Lal Chandran Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Sweden, SE

iGrant.io is a pioneering consented personal data exchange platform that leverages digital wallets to unlock personal data value for organisations and individuals, fully aligning with GDPR for data control and privacy. Embracing the enhanced trust and security frameworks of eIDAS 2.0, our platform empowers individuals to manage their data while enabling.

Stockholm, Sweden, SE

Kista, Stockholm, SE

• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the strategic program “OneCloud '' - A distributed cloud platform based on Ericsson infrastructure. This was later developed into “Ericsson Cloud Application Platform”
• Lead a DevOps engineering team in a geographically distributed environment - building and operating clouds aaS, with many 3PP partners, building a developer platform.
• Techstack included: AngularJS, GoLang, CI/CD with Jenkins, Swagger for APIs, mongoDB, Docker, Ansible, Grafana/Kibana on Ericsson HDS/Dell, Openstack and Kubernetes.
• Supported product marketing towards key industry events (Gartner, Mobile World Congress etc.)Key Achievements:
• The OneCloud program had 8 consecutive releases, on-budget on-time, adopting a DevOps way of working for application development and 3PP onboarding.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

• Strategic Product Manager (Cloud Security): Part of the global product management team bringing the cloud and hyperscale infrastructure to the market. Primarily responsible for cloud security in Ericsson Cloud stack..
• Lead technology and business analysis for Ericsson Distributed Cloud System towards enterprisesResponsible for Ericsson’s Cloud Security strategy looking at the new business areas (New business development, defining.
• Lead customer discussions at Senior/C-level supporting in strategy definition to deployment, discussions with Engagement Practice, Customer Units etc. primarily validating Ericsson strategic choses on hyperscale.
• Lead a strategic program with CapGemini business consulting, carrying out market analysis defining Ericsson wanted position with Cloud/XaaSKey achievements:
• Improving customer perception for Ericsson NFVi security where Ericsson is ranked #1.
• Launched a series of cloud and data center portfolio products including world’s first distributed ledger for data integrity (via a partner company Guardtime) and world's first hyperscale, rackscale system (HDS8000).

Kista, Stockholm, SE

• Head of System and Technology, Ericsson Network Security Key responsibilities:
• Responsible for ensuring that the team delivers to the assigned tasks within the schedule.
• As the leader of system and technology team, carry out individual competence development, coach and mentor team members.Key achievements:
• Lead a transformation towards IT security and established a global competence hub for security called Ericsson Network Security
• Lead and executed Ericsson product PKI (EPPKI, Public Key Infrastructure)/CA (Certificate Authority) providing signing and verification services for base station and radio dots HW/SW to ensure supply chain integrity.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

• Head of System and Technology, Ericsson Network IQ (ENIQ) Datawarehouse Product DevelopmentEricsson Network IQ or ENIQ is based on a product Ericsson acquired from a Finnish startUp Distocraft. It is a performance.
• Lead the system and technology team as a team manager
• Integrate the newly acquired startUp to Ericsson development organisation
• Grow the one of solution from the startUp to Ericsson OSS mass markets Key achievements:
• During the period, ENIQ scaled from a single customer to high 3-digit customer base.
• Established and built feature licensing for ENIQ, which is the first SW licensing implementation in Ericsson. This was based on Sentinel.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

• Snr Specialist, Architect (Programming/Design and Development), Mobile Media Gateway Product Development (Mobile Softswitch, Core Network Infrastructure)Key achievement:
• Won the innovation award for automated generic upgrade solution which was later made into a product

Kista, Stockholm, SE

Mobile Media Gateway Product Development (Part of Mobile Softswitch Core Network Infrastructure). Was a developer/SW specialist in O&M, SW programming, design and development

London, GB

Developer/programmer, design and development consultant (via MBT)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Certificate In Data: Law, Policy And Regulation, Data Regulations

Master Of Science, Computer Science

B-Tech (Bachelor Of Technology)

Junior And Senior School

Corporate Trainings, Technology And Business

Professional Continuing Education On Datacenter Infrastructures, Data Centers