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Augmented Reality Farmer based on IIoT, Remote sensing, Vision, Lidar/Radar, drone, and satellite tech augmented by Edge A.I and TinyML modeling in mobile-centric ecosystem.Daily, a farmer faces decisions on irrigation, nutrition, pest, weed, or disease control based on yield forecasts, drought conditions, and product economics, our solution is guided by 4 key doctrines - a holistic one-stop solution, the smallest farm grower affordability, ease of use, environmental accountability.

Passionately farming 1000+ acres of Almonds and Vegetables in the beautiful Central Valley, bringing together latest and greatest in farming techniques with technology.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

AWS hosted SaaS hoteling CRM for surveys, reputation, and email marketing, ML based rich guest profiles data platform.Heading product engineering leading all development and test teams located in San Francisco, Costa Rica, Ukraine, Amsterdam, and Vietnam.Evangelized SDLC across engineering, product, business. Accomplished multiple technical and cost optimization projects, Consolidated multiple apps into one, delivered to plan meeting company profitability goals.

Palo Alto, California, Us

a unicorn SaaS startup provides content indexing, search, growth, conversions, engagement on 50,000+ mobile apps with ~8 billion events/day on a micro-services data pipeline in AWS.Lead product engineering directing managers & full-stack engineers overseeing software development & test of all the revenue-generating product offerings.Key achievements - next-gen of the deep linking platform + API gateway, redesigned UI, Rebuild mobile SDKs team, build test team from scratch,

San Francisco, California, Us

Built a global multi-tiered team of managers & engineers overseeing development, quality, & project mgmt. to deliver software & hardware solutions for multimedia applications meeting 10% YOY growth. Support $250M revenue for uses cases including IoT, cloud-based solutions, multimedia innovations - gaming, VR, Imaging, A/V algorithms - Atmos. Directed a $ 30 million+ capital & operational budget.Lead multiple cross-functional & cross-company programs conducting competitive & customer analysis translating insights into technical requirements that positively impacted consumer experience and created three 100+ million new business lines.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Directed multiple teams for Software/Firmware test, DevOps, Process, Tiers3 support based in the U.S & India.

Westford, Ma, Us

Directed software quality teams focused on IMS VoIP, GSM-based FEMTO/PICO, billing systems, application servers, and mobile applications such as IM, voice, video, IPTV, and SiP core.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Software Manager, Scalability/Performance, 2004 - 2007Led a team of technical leaders, managers, & engineers located across 3 locations in North America. Drove scalability & performance characterization for technologies including MPLS, L2/L3 VPN, Metro-Ethernet, and security Software Manager, Network Management Systems, 2001 - 2004Directed a team of 15+ software development engineers in development and maintenance of network management features and functionality on Cisco routing and data-centric switches.Technical Leader, Support/Customer Escalations , 1999 - 2001Worked in a unique technical role, from conception to GA, on design, development and test of a custom ASIC based core Edge Router. Promoted to take over the customer deployment and critical escalations • Patented Design & coded a “white box” architecture to validate the Cisco 10k PXF (processor forwarding engine). Sr. Software Engineer, Routing & Switching, 1996 - 1999• Technical lead on the Cisco 6200 DSLAMs• Routing protocols on the Cisco 7200, 7500, GSR/12000 platform with all interfaces

M.S, Computer Engineering

B.E, Electronics & Telecommunications