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title: "Dinesh Mittal - Senior Director & Head of Infrastructure Platform Engineering in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Dinesh Mittal on Tal

## Headline

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

## AI stack

claude code

claude

lovable

notebooklm

notion

opencode

## 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

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