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title: "Vikram Barate - Engineering Head - India in Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area | Tal"
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# Vikram Barate on Tal

## 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

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