Kushal Malik

CEO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India22 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14 years of experience in software and telecommunications.
Architected award-winning telecom applications.
Expertise in VoIP and SS7 network components.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications expert with extensive experience in VoIP and SS7 network architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ss7TelecommunicationsVoip

Other Skills

3GPPClearCaseCloudphone switchDiameterEthernetGPRSGSMICSCFIMS VoIP soft switchINAPISUPLTEMAPMxSignallingGatewayOAM

About

More than 14 years of experience in Software industry. Working experience in innovative product based startups such as Movirtu, Veraz and service based companies like Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd, Agnity Inc. Having experience in architecture, design and development of various telecom applications such as OVM(Openwave Voice Messaging), Smart Call, SMSC development, Soft switch development. Having done architecture and design of the SS7 network platform (Cloudphone switch at Movirtu) which won several awards “GSMA top innovator award”, “Poptech social welfare award”, “MEX 2010 mobile user experience innovator of the year award”, “Aegis graham bell award-2011”. Designed and Developed heart of the VoIP IMS switch component(S-CSCF and I-CSCF). At Movirtu, designed and developed MapGateway(interface of MxShare to netwrok for MAP messages) and IsupGateway(interface of MxShare to netwrok for isup messages). At Blackberry managing iOS app development and vGLR/MAPGateway developments. Specialties: Telecom Skills : SIP(IMS), SS7, VXML, TCAP, MAP, ISUP, TCP/IP, SCTP SS7 Stacks : Telesoft Sigtran stack, Newnet d7 SIGTRAN stack, Ulticom stack(name Signalware SS7/SIGTRAN) Programming Skills : C/C++/Objective-C Operating System : Solaris, Ubuntu, Slackware, CentOS Database : SQL, Oracle, Postgres Frameworks: Boost, Thrift

Experience

Blackberry

2 roles

Senior Manager

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

System Software Manager

Sep 2014 – Oct 2023 · 9 yrs 1 mo

Movirtu

Associate Project Manager

Apr 2011 – Oct 2023 · 12 yrs 6 mos · Movirtu

MxSignallingGateway platform is cloud phone network switch which integrates with SS7 network components such as MSC/SSP, HLR. Mainly I worked on ISUP and MAP part of the MxSignallingGateway. In MAP I have implemented PUSSR, USSD, ATI, SRI, SRISM, UpdateLocation, ISD, ForwardSM, PSI, PRN, CancelLocation, DeleteSubscriberData etc. So all these messages was handled in signaling gateway as well as MSC-HLR simulator to simulate these.
Responsibility:
Change Request analysis from Customer Project Manager.
R&D team facing product management
Key role in product roadmap decisions
Scrum based task management and delegation
Solution Architecture
Work done:
Architecture and Design of MAP functionalities
Architecture and Design and Development of H2 interface for Lawful interception

ISUPMAPSS7MxSignallingGatewayCloudphone switchTelecommunications

Agnity,inc

Tech Lead

Oct 2008 – May 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Noida Area, India

I worked on OVM(Openwave Voice Messaging) and SmarCall project. SmartCall is a messaging solution to provide user a various services like call back, Notification and gives user to send a customize SMS(pre stored) when user is not in the position to attend the incoming call.
SmartCall work
o Development of tool to generate the report from live system
o Bug fixes in SIP connector, ISUP connector
o Feature enhancement
OVM work
o Voice mail on the fly
o Commercial Mail box
Responsibility:
Bug fixing and all type of enhancement needed by Telefonica
Designed and developed of aforementioned features of OVM

SIPISUPOpenwave Voice MessagingSmartCallTelecommunicationsVoIP

Veraz networks

SMTS

Jun 2006 – Sep 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India

Design and development of IMS VoIP soft switch. Worked on SCSCF (Serving-CSCF) and ICSCF (Interrogating-CSCF) module for the following activities
Design and development
Unit Testing
System Integration with other module
Bug fixes
Performance testing
I was involved in the development of following features
o Registration (REGISTER handling)
o Call Processing (INVITE handling)
o SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY
I was feature lead of the following features
o Forking
o MSN (Multiple Subscriber Numbers)
o OLM (Overload Management)
o Voice Mail
o Operator Initiated Deregistration and Re-Authentication
o Site Redundancy
o Provisioning, Debugging and commands
o Alarm Generation
o Reports generation (number of REG success/failure, Number of forking attempts etc)
Responsibility:
Designed and development (Coding and Testing)

IMS VoIP soft switchSCSCFICSCFVoIPTelecommunications

Persistent systems

SMTS

Jan 2005 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune Area, India

In PSL, I worked on project of Veraz. I worked on various modules like SEE Loader (Service Execution Entity), Performance enhancement of SEE and development of features like SCR (Selective Call Rejection), Voice Mail, TWC (Three Way Calling).
Responsibility:
Coding and Testing

SEE LoaderSelective Call RejectionVoice MailTelecommunications

Reliance communications

Software Engg.

May 2003 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Worked on various project at Reliance like SANDESH(SMS Center) and prepaid system. SANDESH was developed for reliance as in house product and It was very well and could take more than 200 messages per second load. I worked on OAM (Operation Administration Management).
Responsibility:
Coding and Testing
Work done:
Development of user on ISUP of signalware(ulticom stack)
Design and development of OAM module(Operation Administration Management)

SANDESHOAMTelecommunications