SHARATH SOMASHEKAR — CTO

Highly accomplished engineer with 15+ years of extensive experience in wireless radio access and device product technology development & quality engineering. Proven success in leading internal teams, next generation technology assessments, lab/field trials & automation pipeline development. Extremely organized, efficient at coordinating activities, and building productive cross functional teams. 10+ USPTO approved wireless technology patents. Specialties: • Radio Access Network Architecture Design • Engineering Quality Assurance • Automation workflow development • Technical Vendor Management • Strategic Planning • Robotics, • Semiconductor manufacturing, Principal Engineer, Systems Design @ T-Mobile - Smart Labs, Performance & Automation Team | Network Quality Engineering - Design & buildout of Automation platforms to evaluate greenfield H/w and S/w for advanced technologies (5G NR & LTE) for T-Mobile! Telecom Design Engineer IV (Principal engineer) at Sprint - RAN Systems verification. Design & development of 5G-NR & LTE technology. Team lead for NOKIA & ERC -Macro & small cell technologies Telecom Design Engineer III at Sprint (Network Development) : Design, development and engineering of Sprint's Advanced LTE networks (RAN). Telecom Design Engineer II at Sprint : Design, Development and Engineering of Sprint's LTE Network (RAN). Senior Telecom Engineer (Tier II) at Worldlink INC - deployed with Samsung Telecommunication America On-site Customer Support & Crisis Management Team (STACS). RF Test Engineer for Alcatel-Lucent - Manufacturing, Testing, Troubleshooting Microwave Packet Transceivers (MPT 9500). Specialization in 2-tone modulation tuning, Performance analysis, Assembly process optimization. DM tools: QXDM, XCAL, XCAP, Windcatcher, Various other vendor specific testing and control tools. Experienced team leader with excellent problem solving and management abilities. Subject matter expert in 5GNR & LTE Radio Access Technologies, Small Cell Engineering, system Automation & Microwave radio manufacturing

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications expert with a focus on wireless network architecture and automation.

Location: Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Experience: 16 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Radio Access Network Architecture Design
Automation Workflow Development
Wireless
Engineering Quality Assurance
Technical Vendor Management
Rf Engineering

Career Highlights

15+ years in wireless technology development
10+ USPTO approved patents in wireless technology
Expert in 5G NR and LTE Radio Access Technologies

Work Experience

T-Mobile

Principal Engineer, Systems Design (6 yrs 1 mo)

Sprint

Telecom Design Engineer IV (Principal) (3 yrs 8 mos)

Telecom Design Engineer III (SME) (1 yr 6 mos)

Telecom Design Engineer II (2 yrs)

Samsung Telecommunications America

Senior Telecom Engineer (1 yr)

Alcatel-Lucent

Radio Frequency Test Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)

TelCom printing LLC

Data Management Intern (3 mos)

University of Texas at Arlington

Research Assistant (5 mos)

Education

Master of Science (M.Sc.) at The University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) at B. M. S. College of Engineering

High School at JAIN College

High School at VIdya Niketan School

SHARATH SOMASHEKAR

CTO

Overland Park, Kansas, United States16 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

15+ years in wireless technology development
10+ USPTO approved patents in wireless technology
Expert in 5G NR and LTE Radio Access Technologies

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications expert with a focus on wireless network architecture and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Radio Access Network Architecture DesignAutomation Workflow DevelopmentWirelessEngineering Quality AssuranceTechnical Vendor ManagementRf Engineering

Other Skills

AutomationAI & MLPythonJenkinsMySQLTroubleshootingSystem TestingComponent EngineeringTechnical DocumentationTechnical TrainingFabricationSemiconductor ManufacturingProcess OptimizationSemiconductorsTelecommunications

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Experience

16 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

T-mobile

Principal Engineer, Systems Design

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Principal Design Lead- Smart Labs, Performance, and Automation team, overseeing evaluation and development of LTE/5G/6G radio hardware, software, and firmware. Integral member of a highly selective group of engineers tasked with conducting pioneering studies and detecting elusive issues across cross-domain platforms.
▪ Conduct modeling, analysis, and direct vendor simulations of key greenfield 3GPP technologies (6G/5G/LTE/NTN), performing proof of concept studies including but not limited to
o Network Slicing for Security, Augmented Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR) applications.
o Non-terrestrial network communications (NTN)
o Remote interference detection and mitigation studies for tropospheric ducting.
o Load & Stress system design for RAN
o Fixed wireless access network equipment evaluations.
o Milli-meter wave (Mmw) performance evaluations.
o 6CA DL + 2CA UL carrier Aggregation evaluations.
o new radio hardware/spectrum studies.
o Cloud Gaming latency/jitter/slicing evaluations.
▪ Designed and developed an innovative AI & ML based, end-to-end (E2E) RAN test automation workflow (patent pending) integrating multiple hardware. This system automates the evaluation and root cause analysis of Radio Access Network and device product quality, covering multiple technologies
▪ Authored comprehensive test processes, guidelines, and practices aimed at facilitating seamless Continuous Development and DevOps testing across multiple vendor equipment for both internal engineers and vendor resources.
▪ Supervised a team of automation engineers and developers in constructing automation pipelines and big data analytics tools to assess software quality. Leveraged Rest API as the automation engine, Jenkins as the execution engine, MySQL for databasing, and Python development for implementation. Managed various third-party network elements, including switches, attenuators, UE control tools, and analyzers, to ensure seamless integration and effective testing procedures.

WirelessRadio Access Network Architecture DesignAutomation workflow development

Sprint

3 roles

Telecom Design Engineer IV (Principal)

Promoted

Aug 2016 – Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Overland Park, Kansas

# Development/field integration, system level testing and operational readiness on high profile projects across the Radio Access Networks (RAN) and wireless backhaul technologies.
# Lead the team to identify and resolve complex operational issues, ensure highest quality standards, and meet project deadlines and within budget.
# Designed workflows and oversaw development of first ever automation in Sprint's FIT testing/End to End Validation process to accelerate results from data collection/post processing of field data.
# Led activities for field testing in Integration of network merger activities – S1 Rehome, Mobility Management and Inter-technology validation testing for Sprint-TMO.
# Team lead for Mini-macro (small cell) technology within the systems verification FIT team.

WirelessRadio Access Network Architecture DesignEngineering Quality Assurance

Telecom Design Engineer III (SME)

Feb 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Overland Park, Kansas

Design, Development and Engineering of Sprint's next generation 800MHz , 1900MHz & 2.5GHz - 4G/ LTE Macro and Pico Networks (Radio Access Network).
I research, design, plan, develop & evaluate advanced network technologies by translating Sprint's requirements and strategic business objectives into final product design. My work comprises of in-depth assessment of networked application needs, providing network modeling and simulation testing and consulting to further clarify needs with vendors to engineering high-speed technology network transports, delivering application functionality.

WirelessRadio Access Network Architecture DesignEngineering Quality Assurance

Telecom Design Engineer II

Feb 2013 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs · Overland Park, Kansas

Design, Development and Engineering of Sprint's next generation 800MHz , 1900MHz & 2.5GHz 4G/ LTE Networks (Radio Access Network). I research, design, plan, develop & evaluate advanced network technologies by translating Sprint's requirements and strategic business objectives into final product design. Work typically includes in-depth assessment of networked application needs, providing network modeling and simulation testing, consulting to further clarify needs with vendors, and engineering high-speed technology network transports to deliver application functionality.

WirelessRadio Access Network Architecture DesignEngineering Quality Assurance

Samsung telecommunications america

Senior Telecom Engineer

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Overland Park, Kansas

TIER II Customer support /Crisis management team (STACS) providing onsite technical support on RAN/CORE of customer’s 3G/4G network.
 Troubleshooting support - WSS, MGW, MMBS, BSC, RRH, Microwave, Backhaul, Routing Issues.
 Conference call leadership & troubleshooting, co-ordination with third-party vendors on live customer network, managing network optimization with customer TIER II and TIER III teams.
 Perform trending analysis, RCA development, review & support of software releases, patches, MOP verifications & upgrade executions.

WirelessTechnical Vendor ManagementEngineering Quality Assurance

Alcatel-lucent

Radio Frequency Test Engineer

May 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Longview, Texas

Development and Implementation of Microwave Packet Transceiver Radios (MPT9500).
 Manufacturing & assembly of Radio systems from module to component level.
 Special Responsibilities: 2-tone modulation tests and tuning for 5-6 & 10-11GHz units.
 Burn-in testing, thermal evaluations & product quality assessments.

WirelessRF EngineeringEngineering Quality Assurance

Telcom printing llc

Data Management Intern

Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 · 3 mos · Euless, texas

Secure data handling and encrypted data management electronic cards. Production floor management and Logistic support.

University of texas at arlington

Research Assistant

Mar 2009 – Aug 2009 · 5 mos · Arlington, Texas

Researched current trends in 3D packing using TSV’s with design challenges forthcoming with Mechanical and electrical domains and proposed newer designs for mounting chips in 3-D