My entrepreneurial journey started at Optimus Logic(OL) in February 2016 with a mandate to scale its business forward in defence electronics and to drive the product electronics business towards product sales, with a specific focus on the IoT sector. I am an investor since OL's founding stage in 2013.Transforming OL from startup to revenue driven operations to sustain the R&D in the complex RF field of Ad-hoc Radios and Radars has been my main challenge. Our field of work is to leverage… Show more My entrepreneurial journey started at Optimus Logic(OL) in February 2016 with a mandate to scale its business forward in defence electronics and to drive the product electronics business towards product sales, with a specific focus on the IoT sector. I am an investor since OL's founding stage in 2013.Transforming OL from startup to revenue driven operations to sustain the R&D in the complex RF field of Ad-hoc Radios and Radars has been my main challenge. Our field of work is to leverage the latest defence technologies & contributions for civilian applications. With our team's efforts, "Dory”, our License-free Voice+Data Radio product that needs no infrastructure, for Drones, Disaster Relief, Industrial & Security Applications, is now ready for sales. To augment knowledge across sectors & to create revenue driven innovations, I establish turnkey product engagements & partnerships with semiconductor & product companies, to build products like Amazon Alexa enabled Audio Devices, Industrial Fault Management Systems etc. Indian defence sector is booming with huge growth opportunities due to Make-In-India program. OL has crossed the 5-Year milestone of defence supply, making it eligible for taking on the bigger R&D projects in Defence sectors, aiming for cross-functional system level delivery. OL's focus on core R&D across ASIC/FPGA/SW/HW/PCB/Cloud/Apps/RF/Radars, is augmented with strategic partnership for algorithms/DSP/machine learning with IIT, Hyderabad since 2016. This partnership with IIT Hyderabad has been our cornerstone that I helped to bag, to take on the end-to-end design of complex defence systems.I am actively involved in securing high value product/R&D defence contracts at Defence PSUs:1. Software Defined Radios 2. Radars & RF Signal Tracking3. AvionicsScaling OL's workforce to broaden our work horizon & meet our goals remains my key responsibility. Show less

In this role as Director, Customer Program Management, I managed the interaction with customers, ODMs and design houses, spread across the globe, to secure design-wins and strategic partnerships for Ineda's SoCs. One of the important programs that I managed at Ineda was the Samsung Artik1 program (www.artik.io) with the Ineda's SoC. Other key programs are the many ODM clients for wearables that use Ineda's Dhanush(I3) WPU.My key responsibility was to complement Sales and Marketing of… Show more In this role as Director, Customer Program Management, I managed the interaction with customers, ODMs and design houses, spread across the globe, to secure design-wins and strategic partnerships for Ineda's SoCs. One of the important programs that I managed at Ineda was the Samsung Artik1 program (www.artik.io) with the Ineda's SoC. Other key programs are the many ODM clients for wearables that use Ineda's Dhanush(I3) WPU.My key responsibility was to complement Sales and Marketing of the World's 1st Wearable Processing Unit (WPU) - Dhanush - specifically designed to cater to the wearable and Internet-Of-Things markets. Please refer to www.inedasystems.com for further details.My customer program management role included :Forging relationships with new customers,Show-casing the strengths of Dhanush SoC for the Wearable Devices, Diving deep into the product, hardware & software design with the customers, Managing communication between customers and internal engineering teams to secure and maintain design-wins,Mapping customer requirements & schedules with internal engineering and delivery teams,Coordinating with internal engineering, delivery and management teams to meet customer schedules,and Keeping the relationships fruitful with effective personal communication, timely response and using the varied technical expertise.In a previous role, I handled program management of the Ineda's Micro-server Storage solution ISS for Samsung, which involved HW IP, FPGA, SW, Integration and Customer Interaction from Proposal to Delivery. The project ISS earned significant NRE for Ineda as well as catapulted Ineda's position in Samsung. This was an instrumental reason for Samsung to come as an investor for Ineda at a later date.In addition, my primary role was to manage the software development for ISS, including hands-on module design and development. I managed a team of 10 members to deliver the complete ISS solution integrated with in-house HW IP to Samsung. Show less

My responsibilities included develop and manage the following projects:MHP-based Satellite STB Application Support on Apollo PlatformSoft@Home Middleware Support for IP STBOpenTV Middleware v2.2 Support for Satellite STB

Managed the Platform development for Xilleon 143 - Digital TV ASIC. This role in Broadcom was in continuation of the role played in AMD - as part of Broadcom's acquisition of AMD's DTV business in 2008.

Managed the platform development for Xilleon 241 and 255 variants - Digital TV ASIC.This role in AMD was in continuation of the role played in ATI - as part of AMD's acquisition of ATI in 2007.

Played an instrumental role in managing STB Software team for Xilleon X242 Digital TV ASIC in India and getting complete software ownership for future ASIC variants to India.

I started my career in Philips with the software development for the World's 1st DVD Recorder product. Philips in many ways provided the right inputs, training and opportunity to create a robust foundation for product and software development skills, right in the beginning of my career.At Philips I worked for various products in the almost 7 years of experience. Key ones are:World's 1st DVD Recorder (Worked on Tuner and Recording Software)Portable MP3 CD/Tuner Audio Player –… Show more I started my career in Philips with the software development for the World's 1st DVD Recorder product. Philips in many ways provided the right inputs, training and opportunity to create a robust foundation for product and software development skills, right in the beginning of my career.At Philips I worked for various products in the almost 7 years of experience. Key ones are:World's 1st DVD Recorder (Worked on Tuner and Recording Software)Portable MP3 CD/Tuner Audio Player – K3AZ4000Easylink in Single SCART DVD ReceiverDVD Recorder 2nd Generation Board Support package (BSP) with Embedded Linux for PNX4008 Application Processor Show less