Sachin Naik

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered India's first custom Android OS, HIVE.
  • Developed top-ranked music player, Fusion, with 8 million downloads.
  • Led Xolo to become a top-selling smartphone brand.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Technology expert with a focus on product development and innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentAndroid

Other Skills

Embedded SystemsTeam ManagementBluetoothMobile PlatformsDevice DriversEmbedded SoftwareDebuggingMobile DevicesEmbedded LinuxWirelessLinuxMobile ApplicationsMobile CommunicationsCTesting

About

An entrepreneur with extensive experience in industrial design, hardware development, and product life cycle management. # Conceived and built India's first custom ROM named Hive. Scaled it across 8 different handsets with a 100,000-strong user base. During its peak, HIVE had themes from 100 leading artists and had collaborations with companies like Facebook, InMobi, and the Times Group # Led development first of its kind integrated music player Fusion. With 8 million downloads on the Android market, this music player was among the top 5 in the world # Made a significant impact as Xolo's Product Head in fostering successful partnerships with Chinese ODMs for the launch of a range of products that made Xolo the top-selling brand in the mid-range smartphone market

Experience

25 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Cuzorlabs

Building Cuzorlabs

Nov 2020Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Ottomate international

Senior Vice President Product Engineering

Feb 2018Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

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Lava international limited

3 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Jul 2015Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Engaging various stake holders in the Indian internet economy to create compelling solutions for the mobile first users in India.
  • Responsible for technology led innovations starting from strategy,business case validation and execution
  • Exploring various investment led opportunities for Lava, in startup space for creating mutually beneficial partnerships.
  • Building partnerships with key players in mobile ecosystem including chipset partners and design houses in China and various partner companies in India
  • Nurturing a high performance team
  • . Closed an equity based partnership with a funded startup
  • . Created expertise in areas of user research and data sciences
  • . Partnerships signed with Google and Facebook for enhanced user information exchange and advertisement revenue

Head Product Development

Promoted

Mar 2013Feb 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Lead development of India's first custom Android OS called ""HIVE". A first of its kind bringing together artists,users and developer community.
  • Built teams to create excellence in the areas of audio and imaging for XOLO brand.
  • Lead teams in India and China to ensure component selection and manufacturing quality for XOLO smartphones
  • Established all verticals from development, testing and user research teams in Bangalore
AndroidEmbedded SystemsProduct DevelopmentTeam Management

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2011May 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Started intraprenural journey as founding member of R&D
  • With a small team built Xolo switch, an extension for multi user profile over Android. While it enabled young audience to create multiple social profiles. It also enabled parents to create kids tube which successfully blocked adult content. Hence making youtube content engaging and useful for kids.
  • Built end to end security for Android devices over SMS gateway. Providing end user an ability to track,erase and lock their devices.
  • Fusion a complete music player was built considering emerging market requirements in mind. And was widely accepted in India and Brazil. Fusion was also among the top 10 players in the playstore for 2 years.
AndroidEmbedded SystemsProduct DevelopmentTeam Management

Mindtree

Senior Manager Wireless Technology

Oct 2009Feb 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangaon, West Bengal, India

  • Part of a group called NIW(Next In Wireless). Working on Android based smartphone. Currently leading the team responsible for Board Bring up, Device driver development and 3G Modem integration.

Kyocera wireless india pvt ltd

Manager Software Engineering

Sep 2007Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangaon, West Bengal, India

  • o As Manager I am responsible for understanding customer requirements related Data service,Bluetooth ,CDMA L3 layers and implementing these requirements across Kyocera Handset product line.
  • o Responsible for resolving inter operability issues on Bluetooth across various Bluetooth Profiles.

Kyocera wireless india

Senior Engineer

Dec 2003Sep 2007 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • o Design and development of an abstraction layer to migrate BREW based data centric applications across various platforms.
  • o Customizing Data protocol stack (TCP/IP, Mobile IP, PPP) for different carriers. (Verizon Wireless, ALLTEL, VMU, VIVO etc)

Sanyo lsi india pvt ltd

Senior Engineer Embedded Systems

Jun 2000Dec 2003 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bangaon, West Bengal, India

  • .Design and Development of network enablers for Sanyo Digital Cameras.
  • . Embedded TCP/IP suite development
  • . Picture Transfer Protocol
  • . HCI and L2CAP layer design and development on SPARC processor platform
  • . PAN and BPP profile development
  • . Good understanding of Bluetooth Qualification process

Education

Karnatak University

BE — Electronics & Communication

Jan 1995Jan 2000

ACTS-CDAC

PGD — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2000

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