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Abitha Seshan

Abitha Seshan

Senior Director
Bengaluru

Summary

Inspiring Engineering and R&D Leader with 27 years of experience, open to leadership and Sr management positions |Global Engineering Leader |Product Development and QA |DevOps| Program Management |People Management |Operations Management |Diversity Lead

Dynamic Director oversees every facet of product development with strong project management, decision-making, technical skills.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

SR Director, Platform Engineering

Subex
08.2023 - Current

Leading HyperSense product of Subex which is Rule based Big Data Analytics product for Telcos for Fraud management and Revenue Assurance.

  • 10 customers accepted product in last 2 quarters and are live. Delivered 30 roadmap features which resulted in revenue generation.
  • Moved team from Waterfall model to Agile, which resulted in quick releases following DevOps culture. Upgraded to Java 21 and about 15+ open sources to their latest versions without impacting feature roadmap.
  • Architected solutions for militarized zone deployment, migrating from OnPrem to cloud services, API framework for external 3rd party integration, real time telemetry solution for ETL, analytics dashboards, Storage management with miniIO, Azure blob storage. Azure and GCP support for the product.
  • Championed continuous improvement initiatives to drive operational excellence within organization through CI/CD.
  • Drove strategic improvements to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies

SR Director, Software Engineering

Ribbon Communications
10.2021 - 06.2023
  • R&D lead for SDN controller and network management solutions based on Micro Services architecture for IP Optical devices.
  • POCs for Tier 1 customers as part of pre-sales activities.
  • Stake holder management with 3rd party IP optical devices for integration of controller.
  • Championed Agile methodology for entire company.
  • Developed strong relationships with key industry partners, fostering collaboration and mutual growth opportunities
  • Enhanced internal communication channels, resulting in improved information flow and decision-making processes

Sr Director, Software Engineering

CommScope
10.2018 - 09.2021
  • Responsible for formulating and executing Network automation and orchestration practice's strategy.
  • Won 5M USD of business for Orchestration practise.
  • Defined services model for execution of projects with customers.
  • Built Orchestration product from scratch for end to end management of DOCSIS and PON devices of CommScope using open sources. Actively contributed for LNF projects.
  • Directed design and execution of business transformation initiatives to drive performance, profit optimization and growth opportunities

Sr. Engineering Manager

Motorola Mobility
10.2006 - 09.2018

Led the IP Video and Multi-Screen Content Delivery product R&D team.

  • Since product required 10+ 3rd party integration across various work steps for delivery of content, architected workflows, integration and managed relationship with customers and 3rd parties.
  • Continuous engagement for 10 years with Tier 1 customers in US for supporting product.
  • Launched new product lines successfully by overseeing the entire development lifecycle from concept through production release for Content Management and Delivery

Project Manager

Philips
10.2003 - 07.2006
  • Managed teams across multi-Sites (6) to develop, integrate & test end to end software stack for DVD recorders.
  • Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments

Senior Design Engineer

Matsushita Communications Industrial Ltd., (Panasonic)
10.2001 - 04.2003
  • Managed release of Panasonic GD 67 mobile phone, WAP 2 development & testing by requirements management, scoping with operators like Orange.

Senior Technical Leader

Philips Software Center
06.1997 - 03.2001
  • Managed system design architecture, UIS development, Sub system integration, development & linked of Protocol P50 for II generation DVD players
  • Mentored junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth

Sr. Software Engineer

Premium Logic Systems
07.1995 - 06.1997
  • Implemented and tested L1, L2 Cache for high performing read and write to Juke Box CDs. Complete memory and storage management using data structures like B-Tree algorithms on embedded device.

Education

Master of Science - Master of Computer Applications

Alagappa University
Karaikudi, India
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Bharathidasan University
04.2001 -

Skills

C, C, Java, MicroServices

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Leadership Experience

  • Successfully led 100 size team in Motorola and CommScope
  • Led the pre-sales activities and won business of about 5M USD for customers like Telstra, BT
  • Led the Diversity council in Motorola and introduced policy changes across the site
  • Called role model by many of the engineers in the team

Training

  • Leadership, Strategy certification and training from XLRI seekers per week to help people with best practices to land their dream jobs
  • Bullet Proof Manager Training on 24 management modules / skills, Crestcom, USA
  • Training on GSM

Timeline

SR Director, Platform Engineering

Subex
08.2023 - Current

SR Director, Software Engineering

Ribbon Communications
10.2021 - 06.2023

Sr Director, Software Engineering

CommScope
10.2018 - 09.2021

Sr. Engineering Manager

Motorola Mobility
10.2006 - 09.2018

Project Manager

Philips
10.2003 - 07.2006

Senior Design Engineer

Matsushita Communications Industrial Ltd., (Panasonic)
10.2001 - 04.2003

Master of Science - Master of Computer Applications

Alagappa University
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Bharathidasan University
04.2001 -

Senior Technical Leader

Philips Software Center
06.1997 - 03.2001

Sr. Software Engineer

Premium Logic Systems
07.1995 - 06.1997
Abitha SeshanSenior Director