Ajit Nair
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Shivangi Jaiswal
A Great and tough leader, always motivates and pushes employees to work in a better and smarter way. He takes care of the company's and employee's growth. It was a great experience to work with him.
Bhushan Vaidya
Ajit is one of those rare managers who also naturally serves as an inspiring mentor for the whole team. With a background of systems domain for many years, he exhibits a unique and rare combination of good hands on designing and coding skills as well as peripheral expertise like team management and product management. Ajit’s knowledge base is very vast and Ajit has ability to cater to any domain in the software field. Ajit exhibits strong interpersonal skills and a unique capacity for empathy. These qualities most notably translate in his ability to motivate a team to care about its project and be invested in the project’s success. Ajit is the go-to person for problem solving as well as personal advice. Though he’s never one to draw attention to himself, Ajit’s positive attitude and the respect others feel toward him are palpable. Ajit is and will be my best friend always and I would love to work with him anytime.
Shivangi Jaiswal
A Great and tough leader, always motivates and pushes employees to work in a better and smarter way. He takes care of the company's and employee's growth. It was a great experience to work with him.
Bhushan Vaidya
Ajit is one of those rare managers who also naturally serves as an inspiring mentor for the whole team. With a background of systems domain for many years, he exhibits a unique and rare combination of good hands on designing and coding skills as well as peripheral expertise like team management and product management. Ajit’s knowledge base is very vast and Ajit has ability to cater to any domain in the software field. Ajit exhibits strong interpersonal skills and a unique capacity for empathy. These qualities most notably translate in his ability to motivate a team to care about its project and be invested in the project’s success. Ajit is the go-to person for problem solving as well as personal advice. Though he’s never one to draw attention to himself, Ajit’s positive attitude and the respect others feel toward him are palpable. Ajit is and will be my best friend always and I would love to work with him anytime.
Shivangi Jaiswal
A Great and tough leader, always motivates and pushes employees to work in a better and smarter way. He takes care of the company's and employee's growth. It was a great experience to work with him.
Bhushan Vaidya
Ajit is one of those rare managers who also naturally serves as an inspiring mentor for the whole team. With a background of systems domain for many years, he exhibits a unique and rare combination of good hands on designing and coding skills as well as peripheral expertise like team management and product management. Ajit’s knowledge base is very vast and Ajit has ability to cater to any domain in the software field. Ajit exhibits strong interpersonal skills and a unique capacity for empathy. These qualities most notably translate in his ability to motivate a team to care about its project and be invested in the project’s success. Ajit is the go-to person for problem solving as well as personal advice. Though he’s never one to draw attention to himself, Ajit’s positive attitude and the respect others feel toward him are palpable. Ajit is and will be my best friend always and I would love to work with him anytime.
Shivangi Jaiswal
A Great and tough leader, always motivates and pushes employees to work in a better and smarter way. He takes care of the company's and employee's growth. It was a great experience to work with him.
Bhushan Vaidya
Ajit is one of those rare managers who also naturally serves as an inspiring mentor for the whole team. With a background of systems domain for many years, he exhibits a unique and rare combination of good hands on designing and coding skills as well as peripheral expertise like team management and product management. Ajit’s knowledge base is very vast and Ajit has ability to cater to any domain in the software field. Ajit exhibits strong interpersonal skills and a unique capacity for empathy. These qualities most notably translate in his ability to motivate a team to care about its project and be invested in the project’s success. Ajit is the go-to person for problem solving as well as personal advice. Though he’s never one to draw attention to himself, Ajit’s positive attitude and the respect others feel toward him are palpable. Ajit is and will be my best friend always and I would love to work with him anytime.
Experience
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Vendekin Technologies
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India
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Product Officer
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Oct 2022 - Present
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VP Product
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Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Vendekin with its Enterprise grade vCommerce SaaS IoT platform is creating an "Uber" model for vending machines along with showcasing an alternative sales channel for retail industry to tap into.Contributions include- Strategy vision for the product- Product roadmapping and scoping- Drive Engineering to align with product vision. Leverage server less technologies on GCP with firebase, cloud functions, BiqQuery ( Analytics), CloudRun, Cloud Logging. - Partnership Management and sales through partnerships
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Tech Mahindra
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Pune Area, India
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Product Management | Business Development | Alliances
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Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
Intersection of Productized solution, Sales, Marketing and Alliances function for Operational Support Systems. As Operators take steps towards adoption of network virtualization its effect on Operation support system cannot be ignored. Product Management for productized solutions with partnerships woven in OSS space. Also involved in creating roadmaps and marketing activities for open source initiatives in ONAP. Leading Sales and Business Development for Redhat products. Intersection of Productized solution, Sales, Marketing and Alliances function for Operational Support Systems. As Operators take steps towards adoption of network virtualization its effect on Operation support system cannot be ignored. Product Management for productized solutions with partnerships woven in OSS space. Also involved in creating roadmaps and marketing activities for open source initiatives in ONAP. Leading Sales and Business Development for Redhat products.
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Transvisual
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Pune Area, India
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Product Manager
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Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
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GSLab Pvt Ltd
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Pune
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Associate Technical Manager
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Jun 2014 - Nov 2014
- Worked on PHP internals for NOSQL database connectors - Ramped up teams - Managed application firewall security team. - Worked on PHP internals for NOSQL database connectors - Ramped up teams - Managed application firewall security team.
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Mocana, now part of DigiCert
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Member of Technical Staff
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Jan 2011 - Jun 2014
- Created user stories with respect to API's for Mocana's network security stack.- Road Mapping and prioritization of features within network security stack.- POC development for customer problems.- Involved in solving scaling and performance issues.- Agile Methodology.- Mobility and IOT security
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Member of Technical Staff
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Dec 2006 - Jan 2011
- Involved in architecting and development network security stacks like SSL, IKE, IPSEC, EAP etc- Involved in Pre-sales and developing POC's for customers.- Good knowledge in IP Networks.- Discuss with the sales team in creating a road map for the security products.
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Tech Mahindra
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Architect
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Dec 2003 - Nov 2006
Involved in - Outsourced Product development for an leading Mediation/Charging company whose products are deployed in Tier 1 Telecom Operators. - Road Mapping for network interfaces to be developed within the Mediation product. - Architect ed protocol stacks like GTP, AAA stack ( Diameter and Radius) - Building teams to execute and Manage deliveries. - Involved in scaling and performance improvements of various developed connectors. - Requirement analysis; Forward planning for connector development.
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Infosys
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engg
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Jun 2003 - Dec 2003
Provided leadership and mentoring to the team in creating an proprietary mediation platform for an leading Telecom operator. Provided leadership and mentoring to the team in creating an proprietary mediation platform for an leading Telecom operator.
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Tech Mahindra
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engg
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Mar 1999 - May 2003
- Involved in creating an SS7 -IP gateway to enable customer’s voice mail platform integrate seamlessly into IN with minimal changes to their infrastructure; there by enabling customers to increase their shelf life of their platform. - Worked on Nodal Interworking Functionality to map SS7 messages into TUA. POC created for working USSD and MMSC gateways. - Involved in creating an SS7 -IP gateway to enable customer’s voice mail platform integrate seamlessly into IN with minimal changes to their infrastructure; there by enabling customers to increase their shelf life of their platform. - Worked on Nodal Interworking Functionality to map SS7 messages into TUA. POC created for working USSD and MMSC gateways.
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Education
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2015 - 2016
Institute of Product Leadership
Executive MBA, Product Management -
1994 - 1998
Shivaji University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics -
1992 - 1994
Atomic Energy Junior College
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