Jagannath Reddy S
Bangalore
Summary
Innovative Software Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience at Nokia, starting my career within the organization and building deep expertise in MantaRay-based Network Management capabilities, a key strength that empowers me to contribute effectively to Autonomous Networks evolution. Skilled in leading multiple teams, delivering secure, scalable, and cloud-native distributed systems. Expert in Security Management, Identity and Access Management, product security (DFSEC/NESAS, SCAS), AI/ML adoption, and cloud-native transformation. Experience working across sites and cultures of all key Nokia R&D sites. On site experience of working in Portugal, Greece and Germany for short stints. Experience of delivering customer demos for Bell Canada and Vodacom South Africa. Participation in a technical workshop in Helsinki for Web CIQ. Experience in handling Capgemini and Harman for sub-contracting topics.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineering Manager (Functional Area Lead)
Nokia
01.2019 - Current
- Leading 40 engineers (20 solid, 20 dotted).
- Accountable for Security Management functional area and cloud-native transformation.
- Driving architectural decisions, IAM evolution, DFSEC compliance, and AI/ML adoption.
- Built technically competent and collaborative teams, leading from the front, rewarding excellence, challenging goals with Perform to Win and differentiating with pay for performance and constructive feedback mechanism.
- Delivered Network Element Access (NEAC) APIs for AT&T, system wide impacting token-based authentication and SAML for TMO-US and secret management feature for CaaS BTI.
- Delivered complete revamp of the certificate management in MantaRay NM with three key features (PKI CA server, certificate revocation and On-demand cert rotation) for Elisa and Orange France.
- Played an instrumental role in MantaRay NM getting Global Security Compliance Recognition with the Security audit and GSMA certification for NESAS process audit and SCAS product evaluation.
- Effectively managed the maintenance of existing Security Management functionalities with Capgemini for the last 4 years.
- Delivered NEAC and User Management UI renewal with Harman team.
- Led the turnaround of Security FA Leadership team with the Quality turnaround, improved feature commitment accuracy and the better predictability of the deliverables.
Value Stream Leader (Program Manager)
Nokia
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Led Network 360, Customer Input Questionnaire and O&M Value Streams.
- Delivered major releases including Network 360 16.8 SP558, Validation Toolkit portfolio, and O&M Agents.
R&D Specialist
Nokia
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Drove Performance Manager Flash→HTML5 migration and contributed to all Network 360 releases.
- Strengthened engineering quality, onboarding, and customer interactions.
Senior Software Developer
Nokia
01.2011 - 01.2016
- Delivered on building a new product, Network 360 from scratch (innovation idea to a product that reached 10 global customers).
- Delivered KPI flows, automation suites, CI stabilization, and NetAct integrations.
Software Developer
Nokia
01.2007 - 01.2011
- Worked on EMS/Element Manager integrations using TMF 614 and contributed to NetManager components.
- Deep exposure to Network management fundamentals.
Education
Bachelor of technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering
Coimbatore01-2007
Skills
- Leadership & Management
- Technical Leadership
- Network Management
- Security Management
- FCAPS
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
- Distributed systems
- DFSEC
- Java
- Spring
- Go
- RESTful Webservices
- Cloud native transformation
- CI/CD
- DFMEA
- RCA EDA
- O&M agents
- Network 360
- Web CIQ
- NetManager
- Leading 40 engineers
- Mentoring
- Multi-site delivery
- Subcontract management
- Agile/SAFe execution
- System integration
- Performance optimization
Certification
- Successfully Graduated from the Nokia Leadership Academy
- Certified SAFe Agilist
- PMP trained
- DFSec Orange belt
Personal Information
Employee ID: 61286493
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager (Functional Area Lead)
Nokia
01.2019 - Current
Value Stream Leader (Program Manager)
Nokia
01.2018 - 01.2019
R&D Specialist
Nokia
01.2016 - 01.2018
Senior Software Developer
Nokia
01.2011 - 01.2016
Software Developer
Nokia
01.2007 - 01.2011
Bachelor of technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Amrita School of Engineering