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Vikram Barate

Deep-tech AI startup. Niche domain. Great team -​> Great product.

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

13+ years of work experience

Stealth Mode Startup
Jun 20262 mosPresent

Pune City

Deep-tech AI startup.
Neurealm
Apr 20251 yr 4 mosJul 2026

Pune District

From Definition to Incubation to Actualization: - Software Dark Factory. - Transitioning services business to FDE model. - Services FDE program design. Built a batch of FDE through rigorous yet well planned program. • Spearheaded the incubation of innovative business models and accelerators at Neurealm, focusing on AI and emerging technologies. - Architecting NeuGAIN accelerator. • Developed and implemented engineering methodologies, transitioning from traditional SDLC to AI-SDLC. - Spec-driven, agentic to Claude-way(agent-skills). • Devised a structured way to engineer the AI Agents - Agent Development Life Cycle. - From Agent experience to Agent operations (AX->AO). • Established AI practice, AI research, go-to-market strategies for both existing and new engineering avenues. • Business AI. Agent engineering & operations. • AI Governance & Security. Adoption metrics. • FDE business model aligned for Business AI adoption and operationalization.
GS Lab
Jul 20242 yrs 1 moJul 2026

Pune District

Handling niche domain business P&L, strategy, delivery, engineering, leadership build-up, offerings, GTM, and presales. 4G. 5G. O-RAN. MEC. SD-WAN. SASE. Firewall. UTM. Routers/Switches. AP. IMS. UC/CC. Network management & Analytics. Ground up engineering of the core Telecom components MME, SGW/PGW, CUPS, HSS, ePDG(IPSec based). GCP and AWS deployments of the telecom-core. Led open-source contributions to Linux Foundation (ONF Aether), open source 4G and 5G core; Played role in the open source maintainer group and technical steering committee at ONF(LF). Incubation of CTO office. Telecom unit. Security unit. Asset driven business: 5G Security eBook - https://gavstech.com/whitepaper/a-comprehensive-guide-on-security-coverage-of-5g/ Octopus - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/octopus/. 5G-in-a-box - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/5g-in-a-box/ 5G Lab - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/epc-5g/ Open source contribution - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/#opensource-contributions. https://opennetworking.org/aether/ Denoiser - https://gavstech.com/industries/hi-tech-software/communications/multimedia/ Sentiment Analysis. vKYC. DTMF Automation. Representation of organizational thought leadership in the global forums, conferences and events - ONF. GSMA. TMForum. CAMARA. 3GPP.
GS Lab
Apr 20204 yrs 6 mosSep 2024

Pune, Maharashtra

GS Lab
Jul 20172 yrs 10 mosApr 2020

Pune Area, India

Quick Heal
Aug 20152 yrsJul 2017

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Product engineering from incubation to GA/production - "Quick Heal home network security". Refers to products and features that protect your entire home network from cyber threats, as a secure Wi-Fi gateway, with software features like the Wi-Fi Scanner, monitoring and securing all connected devices, from PCs and phones to smart appliances like TVs and cameras. Incubation of the product from CTO's one-liner thought process to ideation, architecting, team building and production GA. Parental control. DNSSEC. Netfilters. IPS/IDS. ULR Categorization. Intrusion protection. IoT security. Security zones. Form factor design. Firmware decisions and design. Production process. RMA process.
Persistent Systems
Nov 20122 yrs 9 mosJul 2015

Pune

• End to end product engineering for security IP Camera startup. • Hardware selection, firmware engineering, AWS cloud hosting of the servers, QA, Automation & L2/L3 customer support. • Tunnel between cloud and camera: Remote config management and provisioning, stream, alarms, and monitoring. • Security features - TLS certification, Password generation, AES-128 based encryption for tunnel and designed proprietary handshake mechanism, Firmware code signing procedure. • Special RTP/RTSP stream to store and play the audio/video designed to optimize the recording storage.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Senior Management Program(SMP)

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

20211 yr2022
Savitribai Phule Pune University

Masters of Computer Science, Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University

19965 yrs2001

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Headline

Deep-tech AI startup. Niche domain. Great team -​> Great product.

Location

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Work experience

Engineering Head - India at Stealth Mode Startup, Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Pune City, Deep-tech AI startup.

VP Engineering at Neurealm (GSLab|GAVS) - Neural Labs | AI Practice | ER&D | Leadership Role at Neurealm, Apr 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune District, From Definition to Incubation to Actualization: - Software Dark Factory. - Transitioning services business to FDE model. - Services FDE program design. Built a batch of FDE through rigorous yet well planned program. • Spearheaded the incubation of innovative business models and accelerators at Neurealm, focusing on AI and emerging technologies. - Architecting NeuGAIN accelerator. • Developed and implemented engineering methodologies, transitioning from traditional SDLC to AI-SDLC. - Spec-driven, agentic to Claude-way(agent-skills). • Devised a structured way to engineer the AI Agents - Agent Development Life Cycle. - From Agent experience to Agent operations (AX->AO). • Established AI practice, AI research, go-to-market strategies for both existing and new engineering avenues. • Business AI. Agent engineering & operations. • AI Governance & Security. Adoption metrics. • FDE business model aligned for Business AI adoption and operationalization.

VP of Engineering - Networking | Telecom | Security | Neurealm Labs | ER&D | Leadership Role at GS Lab, Jul 2024 - Jul 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Pune District, Handling niche domain business P&L, strategy, delivery, engineering, leadership build-up, offerings, GTM, and presales. 4G. 5G. O-RAN. MEC. SD-WAN. SASE. Firewall. UTM. Routers/Switches. AP. IMS. UC/CC. Network management & Analytics. Ground up engineering of the core Telecom components MME, SGW/PGW, CUPS, HSS, ePDG(IPSec based). GCP and AWS deployments of the telecom-core. Led open-source contributions to Linux Foundation (ONF Aether), open source 4G and 5G core; Played role in the open source maintainer group and technical steering committee at ONF(LF). Incubation of CTO office. Telecom unit. Security unit. Asset driven business: 5G Security eBook - https://gavstech.com/whitepaper/a-comprehensive-guide-on-security-coverage-of-5g/ Octopus - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/octopus/. 5G-in-a-box - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/5g-in-a-box/ 5G Lab - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/epc-5g/ Open source contribution - https://gavstech.com/industries/telecom/#opensource-contributions. https://opennetworking.org/aether/ Denoiser - https://gavstech.com/industries/hi-tech-software/communications/multimedia/ Sentiment Analysis. vKYC. DTMF Automation. Representation of organizational thought leadership in the global forums, conferences and events - ONF. GSMA. TMForum. CAMARA. 3GPP.

Director Of Engineering at GS Lab, Apr 2020 - Sep 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Pune, Maharashtra

Technical Manager at GS Lab, Jul 2017 - Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Pune Area, India

Project Manager, Development at Quick Heal, Aug 2015 - Jul 2017 · 2 yrs, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Product engineering from incubation to GA/production - "Quick Heal home network security". Refers to products and features that protect your entire home network from cyber threats, as a secure Wi-Fi gateway, with software features like the Wi-Fi Scanner, monitoring and securing all connected devices, from PCs and phones to smart appliances like TVs and cameras. Incubation of the product from CTO's one-liner thought process to ideation, architecting, team building and production GA. Parental control. DNSSEC. Netfilters. IPS/IDS. ULR Categorization. Intrusion protection. IoT security. Security zones. Form factor design. Firmware decisions and design. Production process. RMA process.

Senior Technical Analyst at Persistent Systems, Nov 2012 - Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Pune, • End to end product engineering for security IP Camera startup. • Hardware selection, firmware engineering, AWS cloud hosting of the servers, QA, Automation & L2/L3 customer support. • Tunnel between cloud and camera: Remote config management and provisioning, stream, alarms, and monitoring. • Security features - TLS certification, Password generation, AES-128 based encryption for tunnel and designed proprietary handshake mechanism, Firmware code signing procedure. • Special RTP/RTSP stream to store and play the audio/video designed to optimize the recording storage.

Education

Senior Management Program(SMP), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Masters of Computer Science, Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University