Experience

Circles.Life

• Singapore
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Product Management

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Consultant

  • Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India



Huawei Technologies India

• India
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President of Product Management

  • Jan 2020 - Oct 2022

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India E2E business ownership of Shopping Ad Platform. Collaborated with geographically distributed teams and performed market and competitive analysis; defined Product Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap; created the High-Level Architecture and ensured the successful delivery of the Shopping Ad platform using Scrum. • Development of a Cloud-based Ad Platform for Huawei Mobile Services, ensuring high throughput, low latency (less than 300ms), and high availability (99.9%). • Relevant Shopping Product… Show more E2E business ownership of Shopping Ad Platform. Collaborated with geographically distributed teams and performed market and competitive analysis; defined Product Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap; created the High-Level Architecture and ensured the successful delivery of the Shopping Ad platform using Scrum. • Development of a Cloud-based Ad Platform for Huawei Mobile Services, ensuring high throughput, low latency (less than 300ms), and high availability (99.9%). • Relevant Shopping Product Recommendations based on the Search Query Intent analysis by employing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms. • Implemented the final selection of Ads based on Relevance and Bid Price. • Improved the Clickthrough Rate (CTR) by 100% in 1 year through different Click Prediction ML models and signal optimizations. • Built the E2E Data Pipeline using Kafka & Spark, model performance analysis framework, and complex A/B Test framework with the capability to deploy ML models based on different attributes, e.g., Query, Channel, Region, and Language. • Implemented invalid traffic and Click Fraud detection and prevention.

• Director of Product Management

  • Oct 2012 - Jan 2020

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Strategized & set up the Digital BSS Product and Solutioning team at Huawei India R&D • Evangelized new Products / Platforms with internal and external customers (CTOs / CIOs / CMOs); defined Product Vision and Roadmap. • Provided consulting to clients on the Digital Transformation of their business, proposed optimum solutions, and ensured successful delivery. • Developed go-to-market consulting service offerings. • Built, coached, mentored, and managed a team of 100+ senior… Show more Strategized & set up the Digital BSS Product and Solutioning team at Huawei India R&D • Evangelized new Products / Platforms with internal and external customers (CTOs / CIOs / CMOs); defined Product Vision and Roadmap. • Provided consulting to clients on the Digital Transformation of their business, proposed optimum solutions, and ensured successful delivery. • Developed go-to-market consulting service offerings. • Built, coached, mentored, and managed a team of 100+ senior experts (average experience level of 8 yrs) responsible for Digital Transformation Consulting and Solution Engineering. • Managed 6 Solution teams simultaneously • Responsible for Thought Leadership within the domain and produced Industry Whitepapers / Articles. • Led Sales pitching through CXO level workshops and supported bid responses of RFI / RFP / RFQs. • Handled a few hundred Million USD revenue business every year. • Chief Solution Architect for Huawei’s 5G Digital Business Support System (BSS) • Product Innovation, Conceptualization, Market Analysis, and Roadmap planning of the Huawei IoT Connectivity Enablement Platform. • Key speaker of Huawei on ‘Digital Operation Transformation’ during MWC 2017 Barcelona • Built the Solution Architecture for a Central Asian customer for the BSS Consolidation Program of their 2 operating companies. • BSS as a Service offering design and delivery for a Europe-based MVNO and Middle East CSP. • Performed an IT Architecture Consulting Assessment for a large Telco in LATAM. Implemented the final solution based on the findings of the assessment. • Provided Enterprise Architecture Consultancy to Middle East Tier-1 Telco to define the Unified Target Architecture for Group OpCos based on the TOGAF & TM Forum guidelines. Designed and delivered the solution for one of the opco. • Led the MVNO solution implementation for one of the big media companies in the UK.

• Lead Architect & Head of Architecture Group

  • Jan 2008 - Oct 2012

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Spearheaded the Architecture & System Engineering team responsible for the Software Architecture, Roadmap planning, and Technology Management of Huawei Software Products at India’s R&D Centre. • Developed Partner Management Platform solution, which enabled easier & faster onboarding, deployment & settlement of Service Providers (SPs) and Content Providers (CPs). • Led the design & development of the Online Charging System (OCS) for Convergence (Pre-paid & Post-paid subscribers), requiring… Show more Spearheaded the Architecture & System Engineering team responsible for the Software Architecture, Roadmap planning, and Technology Management of Huawei Software Products at India’s R&D Centre. • Developed Partner Management Platform solution, which enabled easier & faster onboarding, deployment & settlement of Service Providers (SPs) and Content Providers (CPs). • Led the design & development of the Online Charging System (OCS) for Convergence (Pre-paid & Post-paid subscribers), requiring high performance and high availability (99.999%) • Developed Partner Management Platform solution for a Tier-1 Telco group across their OpCos in the Middle East & Africa based on Multi-Node Architecture (Central & Local Nodes) supporting Multi-Country, Multi-Currency & Multi Time-Zone. It enabled easier & faster onboarding, deployment & settlement of Service Providers (SPs) and Content Providers (CPs) across the group. • Engaged one of the biggest Indian Mobile Operators, understood their pain points through multiple workshops, and designed a suitable solution. Swapped the Online Charging System (IN) in 4 circles.

• System Architect, Next Generation IN Platform

  • Mar 2002 - Dec 2007

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Key Architect of the Next Generation IN and Middleware Platform supporting the IMS, GSM, and Fixed network. It supported the SIP, INAP, CAMEL (CAP) & MAP protocols and was built based on SOA principles.



CoSystems (I) Pvt. Ltd

• Freelance Consultant

  • Oct 2000 - Feb 2002

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Design & development of Media Gateway Framework which integrated multiple protocol stacks (viz., MGCP, RTP/RTCP, AAL2, AAL5) with an extensive set of utilities to efficiently manage a media gateway. It comprised of a Management sub-system, a Protocol sub-system, a Telephony sub-system and an OS sub-system. The Telephony subs-system provided an interface to implement the Vendor specific telephony API's. The Protocol sub-system implemented an Endpoint Manager which managed different types of… Show more Design & development of Media Gateway Framework which integrated multiple protocol stacks (viz., MGCP, RTP/RTCP, AAL2, AAL5) with an extensive set of utilities to efficiently manage a media gateway. It comprised of a Management sub-system, a Protocol sub-system, a Telephony sub-system and an OS sub-system. The Telephony subs-system provided an interface to implement the Vendor specific telephony API's. The Protocol sub-system implemented an Endpoint Manager which managed different types of Endpoints and a Resource Manager to manage various media formats. Framework included System monitor to perform health & status management and supported Fault Tolerance & redundancy and configuration through SNMP & CLI. Show less



Aricent (Formerly Hughes Software Systems)

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 1998 - Sep 2000

  Gurugram, Haryana, India Feature development and support for Class-5 Telecom Switch from Harris Communication & Product Division based on ISDN, SS7, R2 and SF2100/2600 signaling protocols. Development of Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Software Stack used to control the Media Gateway (MG) by a Soft Switch / Media Gateway Controller (MGC) in a VoIP environment.



Schlumberger

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solutions Engineer

  • Jun 1996 - Nov 1998

  Gurugram, Haryana, India Development of the Embedded Software for Industrial Electricity Metering Equipments involving Advance Rating Engine, Fraud Detection and Hand Held Device support. Designed & developed a system for Power Grid Corporation for On-line Summation and remote monitoring of up to 8 Energy Metering Units. It involved the simultaneous capturing of Active / Reactive Import / Export Energy Pulses, Real-Time processing & Reporting of Data by interfacing to a LCD module & Modem for data output.