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.

• 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.
• 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

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

• 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.
• 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

• 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

US

• 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

CA

• 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.
• 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.
• 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