Amit Aggarwal

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years in Networking Product Engineering.
Led teams of 200+ across multiple geographies.
Awarded 2 patents by USPTO.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications and Networking expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product EngineeringAutomation

Other Skills

Program ManagementRouting ProtocolsWireless NetworkingPowerBIIPv6TCP/IPQoSSNMPVPNMPLS VPNEthernetSwitchesFrame RelayCisco TechnologiesIntegration

About

Over the past 25+ years in Networking Product Engineering, I have accumulated extensive experience across various engineering roles, gaining in-depth exposure to the full product development lifecycle. My expertise includes over 10 years in Software Development, 15+ years in Testing & Automation, System Engineering, L3 Field Escalations Support, Product Documentation & Training  15+ years’ people management experience, budget planning, hiring and mentoring freshers, experienced professionals and leaders  Lead teams across several geographies: Bangalore, San Jose, Spokane and Gurgaon. First-hand exposure to various working cultures makes it easier to connect with leaders in today’s multi-site operating environment  Built high performance teams from ground up with high velocity. Conceptualized multiple people-centric initiatives, worked with CXOs and HR team to get them implemented: BestOfTheMonth Award, Freshers Academy, Product Videos Studio, PowerBI Dashboards  Lead teams of software developers, manual & automation test engineers, system engineers, escalation support engineers, technical writers and product trainers (Current team: ~200)  Technology domains: Routing, Switching, Network Security and Wireless RAN  Penchant to experiment with things: Awarded 2 patents by USPTO

Experience

Inspirationbox

Founder

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Design and publish tabletop games that stimulate the mind, spark curiosity, foster creativity and revive the joy of purposeful play.
GALO: A trick taking family card game inspired by the powers of galaxy objects.
Classic and Infinity editions are available on Amazon and Flipkart.

Tejas networks

2 roles

Vice President, R&D - Product Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Managed Product Engineering (PE) team; responsible for Product Validation (PV), Automation, Product Documentation & Training (PD, PT), L3 Field Escalations Support (TAC) and Product Certification for entire Wireline and Wireless product portfolio. Team size: 200+
Built Routing testing, training and escalation teams from scratch. Team size grew to 40
Built RAN Wireless PV, PD, PT and TAC teams from scratch. Team size grew to 85 in 2 years
Wireless and Routing testing labs were built from ground-up. Front-ended discussions with wireless and wireline test equipment vendors both on technical and commercial fronts
Automation coverage was quite low. Defined the strategy to upskill current team members and enhance homegrown automation framework to integrate Python
Expanded the charter of Product Documentation & Training to develop e-learning modules, worked with marketing to enhance product brochures
Conceptualized 80:20 initiative to develop All Rounders across PV, PD, PT and TAC teams
Successfully, presented a proposal to CTO on how PowerBI dashboards can be used for real-time monitoring of field networks. Built 4 people team to implement the idea; team received the highest company award; awarded for creating milestones which act as a benchmark for the industry
Introduced the concept of solution testing: Defined best practices and deployment procedures for Tier-I customers

Program ManagementRouting ProtocolsWireless NetworkingAutomationProduct Engineering

Associate Vice President, R&D - Product Engineering

Sep 2019 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Managing Product Validation, Customer Documentation, Training, Product Type Approval Certification, System and Quality engineering teams spanning across entire L1/L2/L3/Wireless product portfolio
Leading several quality and productivity initiatives: End-to-end system automation, Tejas academy, E-learning content, creating All Rounders...

Ciena

2 roles

Director QA

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

Manage Feature Testing, Automation, Solution Testing, Regression and Tier-III Customer Support teams for Ethernet/MPLS/IP based Access and Aggregation product segments.

Senior Manager

Sep 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

Part of System Test - Product Verification team for Metro Carrier Ethernet product segment.

Mcafee

Senior QA Manager

Aug 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Part of the Network Security Platform Team working on award winning and market leading IntruShield Network IPS Platform. Lead manual testing and Sustenance teams for 2 product lines: NIPS, and NTBA.
Delivered multiple feature releases completely from Bangalore. Major features like Device Profiling, ACL enhancements, Endpoint Intelligence, GAM
Delivered 2 new products from Bangalore: LoadBalancer and Virtual NTBA appliance
Grew the role of IPS sustenance team to start fixing customer found defects and implement customer enhancements
Drive automation, coverity and code coverage initiatives in QA team

Aruba networks

Engineering QA Manager

Jun 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Deliver an Ethernet based Mobility Switch controller with capabilities to integrate wired and wireless networks in the enterprises.

Cisco systems

Manager, Software Development

Nov 1999 – Jan 2010 · 10 yrs 2 mos

My area of expertise is Edge/Core Routing.
Have worked on a variety of technologies:
Frame Relay, IP QoS, MPLS VPN, IP Multicast, Multicast VPN, PPP/MLPPP/LFI, L2VPN, BFD, IPoDWDM, CNAT