Jan 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Leading the Voice & Internal Platform Teams at Plivo

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Leading the Zentrunk, Numbers & FinSys Teams at Plivo
• Zentrunk is the Cloud based SIP Trunking Solution from Plivo.
• Numbers & Finsys are Internal Allied Platform Products at Plivo.

Mar 2020 – Aug 2020 · 5 mos

Sep 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

• E2E Engineering Responsibility for the MiVoice Connect Solution. Building and leading a team of 30 engineers to deliver high quality software and excellent customer experience.

Nov 2017 – Aug 2018 · 9 mos

Jan 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• IOT & New Protocol Development
• IOT and Protocol development Team is responsible for handling the delivery of IOT based Solutions and Development from scratch of New Protocols which enhance performance and value
• Contribution:
•  Charter Planning, Preparation and Overall Execution. Version Manager for all new Development Project work for the Team
•  End to End Delivery Responsibility for Delivery of R-Versions
•  Leading and Managing a Team of 40+ people
•  High quality delivery under the critical and high pressure situations with Effective Version planning, Iteration / sprint planning, Tracking and Risk management.

Aug 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• RAI/XML/AAA
• RAI is a domain team, with responsibility of developing and maintaining VOIP protocols such as SIP, DIAMETER, DNS - ENUM, RTSP, SDP etc.
• XML is a domain Team with responsibility of developing and maintaining protocols such as SOAP, HTTP, MRCP, XML Parser, MPB, etc
• AAA is a domain Team with responsibility of developing and maintaining protocols such as Diameter, LDAP, Timergroup, H323, H248
• Contribution:
•  End to End Delivery Responsibility for XML/RAI Domains(Overall 40+ Components).
•  Sprint Planning and Execution
•  Execution & tracking of new feature implementations and enhancements to protocol components with very high quality.
•  Lead the team in post release support to all the products deployed in the network, handled patch release to market
•  Process improvements and continuous improvements based on the bottlenecks identified, resulting in high efficiency and productivity

Jun 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• RAI
• RAI is the core domain team, with responsibility of developing and maintaining protocols such as SIP, DIAMETER, DNS - ENUM, RTSP, SDP etc.
• Contribution:
•  Solely processing the requirements for any new feature enhancements request from product for protocols such as DNS - ENUM, RTSP & SDP.
•  Also responsible for managing all sprints of RAI Domain (16 Protocol Stacks are covered under RAI).
•  Primary responsibility is of Scrum Master for RAI, as per scrum, including but not limited to Sprint Planning and Management, Backlog Maintenance as well as direct contribution to Sprint as Technical Lead/Product Owner for some of the components under RAI umbrella.

Jul 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• DNS-ENUM, RTSP, SDP Stacks
•  DNS - ENUM Stack is the framework which acts as a DNS client and provides the ability to send DNS Queries and Process Responses from DNS Servers. It has use in both IMS and LTE in conjunction with SIP and Diameter.
•  RTSP Stack is used in communication systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points.
•  SDP Stack provides encoding and decoding capabilities for describing streaming media initialization parameters and is primarily used for capability exchange by protocols like SIP, RTSP etc.
• Contribution:
•  Analysis for New Feature Development including discussing requirements with customers.
•  Implementation and Review of Code Developed
•  Bug fixes and Quality Improvement Initiatives
•  Mentoring of Junior Members
• Project title: Technical Research Project on XSLT
• Role: Module Lead
• Designation: Senior Software Engineer
• Language/Platform: C on windows and UNIX
• Aim was to evaluate different technologies used for XSLT parsing along with evaluation of performance for parsing speed of different existing parsers, including the ones from third party vendors.
• Contribution: Worked as an individual contributor of Pre-Research for High performance XML Parsing. Also, to prototype some of the existing available parsers in market to establish their performance claim

Jul 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

• XML Parser Project
• XML parser was based on Open Source XML parser LibXml. LibXml is a parser in C which follows XML 1.0 Specification. It Supports both DOM and SAX based parsing methodologies.
• Contribution:
•  Componentization and Porting of LibXml on Different Platforms based on User Requirements
•  Feature Enhancements and Bug Fixes, also contributed to the Open Source Community and was acknowledged for the same on the official website (http://xmlsoft.org/news.html).
•  Travelled to Shenzhen, China for Technical Support and to market XML parser to Product Development Teams in an effort to increase customer base.
•  Awarded for Contribution to Open Source Community.
•  Gold Medal from Huawei HQ for XML Parser Team.
• Project title: CCXML Project
• Role: Developer (Parser Module)
• Language/Platform: C on Windows and UNIX
• Development of Interpreter for CCXML 1.0 from scratch. It involved all the phases of the project life cycle, including system testing.
• Contribution:
•  Worked as a member of development team for CCXML Interpreter project with primarily responsible for design and development of Parser modules for form interpretation.
•  Involved in all the phases of project lifecycle viz. SRS, HLD, LLD, Coding and all the testing phases. I was also involved during the defect fix phase done for system design verification testing.
•  Implemented a separate framework for Parser Based Testing.