Santosh Kumar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in VoIP technologies and embedded systems.
Led cross-functional teams for product development.
Strong focus on customer empathy in product design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecommunications expert with a strong focus on product development and customer-centric solutions.

Contact

inboxofsantosh@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentSd-wanSaas DevelopmentVoip

Other Skills

Aha! Product ManagementCloud ComputingDecision-MakingDistributed SystemsEnglishJIRAKubernetesMicroservicesMobile ApplicationsNode.jsOrganizational InitiativesProduct Life CycleProduct StrategyREST APIRESTful WebServices

About

Product development leader with experience in multiple roles in software development, customer engineering and product management. - Strong experience in distributed data management platform including scale out NAS, data backup/recovery, indexing and insights. - Leading efforts on product strategy for a UEBA application involving scale out NAS. - A big believer in customer empathy and its importance in developing innovative, effective and simple to use products. - Ability to understand customer pain points, translating them into requirement specification and collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver value. Manageability of enterprise appliances for WAN accelerators and SD-WAN. - Led efforts for scalability of management appliance that was key for winning multi million deals. - Built and led cross functional team. - Developed microservice architecture on management appliances. - Led efforts for SDWAN manageability Saas development for cloud and on-premise offering. Expert in VoIP technologies and embedded System - Executed multiple OEM projects and helped them achieve their product goals for VoIP/telephony solutions. - SIP/RTP/DECT - Android Telephony/Audio framework.

Experience

Maxlinear

2 roles

Director of Software Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Engineering Manager

Jan 2021 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Building next generation platform for home broadband gateways.

Systems ThinkingSoftware LifecycleOrganizational InitiativesEnglishProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development

Intel corporation

Engineering Manager

Jun 2020 – Jan 2021 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Systems ThinkingSoftware LifecycleOrganizational InitiativesEnglish

Cohesity

Technical Lead

Jun 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Systems ThinkingSoftware LifecycleOrganizational InitiativesEnglish

Riverbed technology

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

Led the effort in making the Steel Connect Manager (SDWAN appliance manager), an enterprise ready product. SCM is a Saas product with a zero touch provisioning capability for SDWAN appliance. Built and led the team in implementing various features including RBAC, REST API, batch upgrades and dynamic routing.
Led the effort to make the Steel Central Controller ( Riverbed manageability appliance) scalable.

Systems ThinkingSoftware LifecycleOrganizational InitiativesEnglishSD-WANSaaS Development

Member Technical Staff

Mar 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Software LifecycleEnglish

Dsp group

Senior Technical Specialist

Jul 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Area, India

Worked closely with customers, enabling them to integrate their VoIP/telephony application with DSPG SDK(on DSP Soc) and helped them achieve a smooth mass production.
Developed a sound card driver using the ALSA framework and also developed OMX components that were key to a customer design win.
Co-ordinated with different teams at different geographies and managed internal and external releases.

Software LifecycleEnglish

Lantiq

Staff Engineer

Nov 2009 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Worked with multiple customers on VoIP and DECT(Cordless) phone MP.
Helped customers with faster integration on Lantiq platform leading to design wins.
Helped in DECT Next generation feature definition.
Participated in CATiq/DECT(Standardization) forums, helping in evolving the next generation protocols.
Participated in interoperability events where different vendors worked towards a common goal of achieving DECT call (and supplementary feature) interoperability b/w phones from different vendors.
Initiated an idea of android DECT phone and developed a POC.

English

Infineon technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2005 – Oct 2009 · 4 yrs 4 mos · bangalore

Design and development of SIP stack
Design and development of Media manager for ATA phones.
Interoperability of VoIP application with service providers.
Worked with ODMs, helping them integrate Infineon sw stack on their product.

English

Tata elxsi

Software Engineer

Oct 2003 – May 2005 · 1 yr 7 mos

Worked at motorola on developing a dual mode windows phone (GSM + VoIP).
Contributed in enhancing the SIP stack and adding many new features on the phone application.

English