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# prabhu V R on Tal

## Headline

Senior Manager @ SmartHub\.ai \| Cameras, Embedded Software

## About

Engineering leader with over 18 years of experience building high\-performing teams across the IoT, SaaS, and security domains\. I specialize in driving end\-to\-end software delivery, from architecture and security threat modeling to high\-scale performance engineering and CI/CD optimization\. With a proven track record of scaling automation, reducing technical debt, and implementing AI\-driven workflows, I excel at translating complex technical requirements into executable roadmaps that deliver significant business value and improved production quality\.

## Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

## AI stack

claude code

claude

n8n

## Work experience

Senior Manager at SmartHub\.ai, Dec 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Engineering manager Platforms and Automation at Numentica LLC, May 2023 \- Nov 2023 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Engineering manager Sdet at Wasoko, May 2022 \- May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Manager Sdet at Newfold Digital, Sep 2020 \- May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Manager Performance and Scale at VMware, Sep 2018 \- Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Managing 5 members’ teams, responsible for delivering the product on SAAS and On\-prem releases\. Responsible for Delivering, Managing Quality releases for Pulse IOT Platform and Client which works on different hardware architectures\. Responsibility includes: \* Recruit, mentor and lead a team of high motivated QA and SDET engineers\. \* Benchmarking Microservices and map them to recommended infra workload to make sure no service degradation occurs with releases\. \* Goal setting, providing direction and coming up with effective metrics to ensure smoother ,timely delivery\. \* Overseeing technical scoping and design of projects to ensure that projects is timely delivered, reduces technical debt, generate values for customers and upstreaming quality with each deliverable\. \* Managing day\-to\-day management tasks not limited to performance reviews, managing time off, project tracking and financial appraisals\. \* Working closely with senior management to identify risks, solve problems, and course correct when deviations occur\. \* Providing senior management and business teams with weekly updates on testing progress, automation summaries, and release readiness\. \* evangelising the new testing approaches and continuously exploring avenues to counter upcoming Design challenges \* Create quality strategy for business and ensuring QA roadmap for growth and improvement required in eco\-systems\.

## Education

Master of Science \(M\.Sc\.\), Applied Sciences\- Computer Technology, Periyar University

## Profile highlights

The best product I’ve worked on…: I have created vulnerability based package repos that r working products to provide a test data for vulnerability code scanner to analyse test results

what i've built with AI: Built a stock analyser based on a rule based algo with derivative data

I'm the person in every team who…: Was part of troubleshooting with sre team folks to get to rca and fix the issues on the fly

What's hard for others but easy for me…: Analyse system design bottle necka to scale the product to 10 x capacity for a customer using performance fixes in integration env

My hot take about working with AI is…: Pilot to production and model evals r key to success in ai metrics \.

My biggest achievement in college was…: I got a8\.9 cgpa working from a tier 2 college \. Was part of the placement committee and organised lot of start up talks from founders \.

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