Avinash Ganesh

CEO

Mysore, Karnataka, India21 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over 23 years of experience in the software industry.
  • Expert in product management and strategy development.
  • Strong communication skills influencing executive leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Product Management leader in Telecommunications and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementSolution ArchitectureSoftware Development

Other Skills

AI Data FoundryLeadershipGen AI Data PlatformVision DefinitionStrategyRoadmapBig Data AnalyticsMobile NetworksRoaming AnalyticsRevenue OptimizationNetwork AnalyticsMarket ResearchProduct DevelopmentOSS Inventory ReconciliationNetwork Discovery

About

Avinash is a seasoned professional with over 23 years of experience in the software industry. His current role is Associate Vice President Product Management at Centific. Avinash has experience defining strategy and roadmap for products ranging from products that have been in the market for over a decade to launch a brand new product to the market. Before moving into the Product management role, Avinash has played multiple roles within the product engineering, delivery and pre-sales organizations like Product Architect, Solutions Architect, Technical Sales, etc. Avinash has experiences ranging from - Performing market research, roadmap definition, assessing the competitive landscape - Customer-facing roles like pre-sales business case development, product demonstrations, and presentation, solution definition - Core product design, development, and engineering. Avinash possesses strong Communication and interpersonal skills. He is tasked regularly to influence executive leadership teams of enterprises with his presentations. He is also a great team player. Avinash interacts with customers, partners, and colleagues from all around the globe. He also is a keen traveler and has visited many countries. This exposure has enabled him to be appreciative of and sensitive to regional and cultural diversities. Avinash holds a Masters's degree in Telecom and Software engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, US and a Bachelors's degree in Electronics and communication engineering from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. Besides his profession, Avinash is an enthusiastic photographer, an amateur painter, loves to travel, interested in astronomy and is also very keen to experience various adventure sports.

Experience

Centific

Associate Vice President

Jun 2025Sep 2025 · 3 mos · Mysore, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Leading the Vision, Strategy and Roadmap of AI Data Foundry platform of Centific. Providing guidance and leadership to the entire India Product Management and User Experience team.
Product ManagementAI Data FoundryLeadership

Uniphore

3 roles

Senior Director of Product Management

Aug 2024Jun 2025 · 10 mos · On-site

  • Heading Gen AI Data Platform Vision and Strategy at Uniphore
Gen AI Data PlatformProduct Management

Director of Product Management

Nov 2022Jul 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

Director of Product Management

Apr 2020Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · On-site

Mobileum

2 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Apr 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Definition of the vision, strategy and road map for the following product and offering areas of Mobileum.
  • Active Intelligence Platform - This platform provides a combination of a) Big Data Analytics capabilities to produce actionable insights and b) an ability to action on the insights generated to alter the behavior of the mobile network
  • NFV and Cloud Adoption - Responsible for driving the NFV and cloud adoption strategy across all product offerings for Mobileum
  • Roaming Analytics Line of Products - Responsible for driving the Roaming analytics line of products in order to help Mobile service providers to increase revenue with Retail analytics and optimize costs with wholesale analytics.
Vision DefinitionStrategyRoadmapProduct Management

Associate Director - Product Management

Jul 2017Mar 2018 · 8 mos

Velankani communications technologies

Associate Director

Jul 2016Jun 2017 · 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Headed the Product Management practice for Velankani.

Subex ltd

3 roles

Product Manager

Apr 2013Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Product Manager for 3 Products which encompass the Network Analytics Suit of Products at Subex.
  • ROC Data Integrity Management (Network Discovery and Reconciliation. Previously called TrueSource)
  • ROC Capacity Management
  • ROC Asset Assurance.
  • Responsible for the Following
  • Performing market research, analyzing industry trends, assessing competitive landscape and creation of strategic vision and direction for the products
  • Creating Business cases for the road map releases of each product that he manages
  • Developing detailed Product requirement documentations to the engineering teams for each road map release
  • Work closely with Marketing to design marketing campaigns for each road map release
  • Technical and commercial enablement of Sales and Pre-sales teams on the approach and methodology to sell a new product release.
Product ManagementNetwork Analytics

Solution Architect

Promoted

Apr 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Responsible for designing OSS inventory reconciliation solution using Network Discovery at large tier 1 Telecom service providers like Telstra in Australia
  • Architected the technology pack based circuit stitching platform for the following network technologies
  • o Mobile networking GSM, UMTS, LTE
  • o Sonet/SDH/PDH with multiple protection schemes
  • o DWDM
  • o L3 IP-MPLS VPN
  • o Carrier Ethernet topologies (Lan and Vlan segments)
  • o L2 VPN, (VPWS, VPLS, H-VPLS)
  • Delivered ROC DIM Product demonstrations to multiple customers across all regions including CxO community
  • Lead successful PoC projects of Discovery, Reconciliation, Asset management and Assurance solutions at large Telcos like Airtel, Bell Canada, Optus, Idea etc
  • Hardware sizing and estimations for multiple opportunities
  • Compliance matrix for RFP responses for multiple opportunities
OSS Inventory ReconciliationNetwork DiscoverySolution Architecture

Technical Anchor

Oct 2007Mar 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Responsible for driving requirement analysis and guiding a team to deliver roadmap releases for OSS Service activation and OSS Discovery & reconciliation products
  • Developed good understand on Authentication, Authorization, Single sign on etc
  • Experience working on network management protocols like SNMP, SSH, Telnet, MML, CMIP, Web services
  • Accountable for design quality of all product components
  • Responsible for driving performance benchmarking and tuning of product components
  • Mentoring the team on software development and telecom networking technologies
  • Programming technologies used; Core Java, Web Service, Spring framework, Hibernate, JMS, Pl/Sql
Requirement AnalysisSoftware Development

Nokia siemens networks

Executive Engineer

Jul 2003Sep 2007 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Part of a team responsible for developing mobile network elements configuration viewer product from scratch.
  • Design and development of a many key components in the ontology framework of the configuration management product of mobile core NMS
  • Handled Load and Stress related issues of the components introduced in the CM ontology framework.
  • Programming technologies used; C++, Pl/Sql
Configuration ManagementLoad and Stress TestingSoftware Development

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology

MS — Telecommunication and Software Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

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