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Director R&D & Operations, Director R&D, Director Software Engineering

United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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Product Development & Cloud Adoption Expert

InnovationC (Programming Language)Java (Programming Language)Microsoft WindowsArtificial IntelligenceAmazon Web ServicesData AnalysisArchitectureCost Benefit AnalysisBig DataCustomer Relationship ManagementC++ (Programming Language)Call CentersCloud ComputingContinuous IntegrationDesign ThinkingLinuxDevOpsElasticsearchScalabilityMachine LearningMongoDBNatural Language ProcessingNetwork Functions VirtualizationOpen Source TechnologyOpenStackProduct EngineeringPublic CloudResearch and DevelopmentBlockchainScalaSoftware EngineeringUnified CommunicationsGrafanaLow LatencyCassandraApache KafkaWeb TechnologiesVideo StreamingMicroservices
Analytics, Big Data, Cloud and DevOps Expertise
* Expertise in Video Analytics using big data technologies like Kafka, Cassandra and Scala
* Expertise in Building Multi-Cloud (private and public cloud) and platform agnostic strategy
* Built cloud native products on AWS with open source technologies
* Strong background in migrating high throughput low latency applications like Video Streaming products to Public (AWS) , Private (OpenStack) Cloud platforms and NFV-CBAM
* Successfully addressed Architectural challenges- Micro services, Elastic scalability and Multi tenancy
* DevOps and CI/CD: Building strategy to Execution - End to End DevOps expertise.
* Exposure to Opensource technologies: DevOps, Containers, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Grafana

Product Development
* Domain Expertise: Big Data, Video Streaming, Unified Communications, Contact Center, Web Technologies
* Cloud Platforms: AWS, OpenStack and NFV-CBAM
* Development stack Expertise: C++, C and Java; OS: Linux and Windows
* Expertise in Product Architecture, Performance and Scalability
* Experience in global Customer management, Customer projects and experience turnarounds.
* Exposure to new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, NLP and Blockchain.
* Innovation initiatives: Hackathons, Innovation projects and applying Design Thinking Process.

Languages

EnglishFluent

Project history

Director R&D & Operations

Velocix
Director R&D and Engineering operations
* Leading the Velocix Operations team responsible for the M&A activities in
India
* Heading the Engineering Operations and Production services
* Driving R&D Efficiency Improvement Program at global level
Achievements
*Built the Financial and Operational plan for the Velocix Merger & Acquisition
activities
*Successfully built an OpenStack based private cloud platform with 7000
virtual core compute capacity in Chennai and London -> Migrated all
Engineering activities to the Private Cloud
*Successfully addressing the architectural challenges of migrating On-Prem
high throughput low latency products to the cloud
*Built Cloud First products with Open Source technologies like Elastic Search,
MongoDB, Graphana and Consul and integration with AWS S3 storage.
*R&D Efficiency Improvement plan by working with the internal and external
stake holders - across four major areas: Customer Management, Architecture,
Testing and Release Management
*A new release model was developed with three streams (Feature, Integration
and Release) to improve the Time to Market by 25%
*Integration Stream delivery pipeline automated the test workflow and
graduated the product-build through various testing phasesfunctional
regression, security, performance, upgrade and migration
*Accelerated the DevOps transformation-> 80 racks of lab equipment moved
to a co-location data center which reduced the operational cost by 30% and
improved the overall R&D efficiency.
*Successfully completed the IT and R&D systems transition from Nokia to
Velocix within 3months
*Co-development with partners and contractors: Accelerated the product
roadmap and time to market with co-development
*Conceptualized and Implemented 200-seater modern R&D office -
>Completed in a record time of 12 weeks and adhering to the budget

Director R&D

Nokia
* Headed the global Cloud adoption and DevOps Transformation Program
* Lead the global R&D for CDN-Cloud & DevOps, Multicast ABR, Broadcast
Optimizer products
* Delivered the Cloud Transformation Program (Kaizen) - to make products
platform agnostic and support Bare Metal, AWS, OpenStack, NFV in a generic
way
* Optimized the product release qualification cycle from 8weeks to 2 weeks
(1/4th) and significantly improved the installation and upgrade cycles
* Built a CI/CD plan to reduce test feedback cycle from 8 weeks to 24hrs

Director Software Engineering

Avaya
* Lead the Unified Communication Applications R&D team in Pune

Director R&D

EXFO
Led the Wireline Protocol R&D team in Pune

Engineering Director - Genesys India

Genesys
Headed the Genesys India Center of Excellence (CoE) R&D center in India
with multiple product lines

Engineering Director - Application Group India R&D

Alcatel-Lucent
? Led the multi-site Applications R&D team

Global Development Leader - Instant Convergent Charging (ICC)

Alcatel-Lucent

General Manager

Alcatel-Lucent

Senior Manager

Alcatel-Lucent

Systems Manager

Wipro Technologies

Onsite Manager

Wipro Technologies

Lead Developer

Wipro Technologies

Deputy Manager

BPL Mobile

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