Venkat Krishnan N, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Driving Innovation and Building Next-Gen AI SolutionsSpearheading projects leveraging Generative AI, including:Conversation AI Simulator (CAISY): Enhancing difficult conversation training with new innovative features like guided conversations, adding traits to behaviours.AI Assistant: Delivering intuitive, intelligent solutions to augment user experiences.Search and Recommendations: Advancing search capabilities with metadata improvements, semantic search, and personalized recommendations.Customer and Community Engagement: Represented Skillsoft in key engagements demonstrating responsible AI practices. Innovation: Led team in brainstorming and prototyping to introduce transformative features Looking Ahead: Focused on scaling innovation through broader collaboration, integrating customer feedback into product strategies, and driving feature development to deliver exceptional value.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Heading application engineering for two B2B SAAS product lines namely Accessibility Insight and Data extraction. Accessibility is an AI powered platform to assess and remediate documents for global accessibility standards. SAAS platform enables visually impaired to navigate through documents using AI/ML so that data in them can be successfully interpreted. Experience with engineering stack includes understanding of following - Presentation layer - UI framework based on HTML5/CSS3, Leverages ReactJS for presentation layer, Ajax calls for client-server communication Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning – Working with Datasets, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Prediction driven by Machine Learning/Deep Learning using frameworks such as AWS Sagemaker, PyTorch and Yolov5.Application instance deployed on AWS EC2, Assets stored in Amazon S3 for secure, optimized access Microservices framework made available via Rest API  Data Extraction is also a B2B SAAS platform to extract key value pairs from PDF documents, redact information based on sensitivity of key value pair While my responsibilities were predominantly in Product Engineering, I work very closely with Product Management in ironing out the requirements and bringing clarity. The most interesting part has been to work with Product management team to connect the dots and ensure the requirements are well understood by the engineering and product teams.

Chennai Area, India

As part of the Delivery Head (DUH) for several engagements with leading Storage OEMs, responsibilities include managing the delivery of all programs to meet the schedule, quality and budget, managing the operations that include people, infrastructure and support processes, and owning the P&L for the unit. The programs span over the entire spectrum of technologies like HyperConverged Infrastructure(HCI), CI, Routing, Switching, Security, Datacenter, Network Management, . Most of the programs span across the entire product life cycle including Product management, Engineering and Sustaining. 2016-17: 1. Head for L2-L3 Sustaining/Development - Product line: Brocade MLX, XMR, Fast Iron and Big Iron (RX) 2. Team working on Application delivery controllers with responsibilities of Development, Sustaining, Test and Test Automation Product: ServerIron ADX (L4-L7 Server Load Balancing/ Switching/Networking)Oct 2018 - Sep 21Head of HCL-Nutanix EngagementHead of Application Delivery Controller UnitApril 2021 OnwardsHeading the following programs as part of HCL Dell RelationshipHCL Dell Apps Program in Data Protection space DPA Server Validation Program

Chennai Area, India

• Heading a 70 member team comprising two separate teams (different BUs) at HCL-Brocade ODCo Application Delivery Controllers working on Layer 4 to 7 Feature development, Testing and Sustaining. Product – ServerIron ADX XMLAPI Project: An XML interface was developed which provides a standard way for the end- users to access the ADX programmatically. The platform independence is attained through the use of XML (SOAP over HTTP) as the medium for information exchange Development of Perl based clients to consume web service API exposed on the ServerIron ADX Automation of Regression features like IPNAT, CSW, Health Check, LACP etc using TCL scripting language Functional Verification testing of new L4-L7 Server load balancing features – Multi tenancy, Config Sync IP Development and Sustaining teams working on Layer 2 - Layer 3 development and Sustaining. Product – MLX, XMR, BigIron (RX)

Moved from Manageability team to work on Server Iron ADX which is a L4-L7 product. Had the opportunity to build a 38 member team from scratch. Have been successful in hiring the people with the right skill set, ramping team on L4-L7 space and delivering several releases both on SQA and Development front. Managing India based engineering teams working on the following:File Area NetworkingApplication Delivery Controllers working on Layer 4 to 7 Feature development, Testing and SustainingIP Development and Sustaining teams working on Layer 2 - Layer 3 development and Sustaining

United States

Global work experience in leading and building products using Java/J2EE stack of technologies with agile and waterfall methodologies.• Development of Brocade’s flagship Brocade Network Advisor (BNA)• DCFM-Integrated SMI Agent• Java based SMI Agent used to manage FOS switches• Java based SMI Agent used to manage EOS switches• CIM Provider for Brocade Adapter (support for SNIA SMI-S/DMTF DSP Profiles/sub profile) - The CIM provider for Brocade Adapters is based on Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) and is compatible with any CMPI compliant CIM Servers like OpenPegasus and SFCBFront ended SMI (Storage Management Initiative) Provider OEM (EMC, IBM) Qualification for Brocade

San Jose, California, United States

Executed the following projects through HCL for different SAN/Networking vendorsDevelopment of Java and C++ based SMI providers for Storage Array and HBA 's Development of Java based Query Builder Framework to get details of Host, HBA's, NAS and Storage Array managed by Storage management applicationDevelopment of management features for device managers (Java) for Storage Arrays and FilersDevelopment of iSCSI stack in CDevelopment of Multithreaded Streaming Server using C++ Development of iSCSI Management Test SpecificationDevelopment of iSCSI Management API (IMA) for a subset of IMA API specifications documentDevelopment of Java based Test Harness/Recipes for SAN vendors

Worked in HCL-Cisco ODC for CALLGEN, an IOS based bulk call generator. Developed applications to test Content Delivery Networking solutions

One Year General Management Program For Executives, General Management

Skilled in Business and management, Financial Management, Accounting, Human Resource Management, Quantitative methods and Operations.

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Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Master Of Science, Chemical Sciences

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