Technologist with 20+ years of Embedded, Enterprise-Networking(Wired/ Wireless-WLAN), IoT, Machine learning, AI products development expertise. Strategic leader with strong business acumen and growth mindset. Well-rounded collaborative executive, with the ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, and motivate teams to deliver high impact results. Responsible for the key Ideas generation and translation of those ideas/concept into product reality and generate revenues for the company, roll-out Proof of concepts(Minimal Viable Product). Conduct technical product workshops and create “WoW” factor among the clients and pitch in for product expansions. As a system architect shipped embedded and defense-networking communications flagship products. Development of software complaint to the standards like RFC, ETSI, ITU, IEEE.Penchant towards doing AI and Machine Learning Research and Research oriented Products.Self-used to research & develop and would dedicate energies during spare-time towards developing POC prototypes at my garage labs. Passionate towards experimenting, building and innovating things.
Short Introduction
Technical Skills
- C,C++,Python,Go,Bashscript
- Frontend-Wireframes, HTML5,CSS3,JavaScript, jQuery,React.js
- ServerSide-Micro Services, RESTfulWebservices,gRPC, Lighttpd
- DB-MongoDB,PostgresSQL; PgAdmin,Redis
- Middleware-Apache Kafka,Fluentd
- Frameworks-Flask,Django,
- Java Spring MVC(Multithread Handling, Connection Pool),PySpark
- ML-TensorFlowLite,MLlib
- Cloud-AWS(PaaS, SaaS, and orchestration)/ AWS IoT Greengrass / AWS Sagemaker
- Embedded Linux,OpenWRT,FreeRTOS
- Firmware,BSP,Kernel,Devicedrivers,SBC
- Software Tools-GDB,Dmalloc,Valgrind,Coverity,GCov,PyLint,PyTest,Pydb
- Hardware Tools-Trace32/JTAG,PicoScope,DSO, Spectrum Analyzer
- Network Debug Tools-Wireshark,Omnipeek, Aircrackng,Airodumpng,TCPDUMP,TRex/IXIXA/Spirant traffic generators,IPREF3,HAMMER CallMaster.
- Network Protocols-WiFi(IEEE802.11ac),WPA2,WPA3, EAP-TLS/Ethernet(IEEE802.3),PoE/Layer2 and Layer3(Switching,Forwarding,QoS,Routing)/PPP,PPPoE/TCPIP Protocol Suite(IPv4/v6,UDP/TCP, HTTPs,VLAN,DNS,DHCP, ARP, NAT)/Security standard (TLS/SSL,AAA/RADIUS)/SIP/ WebRTC/CWMP Protocol TR069/BLE5.2;BLEMESH/Zigbee/ LoRaWAN/NB-IoT/4G LTE/MQTT,Mosquito,RabitMQ,Modbus.
- DevOps-Jenkins CI/CD,Docker, Kubernetes,GitHub,Bitbucket
- Embedded Android,DeviceTree,HAL;Framework Layers, Headless Android soft sensor(Foreground, Background services),Enterprise network analyzer (Android Agent) app.
- Build,Train,Test and Deploy ML model from scratch
Product Management Skills
- RFP to TechnoCommercial Proposals
- Product Launch(DEMOStalls)
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Proof of Concepts/Minimal Viable Product
- Market Intelligence, Competitors product analysis
- New Business Models
- Define product roadmap and milestones for the company
- Lead new initiatives with limited resources and support
- Product Life Cycle Management
- Product Positioning
- Pre-Patenting Claims
- Innovate, Facilitate and Convince clients through product workshops
- Key ideas generation and translate them into products
- Articulate Design Ideas/Concepts – Mockup UI/UX Prototype workflows
- Customer Segmentation/Consumer Campaigns
- Managing Distributed Teams
- Roll-out detailed Software Functional Specifications and Technical Requirement documentation
- List down detailed user-stories for iterative development of features /feature-enhancements
- Project Planning, Resource mapping, Work breakdown and allocation, Agile Jira Scrum boards, Waterfall models
- Build programs to train sales teams and channels, both internal and external
- Work simultaneously with multiple customers to understand the user personas, major use cases, and pain points.
- Partner closely with engineering teams as a customers’ advocate to define, prioritize, and implement features.
- Close deals: Successfully transform pilot trials wins to revenue and forecast revenue outlook
Work experience
Humble, passionate, collaborative, values continuous improvement, entrepreneurial type

Sr.Software Development Engineer
MAY 2015 – Present

System Architect
MAY 2013 – APR 2015

System Architect
NOV 2011 – MAY 2013

Sr.Technical Leader
JUN 2010 – NOV 2011

Technical Leader
SEP 2004 – MAY 2010

Sr.Software Engineer
JUL 2003 – SEP 2004

Software Engineer
DEC 2000 – JUL 2003
Education

University of Madras
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Certification
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