Dharmesh Jani (Dj) Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

UCIe™ (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™) is an open specification that defines the interconnect between chiplets within a package, enabling an open chiplet ecosystem and ubiquitous interconnect at the package level.AMD, Arm, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE), Google Cloud, Intel Corporation, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm Incorporated, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company are dedicated to this open industry standard organization to promote and further develop the technology, and to establish a global ecosystem supporting chiplet design.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Leader within the Infrastructure foundation group driving the strategic technology engagement with the industry and the open source community including Open Compute Project (www.opencompute.org, the biggest open source movement for data centers). Co-chairman of OCP incubation committee, responsible for defining the vision for the data center industry working within Open Compute Project (OCP). Proven visionary thinker who acts as force multiplier for Infra org.

Austin, Texas, Us

Bay Area, Ca, Us

IIT-Bay Area Alumni Association is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to serve the powerful community of 15000+ IIT Alumni in the Bay Area, collaborate with 45000+ IIT Alumni across USA and a massive IIT community across the globe. IIT Bay Area is the center of support, influence and action for IITians, their families and our allies - creating a cohesive ecosystem of enterprises, non-profits, entrepreneurs, investors, academicians and social impact drivers. Learn more at https://www.iit-bayarea.org

Austin, Texas, Us

Leading product team to define reference platforms for 5G, Optical and Networking products.

Austin, Texas, Us

Promoted to Vice President with accountability for driving technology innovation, enabling sales and establishing strategic alliances with leading technology companies to propel revenue growth.✔ Built, developed and led a talented team of up to 15 technologists through completion of multiple innovative projects on distributed storage, NFV, SDN, and OpenStack to successfully target Telco Cloud market.✔ Launched Lab-as-a-service allowing partners, customers and software vendors to test drive open source based solutions based on CORD stack running on OCP Hardware, OPNFV stack running on standard 19" HW.✔ Steered sales enablement of over $10B for sales organization of the largest business segment within Flex, via frequent customer engagements, product POCs, and white papers.✔ Realized ~$5B in revenue by driving business development for 3 OEMs and 2 global service providers.✔ Conceptualized and designed $10M customer showcase center with 150kW datacenter within Flex for OpenStack interoperability, Open Compute certification, and NFV-based IaaS.✔ Championed and launched Project Unity, a multi-rack OpenStack cluster in partnership with Intel on storage side, Mirantis on OpenStack side, and Cumulus and Juniper contrail on SDN side.✔ Established and cultivated strategic software alliances with leading companies such as Mirantis, Big Switch Networks, Plumgrid, Tintri and Palo Alto Networks for multi-vendor solution engineering.

Austin, Texas, Us

Secured seed funding of $1M from the business segment President to execute cloud-driven transformation through the inception, launch, and development of CloudLabs, a startup group focused on providing rack level reference architecture R&D within cloud supply chain services. ✔ Transformed CloudLabs into a key sales enabler for $10B Enterprise business segment within Flex.✔ Drove successful delivery of 4 key initiatives: OpenStack-based private cloud, NFV-infrastructure development, open source CEPH-based Object Store, and Intel Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM).✔ Led development of automation framework based on Ansible, System imaging tools, bit-bucket, Jenkins and Telegraf/Graphana based visualization dashboards. Deployed publicly available benchmarks like Spec, Stream, FIO and iPerf to benchmark rack scale solutions.✔ Strengthened customer relationships and secured RFQs with 3 large OEM vendors. ✔ Closed a revenue-driven engagement with a premier software vendor developing a multi-node virtual SAN architecture, based on commodity hardware for their distributed storage software.

Austin, Texas, Us

Proposed, influenced and gained buy-in from CEO, CSO and the Flex BOD to drive change in corporate transformational strategy from pure EMS to end-to-end supply chain solution provider via concept of platform. ✔ Presented about corporate strategy changes and cloud technology innovation at the leadership summit, with an audience of 300 business leaders from four business segments.✔ Developed strategy for the $10B business segment to pivot to cloud-driven market opportunities. ✔ Identified key technological market trends via data-driven analysis, supporting adoption of white box and early recognition of impact on infrastructure of software-defined networking and storage.✔ Articulated potential benefits of cloud technologies to the traditional OEM and Flex core businesses, including emergence of white boxes servers and switches and open source initiatives such as OpenStack, OpenFlow, and OCP.

Camarillo, Ca, Us

Provided strategic and tactical oversight to accelerate growth of the 100G product/business line. Accountable for P&L management and supervision of dedicated R&D, finance, operations and quality teams. ✔ Instrumental for the introduction of World’s first 100G coherent MUX with DQPSK pre-coder. ✔ Grew business to over $30M by leveraging in-depth knowledge of the entire optical value chain ecosystem, spanning carriers, TEMs, OEMs and module vendors.✔ Supported development of 100G solutions on client and line side by interacting with carriers such as Verizon, ATT, NTT, system vendors such as Fujitsu, Alcatel-Lucent, NSN, Cisco, Juniper, and module vendors such as FOC, Opnext, Finisar, JDSU, and Acacia. ✔ Contributed to worldwide sales/FAE training of ‘Optical Networking: From Systems to Components,’ a course covering the basics of lasers, Tx-Rx and DWDM networking principles.

Founded mobile learning company targeted at providing learning platform for diverse set of users both on enterprise side as well as consumer side. I put together a team to bootstrap the start-up, defined the company vision, business plan, go-to-market plan, financial model and mobile UI design.✔ Led the vision of the first mobile product platform design from scratch✔ Founded the initial core team ✔ Defined the key aspects of mobile learning platform, feature sets and UI interface✔ Business plan development for the company including opportunity identification, customer segmentation, distribution, go-to-market and product price bundling✔ The alpha product generated over 100,000 downloads on Android Market PlaceThe application was one of the early pioneers in the space of mobile learning and was published on Android Market. It garnered over 100,000 downloaded cumulatively.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Implemented in-depth market research and gathered customer feedback to secure funding for the 10GbE ports product line. Developed detailed analysis, business model, and forecast with P&L statement. Managed MRDs for the product line as well as corporate collateral, brochures, and web design.✔ Defined and communicated strategy of PHY products to penetrate networking vertical via next generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) portfolio for customers such as Cisco, Huawei, Juniper. ✔ Collaborated with sales team to secure a significant design win with 2 top tiers networking vendors, generating combined annual revenues of $5M for 2007 and 2008.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Negotiated and managed customer agreements to secure design wins to grow sales of telecom products. ✔ Negotiated with customer CTO offices to secure 7 design wins with customers such as Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, and Fujitsu for integrated tunable laser assemblies (ITLA). ✔ Delivered fastest revenue growth for telecom product segment, generating $40M+ in revenue for 2007.✔ Led resolution of post-sales customer issues with transponders via effective leadership of cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams, reducing response time by 30% by tracking repeat issues.✔ Voted best instructor by participants at the Annual Intel sales conference in 2006.

San Jose, California, Us

Brought in as a Senior Member of Technical Staff and was promoted to Product Manager.✔ As a Product Manager, developed a prototype production line to support $20M in first purchase orders, and managed productive relationships with 6 key vendors, Finisar, OpNext, Excelight, Agilent, Intel & Fiberxon.✔ As a Sr. Member of Technical Staff, designed and tested 100G Digital Line Module, the first photonics integrated circuit based line card and qualified OC-192 XFPs, OC-48 SFPs for use as client-interface.

Us

Led technical response to customer RFP/RFIs, including conducting technology analysis. RFPs led to field deployment of Corvis optical systems for Broadwing and Williams Communication.✔ Primary Designer of World’s first 10G transport card, based on RS forward error correction codes.✔ Built, developed and directed a team of 4 engineers through development of a flagship product to carry IP traffic at 10G rate.✔ Developed internal engineering network standard based on GR-253 compliant product requirements

Designed and developed high speed circuits based on HBT as well as CMOS technologies. Designed 3GHz timing interface unit which was used in Mar Orbiter Laser Altimetry (MOLA) unit.

Stanford Exectuive Education Program, Stanford Executive Institute

Mba, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Msee, Intergrated Circuits, Systems And Mems

B.Tech, Electrical Engg

Education record

Continuing Education, Machine Learning

Self-Driving Car Nano Degree