mba

Usual MBA stuff like Macro and Micro economics, Financial and Management accounting, Corporate finance, Marketing management, Organization.

Customized General Management Program

Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering, Engineering, First Class With Honours

School, Secondary And Higher Secondary, Rank Holder In West Bengal