Shashi Kumar

CEO

Tiptur, Karnataka, India27 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered entrepreneurship models in Indian agriculture.
  • Expertise in telecommunications and service delivery platforms.
  • Strong focus on sustainable agricultural practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in sustainable agriculture and telecommunications solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Service Delivery PlatformsTelecommunicationsService DeliveryProtocol DesignSoftware DevelopmentTesting

Other Skills

API DesignAgroforestryAgronomyAutomotive SoftwareC/C++ ProgrammingDairyDairy FarmingDairy ProductsDairy ScienceFarmers MarketsH.248/MegacoIP PBX DesignLocation-based ServicesManagementOrganizational Culture

About

Working to address the challenge of economic viability of farmers with small and medium landholding and exploring technology induction and automation of small farms as a means to increase productivity. - Design and implement decentralized models for wealth creation in the Indian agriculture sector (without disturbing the land holding patterns) - Foster entrepreneurship models in Indian agriculture - Enabling income generation models in agriculture/farming so that farming is seen as a vocation of choice by village youth - Enable creation of jobs in rural areas by creating mechanisms for value addition to agriculture produce at the source of production - Create sustainable economic instruments to stop forceful migration of village youth from villages to cities Prior to Akshayakalpa, worked in Telecommunications Industry for close to 17 years. Expertise spanning across Traditional Switching Software Maintenance and Design, PBX design, Telecommunication Protocol Stack Design and Development & Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Conceptualization/Design and SDP service roll-out. Worked with major telecommunication infrastructure vendors and service providers across the globe. In depth understanding of Technology domains including, SS7, Switching, VoIP (especially SIP), Transcoding and Service Delivery Platforms. Good hold of coding in C/C++ & Java, and most of the scripting languages. Loved debugging protocol stacks and driver implementations especially Adax SS7 boards. Contributed and co-authored technical papers in ICIN and IMSAA forums and industry reports published by Moriana Group. Actively participated in IETF standardization of DPNSS and Megaco RFCs

Experience

Akshayakalpa organic

2 roles

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Promoted

Sep 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Mar 2010 – Sep 2016 · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Working closely with small and marginal farmers to operationalize Entrepreneurship models in Indian agriculture with Organic Dairy production as main focus area.

Wipro technologies

3 roles

Lead Architect, Service Delivery Platforms

Jan 2008 – Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Conceived, Designed and implemented (end to end) content (image, audio, video) transcoding solution for a incumbent large service provider and an greenfield operator in India.
  • Worked on designing Northbound APIs (REST and SOAP) implementation for a top global communication service provider in US. Focus of this design activity was to map the existing network resources (IPTV, DVR etc.) and customer data (subscription, preferences etc.) across wireless, wire-line and IPTV domain to a use-case driven application accessible data.
  • Worked on Proof of Concept, design and implementation of location based services for a top Indian incumbent telecommunication service provider with a revenue share business arrangement.
TranscodingRESTSOAPAPI DesignLocation-based ServicesService Delivery Platforms+1

Architect, Next Generation Telecom Software Solutions

Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 · 5 yrs

  • Consultancy in the areas spanning:
  • IP PBX/Centrex design (for startups, SPs and EVs)
  • Hosted telecommunication solutions
  • SIP based solution conceptualization, design and implementation.
  • Customer delivery (Maintenance of legacy HLR and Migration to distributed HLR)
  • Pre-sales support activities - Proof concept to demonstrate technology adoption and utility to potential customers.
IP PBX DesignSIPTelecommunication SolutionsTelecommunicationsService Delivery

Architect, Telecommunication Protocol stacks

Jan 2001 – Mar 2003 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • 1) Design and development of protocol stacks
  • H.248/Megaco
  • IUA (ISDN UA)
  • GUA (GR303 UA)
  • DUA (DPNSS UA)
  • SIP
  • 2) Active contribution to IETF standardization of the following
  • H.248/Megaco
  • DUA &
  • GUA
  • 3) Conceived solutions based on Signaling & Device Control protocols. Lead teams to design, develop, and implement call control software for major NG soft-switch vendors.
Protocol StacksH.248/MegacoSIPTelecommunicationsProtocol Design

Cg-smith software limited

Member of Technical Staff

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs · Bangalore, India

  • Testing of ECM software for a major automotive company in the world. later on worked on feature addition, EGR handling and enhancements to Class II based vehicle control system with expertise and insights into the following
  • test cycles and processes
  • Clear understanding and implementation view of simulators and emulators
  • Cross compilation and C and C++ programming languages
C/C++ ProgrammingTestingAutomotive SoftwareSoftware Development

Education

Bangalore University & IIT Chicago

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) & Masters in Telecommunication Engineering — Software and Telecom Engineering

Jan 1991 – Jan 1995

Kalpataru Science College

Pre University

Jan 1990 – Jan 1992

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