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title: "Narayana Pai - Professor of Practice in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Narayana Pai, Independent consultant, Technology/ Business development, 4G/5G Core/ Telecom, Routing/ Switching, Cloud based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes ChatGPT."
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# Narayana Pai on Tal

## Headline

Independent consultant, Technology/ Business development, 4G/5G Core/ Telecom, Routing/ Switching, Cloud

## About

Highly accomplished technologist with 30 years of experience in multiple aspects of product and technology development\. Fine balance of people leadership and technology leadership with good business acumen\. Proven thought leadership and innovative thinking\. Experience in building and developing high performing team for end\-to\-end software development for large product organizations\. Experience in leading large, diverse teams across geographies\. Strategic thinking, defining product strategies and roadmaps aligned to organizational vision and strategy\. Deep understanding of 4G/5G mobile packet core technology, Broadband Network Gateway, Routing and switching\. Experience in architecting and developing highly available distributed applications in various technology domains\. Deep understanding of Service\-based Architecture and Cloud native technologies \(Docker/ Kubernetes\)\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Professor of Practice at National Institute of Technology Calicut, Jan 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, Remote

Senior Product Architect at Tejas Networks, Oct 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Independent Consultant at Self\-Employed, Sep 2022 \- Oct 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at Wipro Limited, Feb 2018 \- Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Chief Technology Architect at Wipro Limited, Feb 2018 \- Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Principal Engineer at Ericsson, Oct 2013 \- Feb 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore, Area Product Owner \- broadband network gateway \(BNG\)

Principal Engineer Systems & Tech at Ericsson, Oct 2013 \- Feb 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Principal Engineer Systems & Technology Responsible for end\-to\-end product roadmap for Ericsson Broadband Network Gateway products \- physical \(R80xx, R8801\) and virtual \(vBNG\)\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Computer Engineering, National institute of technology Calicut

PGDM, International Business, TASMAC

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