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Transforming Telecom: Product Management & Engineering Leadership | Innovation Catalyst with 22+ Yrs Experience

About

Two decades in telecom — the last two spent building Telstra’s engineering capability in India from a standing start to 200+ specialists, and delivering over AUD 10M in savings through insourcing, automation, and operational discipline. I’ve worked across the full arc of wireless, 2G through 5G, in R&D, product, architecture, and operations — at Nokia, Mavenir, Rakuten, and now Telstra. At Rakuten I shaped the roadmap for Rakuten Link, with the ambition of making it Japan’s answer to WeChat. Today I lead Telstra’s Autonomous Networks mission: closed-loop automation and intent-based architecture, building networks that increasingly run themselves. What I do sits between two things that usually stay apart — deep engineering and business strategy. An MBA in Strategy & Disruptive Innovation from ISB sharpened that; running a GCC has tested it. Happy to talk autonomous networks, GCC strategy, or scaling engineering teams that actually ship.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Made in Telstra Engineering at Telstra, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Powering the Made in Telstra movement. The goal is to uphold technical sovereignty and drive key initiatives that contribute to Telstra’s CF30 and NaaP goal.

Autonomous Networks Lead - Global Networks & Technology at Telstra, Feb 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos

Chapter Principal - Global Networks And Technology India at Telstra, Mar 2022 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Head of Product (Rakuten Link) at Rakuten, Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Director, Engineering at redBus, Dec 2019 - Sep 2020 · 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Head of front-end development (Mobile apps, mobile web and desktop)

Senior Director, Engineering at Mavenir, Apr 2019 - Dec 2019 · 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Engineering Director, Mobile app development at Mavenir, Nov 2016 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Leading the Engineering organization responsible for telecom mobile application development and delivery using Agile software development methodology. Responsible for delivering the latest and greatest VoLTE, VoWifi and RCS mobile apps for android and iOS for Tier1 telecommunication carriers. Involved in the design and development of cutting edge telecom solutions that transform the way data is utilized on the phone.

Technical Program Manager at Mavenir, Jul 2013 - Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore, Involved in the design, development and delivery of Digits / MultiID solution which revolutionized the way a number is used in the mobile. This solution included re-crafting various IMS network nodes like CSCF, RCS, TAS etc and also legacy nodes like MMSC and SMSC. A new telecom grade mobile app was also design and developed as part of the solution. Worked directly with the Architects of tier 1 telecom carriers to define requirements, discuss technical issues and roadmap the solution. Daily customer management was also part of the job. Involved in designing of new network elements like mStore (message store) which was based on noSQL technology such as Cassandra and SWIFT. Role also involved planning and implementation of various network elements and tracking of the same. Also worked on VAS products such as SMSC, MMSC and Voicemail. Instrumental in launching the first voicemail solution of the company.

Technical Program Manager, Consulting and Systems Integration ANZ at Nokia Siemens Networks, Nov 2011 - Jul 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos, Melbourne, Australia, Led the network design and implementation up Nokia's 3G and LTE network products such as PCRF, SGSN, GGSN, HLR / HSS, SMSC, etc. Directly worked with Australian tier 1 operators like Telstra and Vodafone to design and implement the solution.

Technical Leadership, Research and Development- NT-HLR and One NDS at Nokia Siemens Networks, Oct 2008 - Nov 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Design and development of HLR and One NDS product suite of Nokia. Pioneered Agile software development and grew to be a scrum master in the team. The roles and Responsibilities included analysis of new requirements received by the customer and charting the functional and design documents. Also chart the effort estimate for the feature end to end. Providing technical assistance and also maintaining the scrum backlogs for tracking

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian School of Business

London Business School