Sohrab Modi

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Brings over thirty years of experience as a technology executive that drives digital transformation to deliver hyper growth business impact. @ DreamHammer
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Oakland, California, United States, United States
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About Sohrab Modi

Holding senior positions at Adesto, Echelon, Sun Microsystems, Novell, and Futurewei, I have brought future-state thinking in the edge, cloud, and big data segments, to grow into revenue scaling opportunities. My leadership role in the delivery and execution of the industry’s leading clustering and systems management products drove a billion dollar a year business for Sun Microsystems, and would lead to pioneering products in today’s cloud computing and big data offerings.• Drove the modernization of Echelon’s legacy Industrial IoT edge products, and its successful acquisition by Adesto Technologies, followed by rapid acquisition of Adesto Technology by Dialog Semiconductor. • Developed and deployed tens of thousands of Industrial IoT edge nodes across multiple cities over an RF mesh, and delivered Echelon’s 1st cloud to manage the operation and lifecycle of these devices.• Personally, engaged with Siemens, Ericsson, and @home to win multimillion-dollar repeatable business.• Drove a five-hundred-person product group around clustering, distributed systems, high performance computing, and systems management to deliver a billion dollar a year business for Sun Microsystems.• Drove the technical and product leadership at Futurewei, and its early participation in Open Compute. • Drove the corporate sponsorship for Swisscom, Reliance Telecom, and Tata Consulting Services, while championing the Oracle, Veritas, Sun partnership. • Drove a strategic relationship with IBM and jointly presented at industry conferences.• Developed and deployed AI enabled edge cameras for traffic congestion insights in multiple cities. • Developed and delivered early “cloud,” virtualization, and map-reduce products/tools.• Developed and delivered early P2P file systems and a multiprotocol virtual data fabric.• Successfully enabled open source (N1 grid engine) to compete with leading deep pocketed HPC workload schedulers.• Delivered early clustered load balancing systems. and built and delivered several multi-protocol networking products. Delivered remote shared memory systems for Oracle RAC

Sohrab Modi's Current Company Details
DreamHammer

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Brings over thirty years of experience as a technology executive that drives digital transformation to deliver hyper growth business impact.
Sohrab Modi Work Experience Details
  • Dreamhammer
    Senior Vice President
    Dreamhammer Jul 2024 - Present
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    DreamHammer revolutionizes the energy sector (O&G) by leveraging AI and geospatial data to drive operational efficiency and mitigate risks. Our innovative SaaS platform empowers decision-makers with actionable insights, optimizing everything from drilling operations to spill prevention.My role involves building and implementing AI-driven tools and a product ecosystem to improve environmental sustainability, while enhancing efficiency and safety, through advanced AI techniques.
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  • Racon Solutions
    Strategic Advisor
    Racon Solutions Apr 2024 - Present
    RaCon empowers businesses with time-of-use (ToU) energy solutions, optimizing costs through grid-certified BESS and cutting-edge technology. As a technical and strategic advisor, I collaborate directly with clients to address their power and grid-related challenges.
  • I20 Services
    Executive Consultant
    I20 Services Sep 2021 - Present
    For multiple projects/companies in:• Networking for AI: Incubation of a “cost efficient” circuit switched optical network capable of delivering 400Gbs link guarantees to a 2000 node Nvidia H100 clustered environment.• Financial services: A customer facing solution for real time personalized disclosure documents through a flexible API framework, and powered by a highly scalable, available AWS serverless computing framework.• Smart Ports: consulting on a level 4 ADAS autonomous vehicle solution that provides continuous, dependable, and green Smart Port mover solutions used for servicing ships/cargo. • Multi-cloud storage: Incubating a community around a highly scalable mesh overlay, storage platform with blockchain like security. The datastore is immutable, highly available, uses content based addressing, and capable of expressing relationships between blocks of storage across multiple public clouds.• Advisor to multiple companies in the AI/ML space.
  • Small Scale Farms
    Board Member
    Small Scale Farms May 2020 - Present
    Small Scale Farms, is a small grass roots initiative designed to help the marginalized small farmers across the globe make a fair living by leveraging the power of community. Calling themselves as the largest farmer in the world (without a farm), its focus is on uplifting the small farmers in improvised village districts with a reliable supply chain and distribution for their produce.
  • Akasiacloud
    Cto And Executive Vice President (Interim)
    Akasiacloud Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
    San Jose, California, Us
    Enabling cloud transformations by modeling price, performance and risks for customers in cloud deployments.- Created a strategic roadmap and investor pitch for product evolution with a revenue conversion plan. - Onboarded new software engineers, enforced agile and DevOps processes, and drove engineering, testing, staging and production deployment best practices. - Created deployment redundancy across regions with a homegrown alert framework, containerization, security analysis, pen certification, and a plan to scale the SaaS deployment for explosive growth.- Delivered product requirements to close two large deals. Made introductions to investors and partners.- Drove the AI technology plan for on-prem to cloud transformations using NLP/transformers.
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  • Adesto Technologies
    Chief Strategy Officer
    Adesto Technologies 2018 - Jun 2020
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Acquired by Dialog Semiconductor, PLCDefined the corporate direction for technology and business for the Industrial IoT, from semiconductors and embedded systems, to data fabrics, AI, and Cloud systems.- Drove Adesto’s Industrial IoT vision and strategy, with analysts, customers, media, and partners. - Presented technology and products at industry conferences (IBM, GSA, AHR, and other IoT conferences). - Drove the IBM/NXP partnership. Built a prototype edge server with NXP security chips to demonstrate secure AI generated insights on IBM Watson IoT cloud.- Defined a disruptive virtual data fabric and data orchestration for AI in the Industrial IoT. - Mentored engineering students at Stanford University for a graduate level class on product management.
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  • Dell Emc
    Fde Board Member
    Dell Emc 2015 - 2020
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    External committee member to review and nominate candidates for DELL/EMC senior technical leadership team.
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  • Echelon
    Chief Technology Officer
    Echelon Aug 2014 - Sep 2018
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Acquired by Adesto Technologies.Echelon is a global leader in embedded Industrial IoT connectivity, with 29M smart energy meters deployed in Italy, and over 140M deployments in the buildings, transportation, entertainment, retail, and manufacturing sectors. I drove the corporate strategy, vision, roadmap and delivery for all Echelon software, hardware, chips, and cloud technologies. Brought future-state thinking to IoT and positioned and drove the company for a successful buyout.- Drove the intellectual portfolio, & presented the company vision, strategy, and products - Engaged with key customers and forged relationships with key partners.- Conceived, developed and deployed a cost-efficient edge-based AI camera for city traffic congestion and parking deployments – Edison report 2017 top ten list.- Drove a Proof of Concept on Weather Adaptive Lighting with IBM Watson & city of White Bear Lake. - Drove the UI/UX experience to manage the lifecycle of devices both at the edge and cloud.- Drove the investor presentations for a successful acquisition of Echelon.
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  • Echelon
    Senior Vice President Development
    Echelon 2014 - 2018
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Drove the development and transformation of the 150M+ legacy devices into modern web enabled edge and cloud solutions.- Delivered and deployed industry award winning IoT edge servers and edge nodes (hardware and software). Delivered, and deployed a secure, proprietary RF mesh solution for outdoor lighting and smart city controls. - Delivered and deployed Echelon’s first cloud, to manage the lifecycle of 1000’s of city-wide devices.- Delivered a fifth generation, controller chip with 256bit encryption, for powerline communications.- Key contributor in the successful acquisition of Echelon, from banker selection, due diligence, to contract and public company regulatory compliance.
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  • Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Technical Vice President
    Futurewei Technologies, Inc. 2009 - 2014
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    The central research and development division, provided the core common platform to all the business units. As CTO, I drove substantial improvements to technical and process capabilities across the organization; in, operating systems, virtualization, mobile, cloud, open cellular and developer platforms, and bigdata.- Defined Huawei's software strategy and multi-year roadmap, for the 8000-person engineering organization. - Influenced a culture of open-source software participation across multiple divisions and drove Huawei’s successful participation in Open Compute.- Engaged with global customers, and delivered the vision, and technology pitches at several conferences.- Built a team to charter three major initiatives: SDN/NFV, Big-data and Platform as a Service.
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  • Beehive Utility
    Founder
    Beehive Utility Mar 2009 - Aug 2009
    Beehive Utility created an easy to deploy multi-cloud based Map Reduce software appliance with multi-cluster object stores to manage big data analytics in a private or public cloud. Engaged in trials with SETI.
  • Sun Microsystems
    Vice President Of Technology
    Sun Microsystems 2006 - 2009
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Researched and influenced key emerging technologies with future-state initiatives for Sun Microsystems. Reported to CTO and Executive Vice President for Sun Microsystems and the Executive Vice President for Sun’s cloud division.- Pioneering investments into the emerging Hadoop/Big Table movement and drove solutions for massively distributed software web technologies by leveraging disruptive big data and MySQL solutions.- Incubated high throughput, low latency, software based networking using Sun’s multi-threading chipsets.- Developed and integrated key high-performance computing products for Sun’s PaaS-enabled public cloud.
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  • Sun Microsystems
    Executive Sponsor
    Sun Microsystems 2006 - 2009
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Sun's executive sponsor to Swisscom, Reliance Telecommunications, Macquarie Bank, Tata Consultancy Services
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  • Sun Microsystems
    Vice President And General Manager
    Sun Microsystems 2004 - 2006
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Ran the N1 systems division, with responsibility for the convergence of software virtualization, provisioning, systems management, application lifecycle management, telemetry, automation, resource management, and high availability.- Created one of the industry’s first products to enable a cloud platform. Products used in Sun’s cloud.- Ran a global division of 500+ employees, and drove a top revenue generating software product at Sun. - Built an efficient organization going from 4 to 14 predictable repeatable product releases/year, while also delivering a 13% cost reduction and enabling a billion-dollar clustering business for Sun. - Won repeatable business from large European customers through strategic placement of development groups. - Created a pre-sales ambassador group to support sales with the expertise to close large deals.- Personally, engaged with a senior vice president at Siemens to win a repeatable Telco systems business.- Enabled the Open Storage Program for certification and support of 3rd party storage devices with Sun Cluster.- Drove a successful level 4 / 5 support (product escalation) group, that also drove the support for Sun’s professional services organizations.- Championed a Sun wide Sigma initiative on availability budgeting for “all” of Sun's products.
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  • Sun Microsystems
    Director Of Engineering
    Sun Microsystems 1995 - 2003
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Defined the technology roadmap, strategy, and program requirements for the High Availability Products Group; analyzed and optimized a suite of technical products, including high availability and disaster recovery solutions for Enterprise and Telecom deployments. Influenced stakeholders at all levels to participate in Open Standards. Built and managed a strong relationship with vendors such as IBM, HP, NetApp, and Hitachi.
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  • Novell Inc
    Engineering Manager
    Novell Inc 1990 - 1995
    Provo, Ut, Us
    Various engineering leadership and management roles related to disruptive products in networking and distributed systems. Drove a key relationship with Apple.
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Sohrab Modi Skills

Cloud Computing Enterprise Software Virtualization Distributed Systems Saas High Availability Product Management Software Development Data Center Mobile Devices Networking Architecture Storage Strategy Cluster Scalability System Architecture Linux Systems Management It Strategy Big Data Wireless High Performance Computing Agile Methodologies Enterprise Architecture Operating Systems Integration Testing Software Engineering Unix Technical Leadership Open Source Disaster Recovery Servers Solution Architecture Automation Pre Sales Multithreading Tcp/ip Mysql Solaris Hadoop Paas Hardware Middleware Perl Change Management Shell Scripting Software Design Soa

Sohrab Modi Education Details

  • Rochester Institute Of Technology
    Rochester Institute Of Technology
    Computer Science
  • University Of Mumbai
    University Of Mumbai
    Physics

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