Sandeep Desai Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Enabling financial progress for everyone

Austin, Texas, Us

I architect and implement suites of communication solutions for low-power connected devices and ultra-low power, unidirectional devices. Bluetooth communication is vastly improved, and the libraries we provide drastically reduce time-to-market for a wide range of products: from simple sensors sending one-way data to smart devices requiring otherwise complex synchronization. Applications are practically unlimited, from medical, transportation, fitness, fashion, and beyond.

Acquired by Flex in 2007, Olio was a luxury smartwatch company that achieved over $1M in monthly sales and had thousands of monthly active watch owners. The Olio Model One was the most fashionable smart watch in the industry.• Led Android development efforts on both mobile and watch, managing a team of developers and contractors• Spearheaded recruiting activities for the Android team (including screening, interviews, and evaluations)• Monitored and triaged app quality and stability reports from Fabric crash reports, Google Play store feedback, Customer Support, Jira, and QA reports• Contributed to improving Agile processes and scrum efficiency• Highly effective teamwork with QA, Customer Support, Hardware and Firmware teams• Dramatically improved the mobile app rating from 2 stars 4+ stars

Emeryville, California, Us

Developed video streaming applications for multiscreen solutions – mobile, tablet, set-top box, and HDMI-dongle apps for multiple carriers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia/India• Led, mentored and managed teams of up to 15 Android and iOS engineers• Planned and prioritized sprints and tasks with product owners• Efficiently ran scrums and pre/post sprint planning meetings to increase team productivity• Continuous and transparent management of team workloads and plans using Jira and Confluence• Frequently removed or diverted the obstacles that were hindering team progress• Empowered the team to help define their individual trajectories and areas of innovation• Instilled a spirit of continuous improvement in the teams’ code and architecture, and a sense of collaboration and pride in the work they performed (including motivating them through less exciting tasks)• Led recruiting process of full-time and off-shore contract employees• 1-on-1s and performance management to cultivate leadership, coach engineers through their career development, and discipline underperformers• Remotely managed off-shore team• Collaborated extensively with Product Management and Design to define product strategy, provide technical leadership, and create/improve UI/UX• Improved app quality and engineering processes via better code review procedures, full CI, build, and release management, extensive Crashlytics/Fabric instrumentation and analysis, and being a strong supporter of QA and automated tests• Persuaded server team to rethink APIs and introduce "aggregators", drastically improving client efficiency (both UI responsiveness and network utilization)• Drove product- and company-level engineering efforts by working cross-functionally across server, operations, QA, design, product, and client teams• Steered several products from definition through FC, RC, and some post-release support

Managed mobile client-side engineering programs, focusing on wireless data analytics for carrier network performance (both wired and wireless protocols) and device-resident meters for analyzing end-user behavior, including Internet, application and multimedia consumption• Interfaced with every major North American mobile operator and some OEMs• Managed and collaborated with global professional service teams, developers, scientists, IT, etc. to ensure deliverables met high-level product requirements and detailed technical requirements• Directly aided leadership team in developing product roadmaps and other recognized revenue streams• Provided new product analysis and cost savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars• Performed recruitment, training, mentoring, and reviews for my own team and other teams• Responsible for every product phase: conception, development, beta, production, end-of-life• Designed and architected software and hardware solutions and platform-agnostic protocols• In-depth data analytics for both product and network performance

• Developed Symbian applications for consumer projects spanning messaging systems, video conferencing, and Bluetooth utilities• Reported directly to the President and influenced his management style to yield better and timelier results from the team• Mentored junior engineers to encourage self-sufficiency and promote good development skills• Advanced relationships for the company with customers like Nokia, TI, and HP

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• Developed consumer facing mobile PIM services based on HDML and WAP/WML• Ensured the solution worked well on a variety of platforms, including mobile PDAs from Palm and HP, and competing implementations of WAP standards from Openwave and Nokia• Developed a better user experience aided by a tight relationship with QA• Excellent relationships with Marketing and Product Support enabled them to create a better company image based on accurate, reliable engineering instead of sales gimmicks and guesses• Cemented relationships with partners like Nokia, Motorola, and Go2

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• Successfully led a team of 2-4 engineers in an on-time delivery of a multi-threaded TAPI-like service, part of a larger call-center (CTI) server with advanced Automatic Call Distribution features (ACD) and a 20+ member team• Redesigned large portions of the system to achieve more stability and better interoperability with other server/switch components, including reworking key areas of asynchronous communication, networking and event handling• Some project management experience coordinating activity of multiple groups while setting up a high-capacity testing lab• Achieved excellent report with external customers such as HP, IBM, and Dialogic (aided by my in-person site visits), assuring they remained happy with Nortel