Abhishek Singh

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • 20 years of experience in telecommunications industry.
  • Expert in AI, Data Engineering, and MLOps.
  • Proven leadership in building high-performing engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in AI and telecommunications, specializing in system architecture and MLOps.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai And Data EngineeringSystem DesignSystem ArchitectureMlopsGuest Lecturing

Other Skills

Agentic WorkflowsAgentic AI DevelopmentData EngineeringLarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)KubeflowAWS SageMakerAzure DatabricksMentoringPythonMachine LearningSecurity Architecture DesignGenerative AI with Large Language ModelsWebServicesDebuggingJUnit

About

With 20 years of rich experience in the telecommunications industry across leading organizations like Motorola Mobile Devices, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Networks, I am currently as Head of AI and Data Engineering at Technology Standards, Nokia. Professional Strengths • Leadership, Mentoring & Team Development: Strong track record of leading, coaching, and uplifting high-performing engineering teams. Focused on fostering continuous learning, conducting regular code/design reviews, defining best engineering practices, and helping team members grow into leadership roles. • Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, mentor engineers, and drive them toward a unified technical vision and delivery goals. • Agile & Scrum Leadership: Experienced Scrum Master leading cross-functional teams across geographies. Proficient in sprint planning, backlog refinement, capacity assessment, risk mitigation, and ensuring smooth execution of Agile ceremonies. • Project & Delivery Management: Successful delivery leader with expertise in breaking down complex requirements, defining clear roadmaps, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery of mission-critical AI/ML and cloud solutions. • Conflict Resolution & Team Alignment: Skilled at identifying and resolving technical or interpersonal conflicts early. Adept at mediating discussions, facilitating consensus, and steering teams toward unified decisions while maintaining a positive, collaborative work culture. • Product and Design Collaboration: Active contributor in technical ideation, design discussions, feasibility analysis, and interactions with product management, standardization bodies, and architectural councils. • Skilled at designing systems that balance innovation, maintainability, interoperability, and cost efficiency. • Research Aptitude: Strong aptitude for research in security in AI/ML systems, trusted and secure LLM deployments, LLMOps optimizations, agentic AI architectures, and operational strategies for large-scale AI ecosystems.

Experience

19 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
9 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
15 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Nokia

7 roles

Head of AI and Data Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos

  • Heading the AI & Data Engineering Team in Technology Standards – Research & Innovation – AI & Platforms, where I lead the development of core AI, data, and platform capabilities that underpin Nokia’s shift toward an AI‑first R&I organization. This includes evolving the AgentOps and Agentic AI frameworks, architecting common AI & data platforms, enabling cloud‑native simulation environments, and building scalable data engineering pipelines that power research, standardization, and next‑generation AI workflows.
Agentic WorkflowsAgentic AI DevelopmentData EngineeringLarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)AI and Data EngineeringSystem Design

Principal Architect - AI/ML

Promoted

Apr 2024Feb 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Core Competencies
  • System Architecture: Proficient in designing robust and scalable systems with detailed blueprints of components, interfaces, and communication protocols. Expertise in selecting optimal technologies, frameworks, and tools tailored to project demands while documenting best practices for long-term architectural alignment.
  • Cloud and Containerization Expertise: Skilled in Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native design patterns to build efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions.
  • Microservices Architecture: A design-first advocate, implementing microservices-based architectures, RESTful APIs, and utilizing Swagger/OpenAPI for documentation, testing, and collaborative development.
  • MLOps, LLMOps, AIOps, and Automation: Hands-on expertise in architecting automation workflows across the ML and GenAI lifecycle, including data ingestion, preprocessing, training, deployment, monitoring, and continuous retraining. Experience with tools like Kubeflow, MLflow, AWS SageMaker, Langfuse for LLM observability, and vector databases for semantic retrieval. Skilled in building highly reliable LLMOps and AIOps frameworks for large-scale AI deployments.
  • GenAI, Agentic AI & Orchestration Frameworks: Strong experience with modern GenAI stacks, including LangChain, LangGraph, and Langfuse for developing agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and production-ready LLM-based systems. Expertise in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), reasoning agents, tool orchestration, and multi-agent collaborative architectures.
  • Data & Search Technologies: Proficient in PostgreSQL, vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, Milvus, pgvector), and Elasticsearch for designing scalable knowledge retrieval systems, semantic search, and enterprise-grade data architectures.
  • Strong foundation in security, scalability, and performance optimization for AI/ML, GenAI, and large-scale distributed systems.
System ArchitectureMLOps

Senior Architect - MLOps

Apr 2022Apr 2024 · 2 yrs

  • Working and contributing to various areas of product development:
  • System Architecture
  • Craft detailed blueprints for the system, including components, interfaces, and communication protocols.
  • Evaluate and choose suitable technologies, tools, and frameworks based on project needs and constraints.
  • Guide and mentor development teams on implementing the architectural designs.
  • MLOps
  • Defining the overall MLOps strategy, collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements for an MLOps pipeline.
  • Choosing and integrating tools and technologies, selecting appropriate tools for data pipelines, model training, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
  • Designing automation workflow architecture, automating various stages of the ML lifecycle, including data ingestion, preprocessing, model training, deployment, and feedback loops.
  • ​​​​​​Building versatile ML development and AI deployment setups (pipelines and/or platforms) and other MLOps solutions to enable production-level AI and ML in multi-cloud environments.
  • Optimizing infrastructure, building robust and scalable infrastructure for efficient model training and deployment.
  • Training and mentoring teams, educating stakeholders on MLOps principles and best practices to foster a culture of automation and observability.
KubeflowAWS SageMakerAzure DatabricksMentoringSystem designMLOps+3

System Architect

Promoted

Mar 2020Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Design and Development of SON and Network Management Systems.
  • Identification of Machine Learning use cases, developing prototypes and executing PoC at
  • customers.
  • Preparation of MLOps workflows (pipeline) for SON production deployments.
  • Preparation of feature specifications of security and ML related features.
  • Transformation of the classic SON to cloud native architecture.
  • Coaching & Mentoring team and developing talent.
  • Gathering Industry, Market & Technology Insights.
  • Worked on the following ML use cases in SON:
  • ML enabled root cause analysis and classification with automated remediation.
  • ML based mobility load balancing (MLB).
  • KPI prediction service using ANN enhanced with Embedding.
  • Reinforcement Learning based mobility load balancing (RL-MLB) using Q-Learning.
System designMLOpsPythonMachine LearningSystem Design

Software Specialist

Promoted

Dec 2015Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Actively involved in architecture, design and development of EdenNet SON solution.
  • Nokia EdenNet lets operators automate operations and realize the full potential of their existing
  • 2G, 3G, 4G networks while supporting the transformation to 5G.
  • Providing a centralized SON platform, it automates operations across multiple technologies,
  • eliminating complexities from multi-vendor and multi-layered networks.
  • The wide range of ready-made SON modules take self-configuring, self-healing and self-
  • optimizing actions that boost network performance and efficiency.
System designPythonSystem Design

Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Worked on a Platform (developed from scratch) and common services which were used by
  • various OSS products at Nokia.
  • Started learning and working on Nokia EdenNet SON solution.

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Worked on Nokia's NetAct. Nokia's NetAct is a field proven network management system that
  • offers best-in-class applications for seamless daily network operations, including configuration
  • management, monitoring and software management. NetAct supports network elements in
  • mobile radio and core, Wi-Fi, IoT, public safety and telco cloud. I worked on following
  • components of NetAct (OSS):
  • Adaptation Manager
  • Mediator Dispatcher
  • Notification Handler
  • Network Element Access Control
  • Credential Library
  • Mediation using SNMP

Bits pilani work integrated learning programmes

Guest Faculty

Oct 2023May 2024 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Guest Faculty - BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes for MLOps and related courses.
Guest LecturingMLOpsMachine Learning

Lucent technologies

Software Engineer

Dec 2006Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on development of Adapter and Communication Layer for Alcatel-Lucent's Wireless
  • Network Management System (WNMS) which managed UMTS Networks (3G). This Adapter
  • and Communication Layer was responsible for various operations between WNMS and
  • OneBTSEquipment (Lucent's NodeB). Continued contributing to WNMS and supported
  • deployment (FOA to GA) at AT&T USA and handled customer cases with quick turnaround time.
  • Preparing Low level design and High level design.
  • Coding in Core Java using CORBA and SNMP.
  • Unit Testing using Junit and Clover.
  • Integration and performance testing for various components.
  • Resolving customer issues with quick turnaround time.
  • Training and mentoring of new joinees in the team.

Motorola solutions

Intern

Jul 2006Dec 2006 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on areas related to Security in Wireless Communication.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Engineering (M.E.) - Full Time - On Campus — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Full Time — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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