Experience

UnoCareer

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Co-Founded and built a SaaS platform that helps connect the dots between talent and teams. UnoCareer's Smart EcoSystem automates Virtual Campus Recruitment and helps companies spot/hire best fit talent while saving cost & time * Formulated company's vision, goals, and objectives and built a lean Organization from scratch * Defined product strategy, requirements, roadmap, and technical architecture and steered the company’s technical direction * Led the system architecture design… Show more Co-Founded and built a SaaS platform that helps connect the dots between talent and teams. UnoCareer's Smart EcoSystem automates Virtual Campus Recruitment and helps companies spot/hire best fit talent while saving cost & time * Formulated company's vision, goals, and objectives and built a lean Organization from scratch * Defined product strategy, requirements, roadmap, and technical architecture and steered the company’s technical direction * Led the system architecture design, and instrumental in designing a highly scalable microservices based architecture * Set up development processes, embraced Scrum methodology and improved consistency and efficiency of software releases * Coached and motivated teams to foster collaboration and keep them focused in delivering timely releases to customers with quality * Leveraged technologies like Vue.js, Node.js, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Redis, RabbitMQ etc. in building the platform * Designed and deployed platform on AWS Cloud by leveraging Route53, ELB, EC2, VPC, S3, SNS, SES etc. * Designed & patented an algorithm to suggest best-fit candidates to Employers Show less Co-Founded and built a SaaS platform that helps connect the dots between talent and teams. UnoCareer's Smart EcoSystem automates Virtual Campus Recruitment and helps companies spot/hire best fit talent while saving cost & time * Formulated company's vision, goals, and objectives and built a lean Organization from scratch * Defined product strategy, requirements, roadmap, and technical architecture and steered the company’s technical direction * Led the system architecture design… Show more Co-Founded and built a SaaS platform that helps connect the dots between talent and teams. UnoCareer's Smart EcoSystem automates Virtual Campus Recruitment and helps companies spot/hire best fit talent while saving cost & time * Formulated company's vision, goals, and objectives and built a lean Organization from scratch * Defined product strategy, requirements, roadmap, and technical architecture and steered the company’s technical direction * Led the system architecture design, and instrumental in designing a highly scalable microservices based architecture * Set up development processes, embraced Scrum methodology and improved consistency and efficiency of software releases * Coached and motivated teams to foster collaboration and keep them focused in delivering timely releases to customers with quality * Leveraged technologies like Vue.js, Node.js, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Redis, RabbitMQ etc. in building the platform * Designed and deployed platform on AWS Cloud by leveraging Route53, ELB, EC2, VPC, S3, SNS, SES etc. * Designed & patented an algorithm to suggest best-fit candidates to Employers Show less



Polycom

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Mar 2011 - Dec 2015

  I helped grow the Voice Organization into a strong management and product delivery team. Managed Voice Engineering organization, championed new product and technology initiatives, and focused on emerging technology areas * Investigated emerging technology like IoT, BYOD, Cloud Computing and driven solutions leveraging them in UC end points * Transitioned Polycom’s Voice product line R&D responsibilities from North America to India (IIC) and handled business growth * Delivered… Show more I helped grow the Voice Organization into a strong management and product delivery team. Managed Voice Engineering organization, championed new product and technology initiatives, and focused on emerging technology areas * Investigated emerging technology like IoT, BYOD, Cloud Computing and driven solutions leveraging them in UC end points * Transitioned Polycom’s Voice product line R&D responsibilities from North America to India (IIC) and handled business growth * Delivered Polycom’s new Voice hardware & software products which resulted in strong YoY revenue growth for Voice product portfolio * Worked closely with Executive Management, Product Management, Sales and Customers in defining product growth and release strategy * Led R&D efforts in defining requirements for nextgen UC system like smart pairing, managing endpoints with BYOD, enhancing UI/UX, defining Out of the Box experience, defining common RESTful APIs etc. * Delivered new Voice products (IP Desktop phones, Expansion modules, Video Cameras, Lync features), which resulted in significant sales growth opportunities for Voice business * Do more with less (delivered product/release commitments defined in the roadmap, despite overall head count reduction by 20%, during/post transition, while improving overall team productivity) * Recipient of Top Performance award from e-staff in Polycom * Successfully instituted Internship & College hire programs in Polycom to galvanize the Organization Show less I helped grow the Voice Organization into a strong management and product delivery team. Managed Voice Engineering organization, championed new product and technology initiatives, and focused on emerging technology areas * Investigated emerging technology like IoT, BYOD, Cloud Computing and driven solutions leveraging them in UC end points * Transitioned Polycom’s Voice product line R&D responsibilities from North America to India (IIC) and handled business growth * Delivered… Show more I helped grow the Voice Organization into a strong management and product delivery team. Managed Voice Engineering organization, championed new product and technology initiatives, and focused on emerging technology areas * Investigated emerging technology like IoT, BYOD, Cloud Computing and driven solutions leveraging them in UC end points * Transitioned Polycom’s Voice product line R&D responsibilities from North America to India (IIC) and handled business growth * Delivered Polycom’s new Voice hardware & software products which resulted in strong YoY revenue growth for Voice product portfolio * Worked closely with Executive Management, Product Management, Sales and Customers in defining product growth and release strategy * Led R&D efforts in defining requirements for nextgen UC system like smart pairing, managing endpoints with BYOD, enhancing UI/UX, defining Out of the Box experience, defining common RESTful APIs etc. * Delivered new Voice products (IP Desktop phones, Expansion modules, Video Cameras, Lync features), which resulted in significant sales growth opportunities for Voice business * Do more with less (delivered product/release commitments defined in the roadmap, despite overall head count reduction by 20%, during/post transition, while improving overall team productivity) * Recipient of Top Performance award from e-staff in Polycom * Successfully instituted Internship & College hire programs in Polycom to galvanize the Organization Show less



Quantum

• Japan
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Site Manager/Senior Engineer Manager

  • Sep 2008 - Mar 2011

  Managed Quantum India site operations as well as engineering teams. Managed cross-site software releases and led the development efforts to improve serviceability of the Quantum’s Galaxy system * Delivered replication management, sysCLI, IPv6 support, serviceability, look and feel of web-based GUI management application for managing storage devices * Managed cross-site software release; worked closely with PM, QA and development teams * Formalized and improved cross-site customer… Show more Managed Quantum India site operations as well as engineering teams. Managed cross-site software releases and led the development efforts to improve serviceability of the Quantum’s Galaxy system * Delivered replication management, sysCLI, IPv6 support, serviceability, look and feel of web-based GUI management application for managing storage devices * Managed cross-site software release; worked closely with PM, QA and development teams * Formalized and improved cross-site customer escalation handling processes * Increased operational efficiency of the teams by defining & tracking productivity metrics, while reducing communication issues Show less Managed Quantum India site operations as well as engineering teams. Managed cross-site software releases and led the development efforts to improve serviceability of the Quantum’s Galaxy system * Delivered replication management, sysCLI, IPv6 support, serviceability, look and feel of web-based GUI management application for managing storage devices * Managed cross-site software release; worked closely with PM, QA and development teams * Formalized and improved cross-site customer… Show more Managed Quantum India site operations as well as engineering teams. Managed cross-site software releases and led the development efforts to improve serviceability of the Quantum’s Galaxy system * Delivered replication management, sysCLI, IPv6 support, serviceability, look and feel of web-based GUI management application for managing storage devices * Managed cross-site software release; worked closely with PM, QA and development teams * Formalized and improved cross-site customer escalation handling processes * Increased operational efficiency of the teams by defining & tracking productivity metrics, while reducing communication issues Show less



Network Appliance

• Manager Software Development

  • Nov 2006 - Sep 2008

  Setup offshore operations to run NFS protocol for ONTAP 7G. Built the team from ground up and managed technology transfer. Prepared and initiated rapid technology transfer from US team, established component ownership and accelerated the technology learning * Setup offshore operations to build/grow NetApp’s NFS technology, built the organization ground up and managed the technology transfer * Delivered a cross-functional and cross-site project, and received best run project within… Show more Setup offshore operations to run NFS protocol for ONTAP 7G. Built the team from ground up and managed technology transfer. Prepared and initiated rapid technology transfer from US team, established component ownership and accelerated the technology learning * Setup offshore operations to build/grow NetApp’s NFS technology, built the organization ground up and managed the technology transfer * Delivered a cross-functional and cross-site project, and received best run project within NetApp for that year * Delivered NFS and ancillary protocols over IPv6 networks leveraging large cross-functional and cross-site teams. Taken leadership of overall product delivery over IPv6 networks * Driven the teams to not only take over NFS protocol sustenance, but also started working on next generation features within 6 months of inception Show less Setup offshore operations to run NFS protocol for ONTAP 7G. Built the team from ground up and managed technology transfer. Prepared and initiated rapid technology transfer from US team, established component ownership and accelerated the technology learning * Setup offshore operations to build/grow NetApp’s NFS technology, built the organization ground up and managed the technology transfer * Delivered a cross-functional and cross-site project, and received best run project within… Show more Setup offshore operations to run NFS protocol for ONTAP 7G. Built the team from ground up and managed technology transfer. Prepared and initiated rapid technology transfer from US team, established component ownership and accelerated the technology learning * Setup offshore operations to build/grow NetApp’s NFS technology, built the organization ground up and managed the technology transfer * Delivered a cross-functional and cross-site project, and received best run project within NetApp for that year * Delivered NFS and ancillary protocols over IPv6 networks leveraging large cross-functional and cross-site teams. Taken leadership of overall product delivery over IPv6 networks * Driven the teams to not only take over NFS protocol sustenance, but also started working on next generation features within 6 months of inception Show less



Cisco Systems

• Manager Software Development

  • Apr 1998 - Oct 2006

  Managed cross-functional development team to deliver Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on IOS XR operating system. Managed entire product life cycle for several projects * Delivered Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on Cisco’s flagship IOS XR operating system * Significantly improved Multilink code quality by surgically re-architecting problematic areas within the system * Managed the design… Show more Managed cross-functional development team to deliver Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on IOS XR operating system. Managed entire product life cycle for several projects * Delivered Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on Cisco’s flagship IOS XR operating system * Significantly improved Multilink code quality by surgically re-architecting problematic areas within the system * Managed the design, development, and testing efforts in AToM features like PseudoWire Tunnel Stitching, PseudoWire Redundancy, AToM FRR and AToM support on newer line cards on c12000 platform * Managed development efforts of Advanced MPLS forwarding features like CSC, InterAS, TTL & Explicit NULL handling, Source VRF selection, EiBGP multi-path on c12000 platform * Participated in Line Card bring up re-architecture, and implemented features like LC discovery FSM, LC failure handling, LC presence detect, board manager changes etc., to improve the resiliency and reliability in line card bring up and OIR handling * Worked on the PCMCIA driver and redundant route processor solution for next generation route processor for c12000 platform * Worked with third party vendors to promote RTTMON-MIB and helped integrating it with their Network Management applications * Worked Customers and Product Management in gathering SLA metrics, and productized an IP SLA solution for Service Providers * Patented network jitter algorithms which helped protect the intellectual property of Cisco * Lead the team in the redesign of SA Agent to increase scalability and reduce memory utilization on the router Show less Managed cross-functional development team to deliver Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on IOS XR operating system. Managed entire product life cycle for several projects * Delivered Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on Cisco’s flagship IOS XR operating system * Significantly improved Multilink code quality by surgically re-architecting problematic areas within the system * Managed the design… Show more Managed cross-functional development team to deliver Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on IOS XR operating system. Managed entire product life cycle for several projects * Delivered Multilink and Frame Relay protocols as well as Shared Port Adapters (SPA) on Cisco’s flagship IOS XR operating system * Significantly improved Multilink code quality by surgically re-architecting problematic areas within the system * Managed the design, development, and testing efforts in AToM features like PseudoWire Tunnel Stitching, PseudoWire Redundancy, AToM FRR and AToM support on newer line cards on c12000 platform * Managed development efforts of Advanced MPLS forwarding features like CSC, InterAS, TTL & Explicit NULL handling, Source VRF selection, EiBGP multi-path on c12000 platform * Participated in Line Card bring up re-architecture, and implemented features like LC discovery FSM, LC failure handling, LC presence detect, board manager changes etc., to improve the resiliency and reliability in line card bring up and OIR handling * Worked on the PCMCIA driver and redundant route processor solution for next generation route processor for c12000 platform * Worked with third party vendors to promote RTTMON-MIB and helped integrating it with their Network Management applications * Worked Customers and Product Management in gathering SLA metrics, and productized an IP SLA solution for Service Providers * Patented network jitter algorithms which helped protect the intellectual property of Cisco * Lead the team in the redesign of SA Agent to increase scalability and reduce memory utilization on the router Show less



Network Associates

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 1995 - Apr 1998

  Worked in the design, development and testing of Network Management application software including RMON agent. Acquired excellent knowledge in Network Analyzers (Sniffer), Network Monitoring tools and Network Management concepts for LAN's and WAN's Worked in the design, development and testing of Network Management application software including RMON agent. Acquired excellent knowledge in Network Analyzers (Sniffer), Network Monitoring tools and Network Management concepts for LAN's and WAN's



IBM

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consulting Engineer

  • Feb 1993 - Jan 1995

  Developed code to validate Socket, TLI/XTI option management and Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) driver for AIX OS releases Developed code to validate Socket, TLI/XTI option management and Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) driver for AIX OS releases