Hardik Shah

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Founder - WildWatchers @ WildWatchers
Hardik Shah's Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, India
About Hardik Shah

Year 2023 - todayAfter 19 incredible years as a Software Professional, I’m thrilled to announce a new chapter: founding my own startup, WildWatchers. This venture allows me to channel my passion for technology and nature into a platform with the potential to truly make a difference.WildWatchers is a technology-driven startup focused on bridging the gap between wildlife enthusiasts and expert guides. Through our mobile app, users can connect with verified wildlife guides across the country, seamlessly book their services, and dive deeper into nature’s wonders. By aggregating these guides on a single platform, we make it easier than ever for wildlife lovers to plan meaningful, educational experiences.Year 2004 - 2023A Telecom BSS E2E Solution Architect with 19+ years of experience in designing and delivering Telco grade BSS Solution having products like Billing & Revenue Management, Unified Product Catalog, Work Order Management, 3GPP base Online charging system, Customer Relationship Management. Having rich experience in Leading the architecture design, technology transformation, monolith to microservice, on-prem to cloud-native, following standards like 3GPP, TMForum. My specializations include but are not limited to – Solution designing, application performance improvement, database design, people management, architecture designing for microservice transformation, troubleshooting production environment to get out of critical situation, E2E Solution architecture design with core focus on integration across products both functionally and technically, DevOps implementation, UI Design.

Hardik Shah's Current Company Details
WildWatchers

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Founder - WildWatchers
Hardik Shah Work Experience Details
  • Wildwatchers
    Founder
    Wildwatchers Sep 2023 - Present
    India
  • Skyvera
    Principal Product Architect
    Skyvera Apr 2023 - May 2023
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  • Elitecore Technologies Pvt Ltd.
    Principle Solution Architect
    Elitecore Technologies Pvt Ltd. Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
    Leading the “Design Authority” team for entire BSS products stack like CRM, UPC, BRM, OCS, PCRF, WOM and Digital Engagement Platform. Having primary responsibility of owning design for all the changes being done across the entire BSS product stack.Accountable for functional and technical designs of entire BSS stack for two of most important project in STL history. Both are BSS transformation projects that has already gone live recently, the first European customer of STL and large African CSP with millions of customer.Delivering FSD, HLD, Database design before start of every new sprint. Ensuring right alignment of product development team with the business requirement and design.Validating the compliance filled by pre-sales team for all the new opportunities and actively supporting pre-sales team by filling up the compliance wherever more clarification is required. Support pre-sales team for doing demo to the potential customer during opportunity stage. Design and execute POC if potential customer has asked for a specific use case.Lead the design of TmForum Open API adaptation and helped in reaching from 0 to 13 TMForum Open API certification. From entire STL Software vertical, I along with one more colleague were selected to participate in a unique training program on “Agility and Innovation” for all most 6 months having trainers from Europe. The training was designed to bring out the creativity, design thinking, and reverse brainstorming with more than 100 practical tools.Responsible for creating Hardware BoQ (cloud base or on-prem deployment) of majority of BSS products during pre-sales stage. Helping pre-sales team to arrive at right set of physical servers which can result in win-win situation for both sales and delivery team.
  • Stl - Sterlite Technologies Limited
    Senior Solutions Architect
    Stl - Sterlite Technologies Limited Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
    Lead the design of transforming from monolith to microservice architecture. Deliver the first microservice of STL called dNotificationManager. Today entire BSS stack uses this dNotificationManager for all types of internal or external notification via email, sms, push notification.Lead the performance improvement program for Billing and OCS product to make them ready for Tier-1 market. Scaled the product to deliver 20x TPS and tested the entire products suits on AWS.Actively participated in journey of being cloud ready with Auto-scaling and Self-healing capability. Helped products getting compatible with K8S, Istio, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Docker.Lead the design to implement the 3GPP base Diameter Sy Interface between PCRF and OCS which helped in delivering throttling product plans when balance is managed with in OCS.
  • Stl - Sterlite Technologies Limited
    Associate Solution Architect
    Stl - Sterlite Technologies Limited Jul 2012 - Sep 2017
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
    Leading the Pre-Paid solution offering of Elitecore solution suits having products like Product Catalogue, OCS (Online Charging System), OFCS (Offline Charging System), Customer Management, Voucher Management, Recharge/Top-Up. Started leading team of 45 people consisting of Solution Architect, Engineering Managers, Technical Architect, Developers and QCs.Identifying E2E gaps of the pre-paid solution and aligning road map based on priority.Review and design the FSD/HLD prepared for each feature.
  • Stl - Sterlite Technologies Limited
    Tech Lead (3Gpp Online Charging System)
    Stl - Sterlite Technologies Limited Mar 2008 - Jun 2012
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
    Providing Functional design for creating new Online Charging System based on 3GPP standard.Preparing product presentation with every release and presenting the same to cross team.Executed IOT between ASN-GW and Online Rating & Charging for Elitecore’s first WiMax deployment
  • Tech Mahindra
    Technical Associate
    Tech Mahindra Feb 2006 - Feb 2008
    Mumbai Area, India
    Worked as technical associate as part of Application Enhancement team. Joined the team in Sweden to work with one of the best telecom operator. My role was to develop/enhance the BSS/Billing product for supporting the various market needs.
  • Reliance Communications
    Software Programmer
    Reliance Communications Apr 2004 - Jan 2006
    Mumbai Area, India
    Responsible for support and design of new products and maintenance of existing products. Extended support to BSS-Operation Team for Technical Support during customer life cycles.Designing and implementation of various rating/billing tariffs.

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