Vipul Kothari

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 2 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led successful AI product integration initiatives.
Established a strategic R&D center in India.
Managed a $100M+ global IAM product line.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Software Engineering and AI integration within Networking and Identity Security domains.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentNetworkingProduct ManagementCloud ArchitectureProduct LeadershipManufacturing Automation

Other Skills

Optical SwitchingEmbedded CLinuxPythonYANGgNMI/gNOIOpenConfigMicroservicesCloud ApplicationsJavaRESTAWSCloudFormationAngular JSContainers

About

My Software Engineering, Product Development & AI enablement experience across Networking, Identity Security; IAM & IGA, Manufacturing automation and FinTech domains has been enriching. I have enjoyed working closely with customers, stakeholders and team members across the globe. I have set up GCC teams ground up, driven product growth across Enterprise & cloud-hosted solutions, managed Managers & Architects, done Product Management stints and scaled high-performance R&D centers. In recent times, experience with AI product integration and organization level AI adoption initiatives has been fascinating. People recognize me for impact and result orientation, strong data orientation & analytics understanding and my ability to translate complex customer needs into product requirements followed by execution. Currently, I serve as the Head of the Software Development Centre for HUBER+SUHNER in Bangalore. I have a Masters' Degree in (Electronics) Communication Engineering from IIT Bombay

Experience

28 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Huber+suhner polatis

Head - Software Development Centre

Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

AI-Driven Data Center Networking and High-Capacity Optical Networking
Site Leader: Founded the Bangalore R&D GCC, responsible for everything from identifying office space & lab to building Engineering teams. A startup environment to begin, an opportunity to build from zero and establish India as a strategic Software Engineering hub.
Product ownership: Directing Software teams for all-optical network switches, enabling efficient scaling of network resources for Hyperscale and AI Data Centers. This contributed to annual revenue portfolio growing from $40M to $80M+. The solution is more energy efficient, provides faster responses and is easier to maintain.
Agile Transformation: Established the center's Agile development and delivery processes, eventually driving consistent results for the global business unit.
Tech Stack: Embedded C, Linux, Python, YANG, gNMI/gNOI, OpenConfig, Networking, NMS/EMS.

Optical SwitchingNetworkingEmbedded CLinuxPythonYANG+3

Micro focus

Senior Manager Engineering

Oct 2014 – Nov 2020 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

IAM & IGA, Identity
Portfolio Management: Owned $100M+ Global Identity Management (IAM) product line globally, managing 70+ team members across Development, Test, and Documentation.
Strategic Integration: For improved Gartner magic quadrant & Forrester wave product positioning, led platform integration across Identity and Access Management solutions through Hackfest and innovation ideas.
Cloud Architecture: Re-architected & transformed monolithic products into containerized Microservices/Macroservices for AWS and Azure, driving the "As-A-Service" delivery model from concept to production. Owned proof-of-concept prototypes for Identity Service platform to drive delivery of unified Identity Governance and Access solutions for IGA market space.
Engineering Efficiency: Recognized for increasing efficiency across diverse tech stacks, decision making based on customer revenue data, driving focus on persona based user scenarios and significantly improving Mindmap-based and REST automation testing. Practitioner of Lean product development, Agile (Scrum), Kanban, and TOC based CCPM.
Tech Stack: Java, REST, Kafka, AWS, CloudFormation, Angular JS, Database, Containers, CI/CD, Python, Selenium projects.

MicroservicesCloud ApplicationsJavaRESTAWSCloudFormation+7

Novell

2 roles

Associate Senior Manager

Oct 2011 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Managed multi-geography teams, including US product development, to drive platform integration across products.
Led global product Engineering, aligning with market opportunities and analyst direction.
Mentored managers and technical leads, fostering the development of several technical leaders.

Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2007 – Oct 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos

File Sync and Share, File hosting service
Product Leadership: Transitioned from Individual Contributor to Product Leadership, leveraging multi-disciplinary perspective from Engineering, Business Analysis, and Product Management. Loved the opportunity to translate past experience and have a wider influence and much bigger impact.
Strategy Pivot: In highly ambiguous environment, owned up to work closely with Legal to transform iFolder software from Open Source to proprietary revenue driven product; influenced Sales, Marketing & Product Management for change of business strategy and product roadmap for improved BU top-line.
Process Excellence: Established the Excellence-Process for PM-Engineering interaction and drove improvements in requirements prioritization, quality initiatives and build & release management.

Technical LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentProduct Leadership

Intel corporation

Product Manager, Business Analyst

Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs

Semiconductor Manufacturing Software/Automation
Manufacturing Automation: Working with Intel factory staff around the globe, conceptualized supply chain automation solutions that reduced information retrieval time by >80%. This engagement was an eye opener, realizing that in software keeping things simple (for customer) is hard, while making them complex is easy.
Data Integrity: Defined and owned requirements to automate extraction and standardization of hidden data formats (Images, Tables) to optimize Information availability for Machine Technicians; resulting in 30% + time savings across Intel factories.
Intellectual Property: Partnering with factory technicians around the world with varied culture and background, there were so many insights, so many ideas. I filed multiple invention disclosures that eventually became Intel Trade Secrets.

Product ManagementManagementManufacturing Automation

Verifone

Software Design Engineer

Feb 1998 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Payments Technology, FinTech
Embedded Drivers: Designed the Smart Card Device Driver for Linux (BlueCat), implementing channel claim/release and tracking card activity across devices.
Banking and Finance: Designed and developed Visa and MasterCard smart card applications, including core components for chip logic, environmental services, and business logic.