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Gurugram, Haryana, India

Delivering Positive Business Impact through Digital Transformation for my clients & partners !!

To Understand, Analyze and Advise on IT processes of the Anti-Ragging Cell, UGC - Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India.

Spearheaded the setup of A10 Networks Pune Global Delivery Centre from Ground-Zero, with focus on INCEDO’s Product Engineering and R&D capabilities.Built large (100+) specialist group of technologists, Sr. Tech managers, Architects, Developers, data scientists, and R&D engineers managing the technical delivery of A10’s E2E Product Portfolio. The Primary Areas include Application Delivery, 5G Security, DDoS Protection & Traffic Visibility. The solutions gets deployed in Large Telco Service Provider Network & Enterprise Networks. Driving the Strategic initiatives for the A10 Networks Growth resulting in new Streams of revenue. Built a Close Partnership led engagement with A10 Networks key stake holders. Close collaboration with CEO / CXO level stake holders. Significant contribution in feature development, qualification of some of the Flagship products like Application Delivery Controllers ie ADC, ACOS (Advanced Core Operating System) NOS, CGN – FW (Carrier Grade - Firewall), TPS Threat Protection Systems for DDoS attack detection & mitigation. Harmony Controller – a management plane fore ADC, SSLi, CGN. Built OSS & PSIRT teams.As a Management Solution development leader led a shift in product management and development towards cloud-based software and services (SaaS) using software technologies, cloud delivery models, and lean & agile methodologies. Developed a multi-million-dollar market and portfolio through complete ownership of the key technical deliverables for this vertical.Built the System’s Platform Team which delivered cutting edge solution in the areas of Container Security enhancements, K8s Orchestration - Helm Chart Support, Porting of the A10’s Flagship ACOS NOS to ARM architecture, SRIOV & DPDK based optimization for Performance & optimization. Multi-cloud support “OCI – UEFI boot support in ACOS”, AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP support . Also delivered highly complex solution for “NIC Drivers Support – i40e” for VMWARE based EXSi platform.

Pune

Role – Sr. Technical Manager (Sterlite Technologies Ltd.): (Jan-2019 to Oct-2020)Engineering owner of “OS & Platforms” department, in the SDN/NFV - PNI (Programmable Networking & Intelligence) Business unit. The focus of the department is to build the SDN controller layers for multiple access technology eg. FTTX, WDM & RAN. Aligning ONF consortium’s ONOS / M-CORD reference design. A special focus is to build the O-RAN Aligned near-Real Time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC). Ensuring the RIC fits in the 5G Ecosystem solution.Areas of Responsibility:• Engage with product management team for the Market Analysis. Derive & Prioritize Use Cases for anchor customer.• Hire resources & build the technical team for product engineering.• Create & own the engineering road map & milestones for the product Alpha & GA release. • Provide guidance for the technical architecture & design considerations during the planning phase.• Own the execution & tracking of the engineering & development activities, to achieve the mile-stones as per the plan.• Collaborate with multiple RAN vendors to evaluate the best fit for the STL’s 5G solution.• Define the scope of the Co-Creation engagement with ONF, O-RAN, multiple vendors & partners.• Present the Plan & data to CXO’s at various levels to get the budget & resource approvals.

Bengaluru Area, India

Role – Technical Manager (Netcracker Technologies): (May/2017 - Dec/2018 )Worked on development of SDN/NFV MANO product. Leading one of the feature teams responsible for delivery of the new features, and quality. The Project involves technical delivery of the MANO features / enhancements to achieve the product roadmap. Agile methodology is opted for development with a Less Scrum framework. The product architecture is Micro services based in a DevOps environment. Product is built for Cloud native support.Technologies used: Cloud OpenStack, OpenShift, DevOps: based on GIT, Jenkins, Docker Containers (Spring Boot).Role – Technical Manager (Netcracker Technologies): (Oct-2016 to May-2017)Worked on the “NFV EMS for eNB, vCPE & vEPC” Project. Client is NEC Corporation Japan.The project involves technical delivery of the EMS to customer on the regular sprints. The NFV EMS uses Netcracker TOMS & RTF framework to deliver the FCAPS capability for monitoring the NEC GAIA eNB.Areas of Responsibility:• Work as a member of development team.• Complete E2E responsibility of technical delivery to customer.• Supervising group of software engineers i.e. Lead 2 to 6 development team members.• Lead design and development of NetCracker BSS/OSS program components and extensions.• Involvement in solution support projects.• Estimating efforts and duration on development;• Involvement in solution implementation projects.• Interaction with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Customer Support teams.• Provide expertise and best practices on technical aspects of product development and implementation projects including performance.• Introduce new development technologies, instruments and techniques.

Pune

Role – Project Lead (KPIT Technologies) : Worked on the “IoT based Connected Car” project. This project delivers a platform for the vehicles to be connected in real time. Gathering the metrics & diagnostics data over the network & transferring it to Server. Solution involves supporting multiple vehicle tracking, analysing the data & predict the Driving Efficiency, Gas Mileage, and Traffic Patterns.Project uses Spring XD for Ingestion, Hadoop for storage, Gemfire for in memory DB, HTML / CSS / Java script for feeding Real time Dashboard.

Pune

Project Lead and Product Manager: Own the Product roadmap and drive its rollout. Own its positioning, and ensure best fitment functionally and technically to enable “Go to Market” readiness.Currently I'm working with “TCS Tools Group”, leading two products “TCS MasterCraft Application Performance Monitor” and “TCS Next Generation Production Support” initiative.Area of ResponsibilityProduct Review:• Responsible for managing the scope and preparing road map of the product• Reviewing and analysing Change Management Requests. Evaluates both customer and product centric, changes (generic and non-generic features)• Conducting technical feasibility for the proposed changes & deciding on the same.• Over-all ownership (conception to release) of a Product Release/Version.Product Implementation & Support: • Interacting with customer on implementation related issues and offering all assistance to Implementation & ensure smooth roll out• Collaborating with delivery managers in ensuring all functional requirements are addressed during implementation.• Periodically interfacing with support teams to identify key product issues and participate in architecture reviews and code inspections.• Assist in product third party software installation/upgrades and setup system parametersDevelopment & Delivery: • Guiding the product development team on design, development and testing activities for customization as well as new development.• To ensure users & delivery teams are effectively trained in the product features and processes that optimize the usage of the product.• Developing training documentation (User manuals, reference guides, best- practices/lessons learnt etc.)Pre-Sales Business: • Understanding Market needs & Developing Market-based Product strategies.• Understanding and coordinating client’s needs / enhancements, and consult with technical team to provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules.

Domain Lead (CDMA OAM – 1xRTT, Framework, Tools, & SSS ) :Nov 2007 - Present - Provide technical leadership for the domain’s quality, maintainability, dependability, capacity and performance. Own production code;- Identify and pull in appropriate SMEs, Acting as the single point of contact for requests to review project deliverables (Documents and code)- Recommendation of CRs for back-propagation.- Review DD, HLD, TP, and test cases for requirements compliance and traceability.- Approval of code after Code Review/inspection.- Advise project management and release management team.- Advice and mentor team members.- Resolve technical disagreements.- Be the prime contact for technical issues relating to a domain.

Worked as a Software Developer for developing the Open System Application. Major highlights of the waork is coding, testing, imlementing solution at customer site.- Added the features for synchronizing time using NTP in this monitoring system, which was essential to monitor the wide I-watch network deployed over 400 (targeted 800) ICICI ATM locations all over India. Client / Server model was adopted having a MySql Database running on the server. The client module was programmed in C to send its status to server.-Successfully completed the Hot-Swap Module for OptiNAS. OptiNAS is an upcoming Product which is basically a NAS (Network Attached Storage) machine. OptiNAS uses the RAID technology for the fault tolerant backup system. OptiNAS is targeted to the banking domain, which can be used for scheduling &, managing backup from different servers. The system is running on LINUX kernel 2.4.26 which is embedded on to 128MB DOM (DISK ON MODULE) chip. Since System deploys 2 HDD for backup mirroring (RAID -1 Level).I was responsible for making the Hot-Swap drivers that will work with OptiNAS in case of crash.

Worked in a web-based environment for HP (Hewlett Packard) project involving Home PCs troubleshooting via Voice. This project involves technical adaptation including networking basics etc. Use of e-CRM tools like People Soft's VANTIVE and ICARE. Worked with the voice-based support for HP Pavilion Desktop computers. This project also involves troubleshooting different versions of Microsoft Windows OS [XP, 98, ME]. Researched on many aspects of OS, and got understanding how Windows works at an internals level.