Arun kumar Prabhakaran

CEO

Seattle, WA, USA24 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in software development and product management.
Led high-performing teams at Amazon and Cisco.
Expert in cloud computing and telecommunications engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Telecommunications Engineering expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingTeam LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentTeam ManagementProduct DevelopmentEngineering ManagementTelecommunications Engineering

Other Skills

AWS servicescross-functional collaborationCloud Managed ServiceHCI softwareEdge ComputingNCS1002stakeholder managementIOS/IOS-XR/Nx-OS platformssecurity featuresWiMAX ASN-GWLTE SGPWLTE core gatewayRAN sideLTE EPC Network elementsprotocol stacks

About

With over 20 years of experience in software development, services, and product management, I am a seasoned leader in various domains such as networking, data center, cloud computing, telecom, wireless, and embedded products. I currently serve as the Site Leader and SDM at Amazon, where I lead and manage a team of engineers and architects to deliver high-quality solutions for Amazon customers. As a certified AWS professional and an alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, I have a strong combination of technical skills, business acumen, and strategic vision. I have successfully contributed to the development and launch of several innovative and scalable products, such as Cisco HyperFlex, NCS1002, AST9K and WiMAX NWG R6/R4. I have also worked closely with various cross-functional teams and stakeholders across multiple geographies, using both waterfall and agile methodologies. I am passionate about solving complex problems, exceeding customer expectations, and building technical teams from scratch.

Experience

24 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

2 roles

SDM

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

SDM & Site leader

Nov 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · On-site

SDM at Amazon India, architecting and implementing highly scalable systems using Native AWS services to drive WW retail consumable business initiatives. Established and mentored a high-performing SDE team, fostering innovation and ownership while developing core retail capabilities across the worldwide consumables tech stack.
Skilled in cross-functional collaboration with diverse stakeholders, from senior management to product & applied scientists, ensuring effective delivery of strategic initiatives.

AWS servicescross-functional collaborationteam managementCloud ComputingTeam Leadership

Cisco

3 roles

Engineering Leader, Software Engineering

Nov 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs · Bangalore · On-site

Built a strong 35 member team from scratch (after Cisco acquired springpath) to deliver various features for Cloud Managed Service, NG cluster lifecycle management, Workflow Orchestration via Cisco Intersight, Licensing, Security & UI/UX for Cisco HyperFlex product line.
Played a strategic role on New platform bring-up with HCI software, Edge Computing Initiatives & been part of SoftwareOnly HCI strategy to enable HyperFlex and grow our market share.

Cloud Managed ServiceHCI softwareEdge ComputingSoftware DevelopmentTeam Management

Manager II - Software Development Manager

Promoted

May 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Led 20-member team for complete end-to-end product development of NCS1002 from inception to launch, which is industries first 1Tbs/RU in Data Center Interconnect space. Played as Engineering Manager for the entire platform features from design to complete implementation. Closely worked with Cisco Sales, TME, Account, and Manufacturing & Hardware teams to realize $100+million top line revenue from top Web-OTT customers. Responsibilities includes design-document-code review, stakeholder management, requirement clarifications, scope adjustment etc.
Modern manageability items like Zero Touch provisioning, Open Config, Netconf/Yang models, Analytics with Telemetry Data implemented as part of NCS1K product development.

NCS1002stakeholder managementproduct developmentProduct DevelopmentEngineering Management

Manager I - Software Development Engineering

Mar 2012 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Managed software modules such as System Infra, Distributed Infra, NTP, Security (MacSec & Key management), IPCs and IP core apps in IOS/IOS-XR/Nx-OS platforms.
Work includes feature enhancement of these modules in ASR9K, NCS6K & Nexus 7K products. Also, driven Cisco Security features (CSDL) such as ASLR, BOSC/4arg, xSpace and PSB compliance into IOS-XR products.
Team Size : 10-12

IOS/IOS-XR/Nx-OS platformssecurity featuresSoftware Development

Tellabs

Manager Engineering

Apr 2011 – Feb 2012 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Hired to Manage Smartcore 9100 product family in terms of development, sustenance and field support activities. This platform can serve as WiMAX ASN-GW, HA & LTE SGPW (or) ePDG nodes. Involved in requirement gathering, writing functional specification and implementation of S2b interface (over GTP) and R6/R3/R4 WiMAX interfaces.
Developed few in-house tools to validate our protocol stack implementation.
Team Size : 15+

WiMAX ASN-GWLTE SGPWTelecommunications Engineering

Larsen & toubro infotech

3 roles

Sr Manager - Technical Project solutions

Jul 2010 – Apr 2011 · 9 mos

Business solution to medium / large telecom product and partner companies. Primarily on LTE core gateway and RAN side.
Initial proposal making, defining statement & scope of work, project schedule, monitoring & controlling methods for various telecom projects.

LTE core gatewayRAN sideTelecommunications Engineering

Technical Manager

Jul 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

Main mandate was to manage, design and develop a LTE EPC Network elements, which is being used by our Tier1 customer to test their LTE EPC & E-UTRAN NE's.
Lead a strong technical team to develop protocol stacks and simulators as per LTE 3GPP specification. In-depth implementation knowledge on S1AP/NAS and GTPv1/v2 protocol stack.
Team Size : 15+

LTE EPC Network elementsprotocol stacksTelecommunications Engineering

Project Leader

Oct 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

My role was to manage the design, implementation and integration of various software modules in the control plane of WiMAX Base station vendor. Software module primarily include R6 Control Plane, Overload management and Qos configuration of the WiMAX BTS.
Team size : 12

WiMAX Base stationcontrol planeTelecommunications Engineering

Sasken

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2003 – Oct 2006 · 3 yrs 1 mo

As an engineer I got the opportunity to implement, fix critical bugs, test and interact with my end customers. I worked along with a bigger team from V13 to V17 release of Maintenance & feature enhancement support on Tier1 GSM/GPRS Base station vendor.
Worked on Call Processing, Traffic management software, RLC/Abis layer of the BTS and gone through the complete life cycle of a feature addition into the base-station product. Our end customer include TMO, BSNL Verizon etc.,

GSM/GPRS Base stationTraffic management softwareTelecommunications Engineering