Rohin Parkar

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States23 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded an innovative IoT access control company.
Expert in wireless technology and product development.
Leader in driving wireless mesh standardization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in IoT and wireless technology development.

Contact

rohin_parkar@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProduct Management

Other Skills

3G4GAntennasAutomationCellular CommunicationsCloud TechnologiesDebuggingEdgeEntrepreneurshipFinancial ModelingGSMLNA designLabVIEWMatlabMobile

About

With over 18 years of experience in wireless technology and product development, I co-founded Spintly in 2018 to solve problems in the access control and smart buildings space. Spintly is a middleware IoT platform that enables the future of the built world with mobile and cloud-based access solutions. As the CEO, I lead the vision, strategy, and execution of the company, overseeing all aspects of product development, marketing, sales, and customer success. I am passionate about creating innovative and scalable products that leverage the power of wireless mesh, API economy, and cloud computing. I have extensive experience in developing and leading 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi, and IoT technologies, working with diverse cross-functional teams across the globe. I am also a member of Thread Group and Bluetooth SIG, driving the adoption and standardization of wireless mesh for applications in access control and building automation. My mission is to revolutionize and simplify access control with Spintly, making buildings smarter, safer, and more efficient.

Experience

Thread group

Member

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Member of Thread group. Adopting and driving a wireless mesh standard for applications in Access control and building automation.

Spintly

Co-Founder & CEO

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Founded Spintly, an IoT platform enabling the future of the built world. Currently focused on the Physical security and Access control vertical scaling an end to end access control solution using the power of Wireless, Mobile and cloud technologies.

Financial ModelingNegotiationNew Business DevelopmentLeadershipProduct ManagementWireless+2

Mrinq technologies

Co-Founder & CEO

Dec 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs · India

Co-founded a wireless product development and technical consulting company. Building simple solutions to solve complex problems. Developed innovative IoT solutions for Lighting control, Access control, Smart buildings and Asset tracking using BLE mesh technology. The company eventually evolved into what today is called Spintly.

Bluetooth sig

Member

Nov 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Broadcom

2 roles

Senior Staff Engineer - Hardware Development (WLAN)

Promoted

Dec 2014 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Design and development of compact reference designs for Wifi applications. Designed compact low cost Wifi and Bluetooth Solutions targeted for the IOT (internet of Things) market. Resolved key technical issues and successfully transferred new stable IOT reference designs into the market. Worked closely with Marketing team on product definition. Worked on compact Wifi module designs for iMac platforms. Worked on Reference designs for ET (Envelope tracking) solutions.

Senior staff Engineer Hardware development

Aug 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs · Orange County, California Area

Design and development of Wifi reference designs to support the latest 802.11n and 802.11ac standards. Design of LTE femto-cell with dual band concurrent Wifi. Worked on various technologies like DSL,VDSL, MOCA, PLC, LTE-femtocell, PCIe. Provided support to customer projects to review their schematics, layout, Antenna Design and resolve key technical issues.

Rf dsp inc.

Principal Hardware Engineer

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 · 4 mos · Orange County, California Area

Worked in a Start-up environment for Technology development of next generation base stations for 5G cellular networks. Design and development of Hardware for implementation of Massive-MIMO system using Beam-Forming. Responsible for following.
System design and RF Budget calculations
RF Line-up analysis
Component selection
Schematic and PCB layout design
Circuit Validation and testing

Nokia

2 roles

RF Project leader

Jan 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

Lead the design and development activities for next generation (2G/3G/4G) wirless base station products. Responsibilities included.
Project management : manage schedules, assign roles and responsibilities to team members, Identify key bottlenecks and reassign resources to keep the project on track.
Technical management : Ensure that all the key technical issues are resolved in time by conducting brainstorming sessions with the team.
Production readiness : Ensure that high product yields are achieved to allow volume manufacturing.

RF Design Engineer

Aug 2007 – Mar 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Worked as a RF design engineer for 3G/4G-LTE cellular base station products. Responsible for designing, testing, documentaion and ramping up the product in volume production.

Tata consultancy services

RF Engineer

Jan 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Worked as a design engineer providing RF circuit design and testing services to some of the major telecom companies. Worked on the developemnt of GSM/EDGE base stations for Motorola.

Barc

Scientist C

Sep 2002 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Worked as a Scientific Officer at Bhabha Atomic reserach center (India) for the development of RF Linear accelerators (LINAC).
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/oct252004/1066.pdf
http://www.bessy.de/fel2006/proceedings/TALKS/TUCAU04_TALK.PDF