Jul 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Built a new engineering team in India to design and develop core features for Azure Application Gateway, one of the fastest growing Layer 7 load balancing services in Azure. Spearheaded several innovative integrations and features related to monitoring and URL Rewrite.
• Led the engineering effort for development and commercial launch of Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) cloud service in Azure that helps enterprises monitor network performance between various points in their network infrastructure (on-premises as well as cloud). It also helps Customer to monitor network connectivity to application endpoints and monitor the performance of Azure ExpressRoute.
• Responsible for product features conceptualization, architecture, development and engineering side delivery with continuous focus towards growth, security, privacy, availability and reliability.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kitchener, Canada Area

• Advanced entrepreneurial movement towards wireless technology innovation and development. Developed advance wireless platform for Industry’s first LTE connected sensing IoT/M2M platform.
• In particular worked on,
• LTE CAT-0 IoT’s Power Saving Mode feature to showcase 10+ years battery life
• Highly optimized emergency network scanning algorithms to provide reliable E911 connectivity using Voice over IMS
• Mobile side LTE positioning protocol (LPP) and Location Services (LCS) based on GNSS and Wireless measurements.

May 2014 – Jan 2015 · 8 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed large telecom and software R&D client engagements including evaluation of client's technologies, products and operations to estimate potential R&D tax credits.
• Role involved diverse stakeholders’ interactions with Client’s engineering leadership and technical team, preparation of comprehensive technical project report and financial evaluation of the overall tax claim size based on analysis of innovative R&D projects.
• Planned, organized and executed multi million dollar innovation tax claims on behalf of clients while maintaining the allotted budget to attain expected profit margins.

Jul 2008 – Mar 2014 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Waterloo, ON

• Led team of 8+ developer for design and development of LTE protocol stack modules at the handset based on 3GPP Release 8 and 9. Participated in several phases of project from concept to prototype and to final platform. Involved in following activities:
• Multi RAT (2G, 3G and 4G) architecture, interface definition and coding based on 3GPP specs.
• Interactions with several cross teams and stakeholders to develop feasible CSG solution based on specification and Network operator requirements.
• Integration, debugging and key performance metrics analysis for various cellular modem features.
• Identified work breakdown structure for the team and involved in feature prioritization based on requirements and resources available.
• Engaged in active reporting of the project status to senior management.
• Hands on coding using C on embedded/real time ARM based mobile platform involving multi-tasking, inter processor communication, state machine and memory management
• Development, maintenance and testing for the GSM/GPRS/EDGE protocol stack. Member of a core team responsible for delivering complete radio stack of Blackberry Curve 8900 on new baseband.
• Filed several system level optimization patents with specific focus on Layer 1, RLC / MAC and RR modules.

Oct 2005 – Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Enabled Aricent to enter new market of handset side baseband software (2G/3G) by leading technical interactions with international customers. Provided technical solutions, presentations and roadmap for the requested projects that helped in winning strategic accounts.
• Led the setup and expansion of team for Non Access Stratum (NAS) subsystem development and maintenance for US based cellular baseband vendor. Was responsible for technically leading the team of 7 developers, handling the project as per the agreed processes and interfacing with the customer. Faster ramp up of the team and accurate resolution of the reported issues helped Aricent to bag the “Best offshore partner” award.
• Led the team of 5 software developers to come up with the first prototype of OMAP platform based Video streaming application using open source linux kernel.
• Got the acceptance of proposed idea of WiMAX MAC Layer development from business group. Architected and developed core UE side MAC modules in the host environment using IEEE 802.16e specification.

Feb 2003 – Oct 2005 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Noida Area, India

• Worked as a technical lead for System Testing of the GSM/GPRS/EDGE based mobile platforms.
• Worked in design and development of Release 99 features of 3GPP specifications for GSM/GPRS technology for Mobility Management(MM) layer at NAS
• Setup power consumption test setup to perform comparative analysis of in-house platform with reference devices in the market. Interacted with Systems Team to identify areas of improvement for in-house platform.

Jun 2000 – Feb 2003 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Participated in requirements, design, and development and testing of Lucent’s first product of 1xEvDO (CDMA2000) controller. Developed various modules related to O&M, Real time Hot-Standby network equipment fault recovery procedures and call processing of the 1xEvDO controller using C++ under Solaris and VxWorks environment
• Analyzed and diagnosed various field issues reported by the testers. Helped in achieving the capacity of active users in 1xEvDO controller by suggesting improvements based on captured profiling reports