Santos Das

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led transition to microservices architecture for 5G products.
Established engineering culture focused on excellence.
Mentored technical leaders and managed diverse teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecom and Cloud Computing expert with strong leadership in software engineering.

Contact

santos.das@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProject ManagementCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentTelecom Engineering

Other Skills

5G TechnologyAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementApache KafkaArchitecture SpecificationBig DataCloud Native InfrastructureCoachingData ModelingGanttHigh Potential DevelopmentIT AutomationKubernetesLTE Protocol DevelopmentMicroservices

About

Experienced Software lead having experience in startups as well as large organisations in Distributed Systems, Cloud, Telecom domain. As a founding architect, I played a major role in setting up Avni's India Development Center. - Leading engineering teams with high calibre software engineers, guiding them in architectural and design decisions - Collaborating and Co-ordinating development efforts across time zone and geo diverse peer teams - Coaching managers and technical leaders to bring out the best in them - Hire, retain, and grow top industry talent - Working with geographically distributed cross-functional stakeholders creating strong inter organisational relationships - Direct and manage software engineering resource allocation, schedules and budget

Experience

Walmart global tech india

2 roles

Director of Software Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver large scale initiatives
Set strategy and technical direction for my functional area
Working closely with teams in US and managing engineers/teams based out of US
Establishing team culture focused on engineering/product/operational excellence
Mentoring and career management; hiring and developing technical leaders

Cloud ComputingSoftware DeploymentTeam ManagementProject ManagementLeadership

Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Jun 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Affirmed networks

Senior Software Development Manager

Apr 2016 – Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

At Affirmed Networks India, I led the Cloud Native Infrastructure and Platform team specialising in Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, Jaeger, EFK, MongoDB to power Affirmed's 5G product portfolios. I played a major role in the company's transition to a Microservices based architecture. I architected and led the development of 3GPP Based Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) and took it to the deployment in Softbank.
Responsible for the Development of the following Products/Features:
Cloud Native Infrastructure:
o Cloud Native Observability Framework (Logging, Tracing, PMs)
o HTTP/HTTP2 Layer
o Framework for Logging, Tracing and Statistics
Cloud Native Common Application Services
o Durable Timer Microservice
o 3GPP based common Online & Offline Charging Micro Services for 5G NFs
3GPP Based Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF)/Network Exposure Function (NEF)
o Built this product from the conceptualization stage, currently it is deployed at few Tier one customer sites
o Defining product Roadmap for SCEF/NEF
o Replying to RFPs
o Working with Sales/Account team for the RFP response
o Product demo to the potential customers

KubernetesMicroservicesCloud Native Infrastructure5G TechnologyCloud ComputingSoftware Development

Avni (acquired by veritas)

Founding Architect

Nov 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Avni Software Defined Cloud (SDC):
Responsibility: Product definition, technical leadership, Implementation, Agile Project Management, Merge & Release Management,executing Proof-Of-Concept(POC) deployments, Third-party integration program with AVNI SDC, Hiring, Mentoring and Retaining the talents
Architected and implemented NFV compatible virtualized network services including Application Delivery Controller (ADC),Web Application Firewall, Zonal Firewall(ZFW)
Architected and implemented SDN functionality to push reactive, proactive and hybrid flows to OpenFlow switches, in particular using HP’s SDN controller.
Integrated third party VPN solution to AVNI SDC
Architected and implemented the integration of Citrix Netscaler with Avni SDC
Supported multiple POC deployments
Directly Managing an engineering team of size 8 for cloud virtualization, and Network services
Ran agile scrums and bug scrubs
Release Lead

Agile Project ManagementTechnical LeadershipNetwork ServicesLeadershipProject Management

Airvana

2 roles

Lead Engineer R&D

Oct 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

LTE eNB (Evolved Node B) protocol stack development. The responsibility includes -
♦ Defining the overall architecture of eNB and high level design
♦ Study of 3GPP specifications to derive the requirements of RRC protocol layer
♦ Study of various vendor L1-L2 interfaces including FAPI
♦ Contributed to the Architecture Specification, Design Document and Unit Test Plan.
♦ Implemented the RRC layer and few MAC layer components (MAC scheduler, RACH Manager) and L1 abstraction layer
♦ Integration of eNB protocol stack on Freescale hardware platform without any support from the vendor (Freescale).
Was responsible for the development of the following features on Airvana’s EVDO RNC and BTS.
♦ Multi carrier DOM300
♦ IRAT-Default-OMP
Received organizational level “Outstanding Performance for the year 2011” award in Airvana India for significant contribution to AIRVANA's EVDO program

LTE Protocol DevelopmentArchitecture SpecificationUnit TestingSoftware DevelopmentTelecom Engineering

R&D Module Lead

Aug 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Was responsible for the development of "Umbrella to Capacity Carrier Redirect" feature on Airvana’s EVDO RNC and BTS.

Wipro technologies (for nortel networks)

2 roles

Architect

Promoted

Apr 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India, Belleville, Ontario, Canada

Worked as feature lead for the following projects on NORTEL's Media Gateway Controller(MGC)
♦ Voice Quality Measurement on MINDSPEED DSP
♦ Support of MINDSPEED Matisse DSP to provide 128 DSP channels
♦ Caller ID generation and detection using MINDSPEED DSP
I was a part of the team responsible for moving NORTEL's CS1K Call Server (Enterprise) from VxWorks operating system to Linux.

Technical Lead

Jun 2002 – Mar 2008 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India, Belleville, Ontario, Canada

Joined WIPRO Technologies with a Campus offer as a Systems Engineer. Worked for Nortel Networks from 2002 to 2010.
Media Gateway Controller (MGC) Development.
This project involves the development of a new product MGC, which acts as a PSTN gateway for Nortel’s CS1000 Call Server.