Pranshu Gupta Email & Phone Number

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Telematics designed for the Indian market. We have in-house hardware and software teams. We are #MakeInIndiaProud to say that Trak N Tell is slowly becoming the #1 national automotive aftermarket leader in Telematics. Our EV series of TCUs (Telematics Control Units) are in use by leading Indian EV manufacturers as standard equipment. We are TCU suppliers to OEMs in OHV (Off-Highway Vehicle), CV (Commercial Vehicle) and 2W (Two-Wheeler) industries. Trak N Tell has a… Show more Telematics designed for the Indian market. We have in-house hardware and software teams. We are #MakeInIndiaProud to say that Trak N Tell is slowly becoming the #1 national automotive aftermarket leader in Telematics. Our EV series of TCUs (Telematics Control Units) are in use by leading Indian EV manufacturers as standard equipment. We are TCU suppliers to OEMs in OHV (Off-Highway Vehicle), CV (Commercial Vehicle) and 2W (Two-Wheeler) industries. Trak N Tell has a sales and service presence across top 20 cities in India (measured by car sales data). Our platform is currently processing one billion packets of IoT data. Show less

Gurgaon, India

Telematics (M2M, IoT)• OEM: Worked closely with R&D to get product approved as standard equipment. Worked with Before Development and Purchasing departments to get enrolled as an approved vendor and obtain PO.• Managed team to build software platform from scratch to capture, process and store terabytes of data. Storage requirements grew by 1GB/day. Optimized hardware, OS configuration and network topology to achieve 13x performance gain with sub-second data retrieval. New… Show more Telematics (M2M, IoT)• OEM: Worked closely with R&D to get product approved as standard equipment. Worked with Before Development and Purchasing departments to get enrolled as an approved vendor and obtain PO.• Managed team to build software platform from scratch to capture, process and store terabytes of data. Storage requirements grew by 1GB/day. Optimized hardware, OS configuration and network topology to achieve 13x performance gain with sub-second data retrieval. New architecture robust (< 1% downtime) and scalable (traffic 500% with zero changes). Configured self-sufficient server farms with automated monitoring, failover and recovery thereby reducing NOC usage considerably (< 1 ticket/week average). Technologies: Java, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Linux.• Server platform has rule engine which defines the communication frequency with the end-user thus ensuring vehicle owner is not overwhelmed with too much information, and at the same time, is able to access information on demand even without a device capable of data transmission capabilities.• Worked closely with hardware team to ensure hardware meets requirements. Suggested improvements to ensure optimal power consumption. Hardware is highly flexible and fully configurable. All configuration parameters pushed by server to the hardware.• Researched competitive landscape, identified vendors, negotiated rates.• Managed customer relationships which boosted customer loyalty.• Pushed the Indian bureaucracy to be granted a license to import restricted items into India. Was given security clearance by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). Sued the Indian Customs Department for wrongly confiscating shipment. Interacted with senior officials of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) to bring about policy change.• Built iOS (iPhone + iPad), Android and Facebook apps for real-time traffic alerts coupled with Google navigation. Technologies: Objective-C, Java. Show less

Cupertino, Ca

Provides outsourced web development services to startups.• Worked closely with founders of 21 startups to understand their business and their requirements.Asked them pertinent questions to ensure expectations were realistic. Provided time and cost estimates.• Worked closely with VCs and provided technical due diligence on companies they were considering investing.• Developed a common infrastructure which could be utilized across multiple websites… Show more Provides outsourced web development services to startups.• Worked closely with founders of 21 startups to understand their business and their requirements.Asked them pertinent questions to ensure expectations were realistic. Provided time and cost estimates.• Worked closely with VCs and provided technical due diligence on companies they were considering investing.• Developed a common infrastructure which could be utilized across multiple websites. Back-endremained same across all websites even though each had a drastically different front-end. Back-end had various configuration parameters which made it extremely flexible. Built sites for architects, toymanufacturers, doctors, ISPs, HR, etc. Technologies: Java, Apache, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle.• Developed algorithm for providing a web search across the website (circa 2004). Managed team to build the search engine. Provided incremental indexes and results sorted by relevance. Integrated affinity to boost relevance ranking. Used extensively across multiple websites.• Employee retention was a big problem as talented software engineers were in demand and attritionrates were very high. Formulated strategies to attract and retain talented engineers. Resulted in lowattrition rate (4%) and enhanced productivity (on-time and bug-free deliveries). With a motivated team in place, was able to do more with fewer resources. This, in turn, helped the startups achieve their targets. Show less

Sunnyvale, Ca

World’s #1 internet destination in terms of pageviews (pre-Google era)• Data Mining Group: Architected software to generate ROI reports for elite customers. Worked closely with account managers to understand client requirements and set expectations. Managed team of engineers in India and USA. Technologies: C, C++, Perl, Oracle, Apache, Linux.• Wireless Group: RIM 850 (now Blackberry) was one of the first two-way pagers with a full QWERTY keyboard. Yahoo! and RIM wanted to… Show more World’s #1 internet destination in terms of pageviews (pre-Google era)• Data Mining Group: Architected software to generate ROI reports for elite customers. Worked closely with account managers to understand client requirements and set expectations. Managed team of engineers in India and USA. Technologies: C, C++, Perl, Oracle, Apache, Linux.• Wireless Group: RIM 850 (now Blackberry) was one of the first two-way pagers with a full QWERTY keyboard. Yahoo! and RIM wanted to include the mail app on it. Wrote an IMAP interface (in C/C++). Worked extensively with RIM engineers to resolve issues with HTTP sessions and cookies in their gateway. Worked with the Yahoo! Mail engineers to create API to access a user’s mailbox. Later, code became Yahoo! Mail’s public IMAP interface. Technologies: Apache module written in C, FreeBSD kernel changes.• Media Group: Yahoo! did not have an integrated database to store data across multiple properties.Conceived a solution and got management approval to build the system. Led team of software engineers to build the backend. Hosted a 5-day training for engineers world-wide. Backend launched in USA, UK, Italy and France. Later integrated with Yahoo! Shopping to drive conversions. Backend was serving 20MM pageviews/month. Technologies: Perl, PL/SQL, Oracle on Win32+Linux.• Media Group: Built and maintained various properties such as Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Books, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Celebs, Yahoo! TV. Altogether, these properties served 30MM pageview/month.• Was part of the transition from a start-up to a mature company. Show less

Houston, Tx

World’s #1 oil company• Worked on the complete software lifecycle of graphics- and computation-intensive in-house 2D interactive DSP package for modeling data. Technologies: X Windows, Motif, C, Solaris.

B.Sc., Computer Engineering

High School, Biology