Prashanth Shimoga

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Founder and Chief Solutions Strategist @ Gigglemug Systems
Bengaluru, KA, IN
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• Founded and built a successful startup from the ground up, leading all aspects of business strategy, operations, and growth.• Developed and executed the company's vision, mission, and business plans, aligning them with market opportunities and customer needs.• Led product development initiatives, working closely with the team to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs.• Successfully negotiated and closed deals with strategic partners and clients, expanding the company's reach and market presence.• Spearheaded the strategic planning and execution of the company's IT infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.• Collaborated with key stakeholders to identify technology needs, evaluate vendors, and negotiate contracts, resulting in cost savings and improved service delivery.• Developed and executed IT strategies aligned with organizational goals enabling business growth and enhancing operational efficiency.• Fostered a culture of innovation within the IT department, encouraging creative problem-solving and continuous improvement.• Managed complex IT programs from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timely delivery of outcomes.• Led cross-functional teams, coordinated project activities, and fostered collaboration among stakeholders to achieve project goals.• Managed end-to-end execution of BOT projects, ensuring successful delivery and transfer of operations to the client.• Led product development from conception to launch, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap.• Worked closely with the development team in agile environments, participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews.• Designed and implemented QA strategies, frameworks, and processes to ensure efficient and effective software testing practices across the organization.• Defined quality metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), monitoring them to drive continuous improvement and meet customer expectations.• Defined and documented QA best practices and standards, ensuring consistent and high-quality testing throughout the software development life cycle.• Developed and maintained the QA architecture, including test automation frameworks, tools, and environments.• Implemented test automation frameworks and tools, improving test coverage and accelerating testing cycles.• Built and managed a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.

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Gigglemug Systems

Gigglemug Systems

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Founder and Chief Solutions Strategist
Bengaluru, KA, IN
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Prashanth Shimoga Work Experience Details
  • Gigglemug Systems
    Founder And Chief Solutions Strategist
    Gigglemug Systems
    Bengaluru, Ka, In
  • Gigglemug Systems
    Founder & Chief Solutions Strategist
    Gigglemug Systems Sep 2021 - Present
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    • Founding own IT company, Gigglemug Systems Private Limited at Bangalore, India.• Led Ideation & Solution Design to Product Realization of 2 Products in IT Infrastructure and Consumer Electronics space respectively.• Designed and delivered the IT Infrastructure for a Call Centre• Designed & Proposed BOT model for India operations for a global leading automotive industry customer.• Successfully delivered the complete software solution, both application and AWS Cloud infrastructure, integrating with a hardware solution for a European fashion industry client.• Successfully designed GPS/GSM GPRS vehicle tracker for India customer.• Successfully designed IoT based packaging and software Wetmap solution for European customer.• Successfully developed and delivered an RFP solution response to implement a Payment Gateway Services for an UK client.
  • Tata Consultancy Services
    Associate Consultant
    Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
    • Played the key role of Technical QA Consultant for the Organization as well supported in business development
  • Tata Consultancy Services
    Associate Consultant
    Tata Consultancy Services Jul 2015 - Jan 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Program Test Manager – IT Infrastructure Testing – Nationwide Building Society (NBS), Swindon, UK - Onsite Played the key role of Technical QA consultant for the organization as well supported in business development & overall delivery as a portfolio consultant. Key Projects Delivered at NBS Program Test Manager & Hands-On – Windows 10 Migration across NBS’s Admin & Retail domains. This included Physical & VDI. This cut across; New Windows 10 OS Build & Deployment across both Physical and Virtual devices, Citrix, Desktop Application Compatibility Testing on Windows 10, McAfee and New VPN Infrastructure setup, provisioning, and service. Held the responsibility of Program Test Strategy, Planning, Management & Delivery. Test Lead & Hands-On – SailPoint’s IdentityIQ - Identify Access Management (IAM) implementation – Test Strategy, Planning, Management & Delivery. Test Manager & Hands-On – CyberArk’s Privileged Access Manager (PAM) implementation – Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Management & Delivery. Program Test Manager – Spring – Org wide ITSM technology transformation of the tools and process and along with transition to multiple new service vendors. Program Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Management & Delivery. Key Projects Consulted: Program Test Strategy Development MS Server 2016 Enterprise Rollout - Physical & Virtual, MS 2016 Server build and deployment across various deployable configurations for the consumption across new projects at Nationwide. AD Modernisation – Uplifting Nationwide’s AD environment to enhance the future technology growth with enhanced security. Thales’s Hardware Security Module (HSM) Upgrade – Upgrade of Thale’s ProtectServer HSM for multiple CAs. AppDynamics Application Performance Monitoring Implementation across few key business applications. Lakeside SysTrack Implementation in monitoring digital experience that gathers and analyses data on everything that may impact end-user experience and business productivity
  • Tata Consultancy Services
    Associate Consultant
    Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    I worked as an Infrastructure Test Delivery Manager for one of the largest professional services networks in the world. This had UK and US wings.I delivered a comprehensive infrastructure test strategy across UK and built a team of testers to handle various projects. This needed in-depth knowledge of infrastructure, analyzing capabilities, solutioning, implementation strategy including resourcing and success measurement criteria & metrics. Based on the success story of UK, this was extended to US region as well.
  • Tata Consultancy Services
    Associate Consultant
    Tata Consultancy Services Aug 2012 - Dec 2013
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    I worked as a Test Delivery Manager for a US company specialized in software for the creation and publication of a wide range of content. The company were upgrading their eCommerce site across the European Region covering as many languages. The releases were already planned and was dynamic in nature. This needed a Test Delivery.The challenge for test delivery was to plan the resources without impacting the budget, delivery quality and adhering to strict timelines. Added challenge was to train the resources in a very short time. Dynamic resourcing – ramping up and ramping down the resources based on the various release dates. The team grew up to 15 at peak with a minimal number to 5 within a span of 8 months.
  • Tata Consultancy Services
    Associate Consultant
    Tata Consultancy Services Nov 2011 - Jul 2012
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    I worked as a Test Manager for an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company. This was a Storage product firmware testing which had 3 different QA teams based out at Bengaluru and Lucknow, India. The team size was 30+.My role was to manage complete QA delivery, technical advisor, and stake holder management. Apart from delivery management, this required in-depth knowledge on RAID & Storage technologies with knowledge on various communication and connectivity protocols.
  • Dell
    Test Advisor
    Dell Dec 2010 - Oct 2011
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    I worked at Dell as a Test Advisor, the role is similar to a Senior Test Expert or SME. I was part of the Enterprise Test Team of Dell PowerEdge Rack Mount Servers. As part of my role, I used to qualify the server performance for the Enterprise applications like Database, Mail, File, and Web. This required the test server to be setup from scratch as listed below:• HW configurations (CPU, DIMM, HDD, RAID Controller, NIC and FC PCIe adapters), • FW updates of various components (CPLD, BMC, BIOS and other available adapters)• Setting up external storage (FC & iSCSI) • OS Installation on local storage (Linux, Windows, VMWare ESX & ESXi using Dell Utilities or manually)• Installing enterprise applications on local or external storage.• Configuring IXIA and LoadRunner tools to generate traffic to the enterprise applications connected through the server and stress test the server for 120 continuous hours.• Capture the various server and application parameters and analyze the performance.This was a fabulous experience in handling various Dell PowerEdge variants, various Dell Utilities along with IXIA & LoadRunner tools. Analyzing the test results enhanced my knowledge.
  • Mindtree
    Test Manager
    Mindtree Jun 2009 - Dec 2010
    Started as a Test Lead at Mindtree and went on to become a Test Manager. I was involved some critical projects and new assignments. I was mostly involved with Product QA and automation of System Software Infrastructure systems. Cisco through MindtreeI was involved in winning a new customer and setting up the complete delivery center at offshore customer location.I worked as a Test Manager for Cisco UCS. The assignment was to OS compatibility testing of their Newly built into the market UCS Rack Servers.This was a new assignment for Mindtree in the OS compatibility space. I was identified Test Manager to lead the entire team.As a Test Manager, post initial knowledge sharing session at USA headquarters, set up a complete Test Environment at the offshore location of the customer. Built a team of 6 initially which scaled up to 17 within 6 months, to support OS compatibility for Linux, Windows & VMWare ESX.
  • Mindtree
    Test Manager
    Mindtree May 2008 - May 2009
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    LSI Storage through MindtreeI worked as a Test Manager at LSI Storage managing a large team of 23 working across 6 streams. Team worked across qualifying LSI Storage Controller Firmware Functionalities and Features including the Host software.Apart from being hands-on on the LSI Storage Controller Firmware Interoperability testing across Linux flavors, played the role of Local Onsite Co-Ordinator and SPOC to the customer.As hands-on test engineer, my was job focused on:• Building the SAN test bed having SAN switches and various FC, iSCSI, and SAS HBAs.• Execute LSI RAID Controller interoperability tests on Linux (RHEL & SLES) flavors.• Evaluated various RAID features which included RAID creation, deletion, LUN degrade & rebuild, controller fail over, drive fail over and controller mirroring.
  • Mindtree Ltd.
    Test Lead
    Mindtree Ltd. Jul 2006 - Apr 2008
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    First opportunity in career as a Lead at Mindtree, I worked as a Test Lead at LSI Storage. The engagement was about developing an automated LSI Controller Firmware Test Infrastructure along with testing. The objective of this framework was to help both firmware developer and testers to selectively execute unit, system, and integration Controller Firmware tests as and when required. As a test lead, my role involved delivery ownership, designing automation strategy in discussion with feature owners, design and implementation reviews, and technical guidance to the team.
  • Wipro Technologies
    Senior Software Engineer
    Wipro Technologies Mar 2005 - Jul 2006
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    Worked for Brocade through WiproAs a senior engineer, I played the role of an individual contributor in Firmware testing of Brocade SAN Switches. This was a 7-member team qualifying the various functionalities and features of the FC SAN switch.The testing covered below features of Brocade SAN Switches:• Building test bed and maintaining the complete test lab.• Test Zoning, Routing and Trunking features.• Involved in RSCN testing.• Development of automated of test suite using TCL/Expect.This provided with an opportunity to understand the SAN landscape in detail. I could gain good knowledge FC protocol, Zoning, Routing and Trunking. The RSCN testing on Finisar helped me to analyze the FC packets to get that expert knowledge on FC SAN, which made me more confident and created a passion to get deeper into the IT infrastructure components. On top of this, automation gave me the edge over others.
  • Hp
    Software Engineer
    Hp 2003 - 2005
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    Oh!! A dream come true for me. I always dreamed about working at HP since it was a UNIX based company and the logo design & the caption inspired me, HP – invent. I fell in love with UNIX since my UTTARA days at Bengaluru.This is where I moved into the world of QA from development, although this role needed strong firmware knowledge & development skills in C and Unix. This was a new and the first Firmware QA team of 5 members which was formed at Bengaluru.As an individual contributor, I was to qualify HP Manageability Processor Firmware on HP Low End Servers. The features included:• CLI testing of Firmware.• Session testing through telnet/web, local port, and modem connections.• Functional Security testing of SSH.• IPMI over LAN used for acquiring information about the HW platform.• Functional Testing LDAP, DHCP and DNS.• Group actions – HP Systems Insight Manager.• Licensing.• Developing automated test suits using Perl, TCL/Expect.Since HP was introducing all these new features into their products, provided me with a great opportunity to learn various new infrastructure technologies and features. IPMI, SSH, LDAP, DHCP, DNS & HP SIM were few to name. I had to read through RFC of these technologies and derive test plans – a great learning.Apart from these, I had the opportunity to use my programming skills to develop automation scripts using Perl & TCL/Expect.Based on the success of this assignment, we expanded into a bigger team with more areas added. I am happy that I could contribute to the success of this team.
  • Ramsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
    Software Design Engineer
    Ramsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2002 - Mar 2003
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    What a feeling when you first get into a job your interested area of work. Yes, this was my first job in my career and dream job to work on Unix systems as a developer – QA was not heard much in those days. Developer played QA roles.GTRE through RamsoftI worked as an Embedded System and Firmware developer at GTRE, my first client. It was such learning and working with top notch scientists.As individual contributor I worked on:LCA’s (Kaveri – the marine version of LCA) Digital Engine Control Unit (DECU) developing fuel control unit embedded software using C and VxWorks. This required understanding of the various sensor electronics, in-depth knowledge of RTOS, Assembly & C Programming language and embedded systems programming concepts. It was fun and great experience to work on VxWorks early in your career.
  • Ramsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
    Software Design Engineer
    Ramsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Jul 2001 - Dec 2001
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    GTRE through RamsoftAs part of another assignment at GTRE, I worked on:Kaveri Monitoring System (KMS) developing embedded application software to monitor the various electronics of the Kaveri engine. This required understanding of the various components of the systems including sensors. It needed knowledge in communication protocols, Analog & Digital electronics along with programming expertise C, RTOS concepts and Embedded Systems programming concepts. C was used on the programming language on QNX RTOS to develop this complete application.
  • Ramsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
    Software Design Engineer
    Ramsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Jul 2000 - Jun 2001
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    First project in my career, started as a developer and developed the complete software for Fleet Management System for BMTC, Karnataka, India.BMTC were to implement RFID systems into their Fleet of buses to track the timings. The solution had a RFID Tag and Reader from Texas Instruments. The aim of this project was to receive the Real time information from the RFID Reader with an RS432 interface and store it on a computer system for further analysis and usage.It needed skills in Serial communications protocols like RS-232 & RS-432, Assembly & C programming languages, developing Interrupt Service Routines (ISR), Data Structure and MS DOS.I could successfully develop the solution, initially I made simple but critical mistakes – ‘malloc issue’, which helped me to dig deep to understand Embedded System Development. This project really helped me to get confident about my capabilities, exposed my improvement areas, as well induced a passion towards C & Embedded Systems.

Prashanth Shimoga Skills

C And Assembly On Vxworks And Qnx Linux Fibre Channel Raid Vxworks C Software Design Embedded Software Testing Vmware Operating Systems Firmware Hp Ux Requirements Analysis Shell Scripting Test Automation Perl

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Prashanth Shimoga works for Gigglemug Systems

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Prashanth Shimoga's current role is Founder and Chief Solutions Strategist.

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Prashanth Shimoga attended Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru National College Of Engineering.

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Prashanth Shimoga has skills like C And Assembly On Vxworks And Qnx, Linux, Fibre Channel, Raid, Vxworks, C, Software Design, Embedded Software, Testing, Vmware, Operating Systems, Firmware.

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