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Co-founder Neosmith AI | Engineering and Product Leader | Software | AI | Infrastructure and Platform Engineering

About

Technology and Engineering Leader with 25+ years of experience in large-scale Platform & Systems Software; building & leading global teams My professional & leadership journey is well-known for building new competencies with start-up mindset and grow businesses. • Built and led Wi-Fi System Integration, Verification, Validation and Certification teams for CSR’s Wireless Connectivity chipsets for Mobile, Automotive and other business verticals and delivered multi-generational Connectivity Chipsets. • Built and led large scale DevOps and Infrastructure Engineering, Automation Frameworks, AI/ML solutions for Engineering, Telemetry-Diagnostics-Analytics solutions for Intel’s Modem business delivering to Apple (4 iPhone generations, iWatch) and Intel Edge & Network Platforms & SW Products. I have a strong track record to bring Engineering excellence, innovative approaches to problem solving, continuous learning and improvement • Architected, built and led System and SW Engineering Workflows, CI/CD, Automations, tools & infrastructure to scale from 3 platforms/year to 10+ platforms/year in Intel • Led large scale Engineering Workflows & Methodologies transformation project in Intel to modernize and harmonize engineering processes, tools for >2000 engineers spread across multiple groups • Leading Gen-AI & ML assisted Co-pilot Assistant Solutions for SW Development, Validation, Debugging, DevOps and infrastructure engineering & operations I am highly experienced and passionate about building high performing global teams with customer orientation • built, grew & led large global, diverse teams of 100+ direct reports (and 100+ contract workers) spread across India, Europe, US, East Asia regions. • Led development and scaling of infrastructure operations, validation labs spread across >10 sites, >10K systems/platforms • Established matured processes, metrics to support DevOps and infrastructure engineering - Fully automated DevSecOps with CI/CD pipelines, remote operations of infrastructure systems with 0/1-touch provisioning & application deployments, Unified services support system with live metrics and telemetry dashboards, SLAs compliance

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

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Work experience

Senior Director & Head of Infrastructure Platform Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, May 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Director of Engineering at Krutrim, Mar 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Head for Krutrim's Cloud Platform Services Engineering. Built both General Purpose and AI cloud services for public and enterprise customers

Senior Director SW Engineering - DevOps and Platform Infrastructure Engineering Group Leader at Intel Corporation, Oct 2016 - Mar 2024 · 7 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Have been building large scale & efficient Silicon/HW/SW Platforms Engineering Workflows, Methodologies, Practices & leading SW Systems Engineering functions of Integration, Validation Automation, Reference Applications, Tools, Infrastructure, Labs, Observability & Debug Solutions, DevOps/CI/CD for multiple Intel groups (Cellular Wireless platforms, IoT Platforms, Network & Edge Platforms and Solutions) enabling range of customers from Apple to 100s of OEM/ODMs/SI customers/partners. Key contributions and accomplishments:  End to End Engineering Workflow, Practices & Engine to be able to deliver weekly fully qualified platform releases and enabling 15+ simultaneous multi-generational platforms and product lines  Large scale CI/CD, Tests Automation framework, tools, solutions; increasing test automation rate from <20% to >80%; >100K test execution/day, auto-triage of 1000s of test failures & defects reported/day  Development and Test labs infrastructure spread across >10 sites, >10K systems enabled with fully remote operations with 0/1-touch provisioning, telemetry, dashboards  Gen-AI & ML assisted Co-pilot Solutions for SW Development, Validation, Debugging, DevOps and infrastructure engineering & operations  Established matured processes to support internal engineering teams & scaled infrastructure - Unified Services ticket Support system for all framework, tools, solutions, infrastructure with live dashboards, SLAs compliance, keeping >99% uptime availability

Senior Engineering Manager at Intel Corporation, Aug 2013 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Led Intel’s Wireless Connectivity Innovation, Cellular-Wi-Fi Offload and Interworking solutions for Intel wireless & Android based mobile products portfolio. Key contributions and accomplishments were:  Led SW planning, program management, development, integration to Intel’s Wireless and Android mobile platforms  Led early design, development of technology, Successful trials and IOTs for advanced Cellular Wi-Fi features (Wi-Fi Calling, LTE-WiFi Aggregation) with key NW/Operator partners (Verizon, Ericsson, Nokia, AT&T), W-Fi Alliance Passpoint 2.0

Senior Engineering Manager at CSR, Jan 2010 - Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos, On-site, Built and Led Wi-Fi System Integration, Verification, Validation and Certification teams for CSR’s BT-Wi-Fi Connectivity chipsets. Key contributions and accomplishments were:  Established Software Integration & validation strategies including branching strategy, mainline content & release planning, merge quality criteria, nightly smoke testing strategies  Pioneered and led the idea, design, development for abstraction components & Applications to be able to integrate, test Wi-Fi SW for different functionalities, different environments, and re-use test content and automation easily across variants and generation of Wi-Fi platforms  Established test automation framework for System Integration, validation, certification testing.  Established scaled & cost-effective Labs & Infrastructure (including bespoke anechoic rooms, chambers) for Wi-Fi verification, validation, pre-certification

Technical Architect at CSR, Aug 2007 - Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore, Led Windows CE/Mobile BSP, Device Drivers & Bluetooth Host Software Development for CSR’s ARM based Development and Example Mobile platforms. Key contributions and accomplishments  Led BSP development, bring-up of application processor, Integration of Cellular as well as BT-Wi-Fi connectivity baseband platform & SW stack with application processor  Architect, Design, Development to replace Windows Mobile Native BT Host Stack with CSR’s proprietary BT Host Stack

Technical Lead at CSR, Jun 2001 - Aug 2007 · 6 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore,  Design and development of RRC, MAC, L1 Control protocol stack layers and features  Led the design and development of abstraction SW & SDK to be able to integrate wireless stack on different RTOS and Baseband platform  Written & worked with standards team for number of 3GPP CRs  Led the GCF and IOTs of 3GPP features with Network vendors & operators  Supported customers with technical trainings, onboarding, integration and technical issues  Wrote RRC chapter in book “WCDMA - Requirements and Practical Design” (ISBN 9780470861776) to share practical knowledge & experience of implementation of 3G standards specifications

Education

B.E., Electronics and Communcation, Punjab Engineering College