Karthik Vishwanath

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 25 years of engineering leadership experience
Expertise in building cloud infrastructure from the ground up
Proven track record in managing complex projects

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications and SaaS expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingLeadership DevelopmentTeam ManagementEngineering ManagementDesign Leadership

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipDirector levelHands-on Technical LeadershipTelecommunications

About

Engineering leader with over 25 years in a mix of cutting edge-startup companies and new technology initiatives of larger Fortune 50 companies. Expertise in building strong engineering teams and cloud infrastructure ground up. Proven ability to manage complex projects that involve development, testing and Devops of carrier grade applications and platforms.

Experience

8 yrs 11 mos

2 roles

Director of Software Engineering

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

Leading groups under Technology and Product organization in Verizon. Building engineering teams for Device analytics, Location services, RCS Messaging. Setting up labs for Wi-Fi testing and location services and building certification capabilities. Managing teams across locations and oversee partner ODCs. Strong ability to groom and mentor next set of technology and people leaders within the organization. Expertise in building scalable products with ownership across all phases of engineering, from requirements to deployment.

Director levelHands-on Technical LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipLeadership DevelopmentCloud ComputingTelecommunications+1

Verizon

– Present

Bluejeans by verizon

Associate Director Engineering

Oct 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Leading the Middleware and Core Platform services teams at Bluejeans. Successfully lead the team efforts towards a re-architecture of conference services to support large meetings with over 1000 participants. Led a team of cloud architects to provide deployment blueprints for Devops teams and drive cost optimization efforts,

Engineering ManagementDirector levelDesign Leadership

Sonus

Engineering Manager

Jul 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sonus centralized policy and routing solution (PSX) provides a better way to manage the security, complexity and cost of routing calls across any operator's network. Leading the test efforts for Sonus Policy Server. Worked critical releases like IPV6 support, Linux migration etc.
Awarded Best Manager (companywide) for year 2016.

Envio networks

Engineering Manager

Jan 2006 – Sep 2010 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

envIO networks enables social discovery of mobile content. Was part of the initial team responsible for overall testing function. Successfully managed deployment of envIO content discovery platform to Airtel. The J2ME application was used by millions of subscribers. Managed testing of envIO's chorus app for IOS and android platform. At launch chorus was among the top downloaded apps.

Winphoria networks (motorola)

Technical Lead

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Winphoria networks developed a class leading softswitch for CDMA and GSM networks. It was acquired by Motorola in 2003.
At Motorola, I supported the largest nationwide softswitch deployment for Motorola Brazil. Worked across VIVO locations for facilitating easy deployment and software upgrades. Provided technical training for team in Brazil to understand the product and debug problems.