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Kalpana K

5G RAN Development - Engineering Leader

Bengaluru

19+ years of work experience

Dell Technologies
Feb 20224 yrs 7 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dell RAN Products Development
Radisys Corporation
Mar 20193 yrsFeb 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

❖ Outdoor Small Cell 5G NR gNB Solution. (Dec 2020 – Feb 2022) - Project Summary: This project is E2E development and deployment of Outdoor Small Cell Software Stack for Reliance Jio using the Radisys Trillium 5G NR gNB solution in the Standalone (SA) deployment mode. This includes development of various features such as Re-establishment, HO (XN and Inter RAT), Call Trace, IPv6 Support, KPIs and Alarms, Process Monitoring, System Monitoring, Software Upgrade, across L2, L3, Platform, OAM, EMS, Scaling and Performance requirements, integration, and testing, delivery, field testing and support along with deployment. This project involves a team of 100+ team members working towards development, feature enhancements, validation, deployment and maintenance. ❖ Custom development of 4G and 5G projects/programs for telecom customer organizations who provide products and solutions to Tier 1 organizations and OEMs. (Mar 2019 – Nov 2020) - Projects and their Summaries: • 5G - Design, development, testing and integration of Airspan’s features on Radisys 5GNR RAN Solution. Enabling 5G-NR SA E2E setup with DPDK with VM based setup, Docker based setup. Integration of Airspan’s frameworks for Logging, CLI, Database, Process Manager. • LTE - Development and sustenance for existing and new features in Airspan 4G Indoor & Outdoor small cell solutions. Feature development included UE Capability Enquiry, Airspan KPIs – 256QAM, CSFB, Multi RAT Target for CSFB, Initial Timing Advance, Trap Mitigation, Configurable File Export • Celona CBSD Solution on QCOM-995. Design, Development, Testing and Integration of Celona CBRS LTE Solution Features. • Facebook’s Magma EPC solution. Product Enhancements – design development and validation of features such as CSFB (Circuit Switch Fall Back), Multiple PDN/bearers support, VoLTE, OAI and support
Radisys Corporation
Aug 20126 yrs 8 mosMar 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

❖ Custom development of 4G and 5G projects (Oct 2017 – Mar 2019) - Projects and their Summaries: • Development of 5G NR NSA gNB for Spirent. Development and Integration of an E2E 5G NR NSA gNB for sub6Ghz with Option 3a. • Development of 4G eNodeB, UE Simulator for Lockheed Martin. Development/Sustenance of HA in TeNB with Multicell. Development of LTE UE Simulator supporting GMR2-4G. ❖ Custom development for solutions in Data Center for a Tier 1 OEM customer, Verizon. (Aug 2016 to Oct 2017) ❖ E2E development of a patented DSA (Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage) 4G solution primarily for monetization of under-utilized spectrum of public safety networks. (Sep 2012 - Aug 2016) o E2E design, development and testing with a team of 55 people at a peak during the development of various releases
Aricent
May 20075 yrs 3 mosJul 2012

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Femto BRRM Software. (Jan 2010 – Jul 2012) - Handled development of various features like Femto start-up procedure in AT&T's network, Layer 1 Interface to BroadCom chipset (software Licensing), Extended Range Cell, 3G Macro to Femto HO for CS and PS calls, 32 user capacity on V2 Enterprise & Metro cell, Optimized paging for large small cells deployment, UL interference management, Automatic Carrier Selection, Extra Large ACL size for Femto Groups, Inter-Femto Group Handover, Femto to Macro CS and PS HO, End-toEnd Call/Subscriber Trace, IuH enhancements (Support of Private extensions), Assisted GPS, Key performance indicators, Active-Warm Standby - Contributed for Requirement Analysis, Effort estimations, Planning, Tracking, Quality Management, Technical document and code reviews, Customer management, people management, staffing and resourcing - Delivery management with a team of 30 people • CRNC CallP Software (Jul 2008 – Dec 2009) - Contributed and led design and development of various features like 656 Bit PDU Size Management for High E-DCH Data Rate, Multiple PDP Contexts, Globalization of Power Control Enhancements. - Sustenance of RNC CallP Software • Layer1 MCU Software on TI Handsets (May 2007 – Jan 2008) - Contributed and led design and development of feature “Power Reduction for DRX2” - Sustenance of the Layer1 MCU software - involves solving and fixing critical GSM and GPRS related issues.
20007 yrs2007

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Layer1 2G and 2.5G Controller S/W of GSM BTS. (Feb 2003 – Apr 2007) Various GSM and GPRS feature enhancements. Sustenance of the Layer1 Controller software. • WinTools – Windows Application for testing 2G and 2.5G Layer1 Software of GSM BTS (May 2000 – Feb 2003) Design and development of various features for GSM and GPRS

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Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Masters, Software Systems

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Florence High School

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Headline

5G RAN Development - Engineering Leader

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

Work experience

Senior Manager - Software Engineering at Dell Technologies, Feb 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Dell RAN Products Development

Senior Manager - Development Engineering at Radisys Corporation, Mar 2019 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ❖ Outdoor Small Cell 5G NR gNB Solution. (Dec 2020 – Feb 2022) - Project Summary: This project is E2E development and deployment of Outdoor Small Cell Software Stack for Reliance Jio using the Radisys Trillium 5G NR gNB solution in the Standalone (SA) deployment mode. This includes development of various features such as Re-establishment, HO (XN and Inter RAT), Call Trace, IPv6 Support, KPIs and Alarms, Process Monitoring, System Monitoring, Software Upgrade, across L2, L3, Platform, OAM, EMS, Scaling and Performance requirements, integration, and testing, delivery, field testing and support along with deployment. This project involves a team of 100+ team members working towards development, feature enhancements, validation, deployment and maintenance. ❖ Custom development of 4G and 5G projects/programs for telecom customer organizations who provide products and solutions to Tier 1 organizations and OEMs. (Mar 2019 – Nov 2020) - Projects and their Summaries: • 5G - Design, development, testing and integration of Airspan’s features on Radisys 5GNR RAN Solution. Enabling 5G-NR SA E2E setup with DPDK with VM based setup, Docker based setup. Integration of Airspan’s frameworks for Logging, CLI, Database, Process Manager. • LTE - Development and sustenance for existing and new features in Airspan 4G Indoor & Outdoor small cell solutions. Feature development included UE Capability Enquiry, Airspan KPIs – 256QAM, CSFB, Multi RAT Target for CSFB, Initial Timing Advance, Trap Mitigation, Configurable File Export • Celona CBSD Solution on QCOM-995. Design, Development, Testing and Integration of Celona CBRS LTE Solution Features. • Facebook’s Magma EPC solution. Product Enhancements – design development and validation of features such as CSFB (Circuit Switch Fall Back), Multiple PDN/bearers support, VoLTE, OAI and support

Senior Manager - Development Engineering at Radisys Corporation, Aug 2012 - Mar 2019 · 6 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ❖ Custom development of 4G and 5G projects (Oct 2017 – Mar 2019) - Projects and their Summaries: • Development of 5G NR NSA gNB for Spirent. Development and Integration of an E2E 5G NR NSA gNB for sub6Ghz with Option 3a. • Development of 4G eNodeB, UE Simulator for Lockheed Martin. Development/Sustenance of HA in TeNB with Multicell. Development of LTE UE Simulator supporting GMR2-4G. ❖ Custom development for solutions in Data Center for a Tier 1 OEM customer, Verizon. (Aug 2016 to Oct 2017) ❖ E2E development of a patented DSA (Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage) 4G solution primarily for monetization of under-utilized spectrum of public safety networks. (Sep 2012 - Aug 2016) o E2E design, development and testing with a team of 55 people at a peak during the development of various releases

Engineering Project Manager at Aricent, May 2007 - Jul 2012 · 5 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Femto BRRM Software. (Jan 2010 – Jul 2012) - Handled development of various features like Femto start-up procedure in AT&T's network, Layer 1 Interface to BroadCom chipset (software Licensing), Extended Range Cell, 3G Macro to Femto HO for CS and PS calls, 32 user capacity on V2 Enterprise & Metro cell, Optimized paging for large small cells deployment, UL interference management, Automatic Carrier Selection, Extra Large ACL size for Femto Groups, Inter-Femto Group Handover, Femto to Macro CS and PS HO, End-toEnd Call/Subscriber Trace, IuH enhancements (Support of Private extensions), Assisted GPS, Key performance indicators, Active-Warm Standby - Contributed for Requirement Analysis, Effort estimations, Planning, Tracking, Quality Management, Technical document and code reviews, Customer management, people management, staffing and resourcing - Delivery management with a team of 30 people • CRNC CallP Software (Jul 2008 – Dec 2009) - Contributed and led design and development of various features like 656 Bit PDU Size Management for High E-DCH Data Rate, Multiple PDP Contexts, Globalization of Power Control Enhancements. - Sustenance of RNC CallP Software • Layer1 MCU Software on TI Handsets (May 2007 – Jan 2008) - Contributed and led design and development of feature “Power Reduction for DRX2” - Sustenance of the Layer1 MCU software - involves solving and fixing critical GSM and GPRS related issues.

Lead Engineer at Sasken Communication Technologies Limited, 2000 - 2007 · 7 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Layer1 2G and 2.5G Controller S/W of GSM BTS. (Feb 2003 – Apr 2007) Various GSM and GPRS feature enhancements. Sustenance of the Layer1 Controller software. • WinTools – Windows Application for testing 2G and 2.5G Layer1 Software of GSM BTS (May 2000 – Feb 2003) Design and development of various features for GSM and GPRS

Education

Masters, Software Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Florence High School