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Mahanth Gouda

Mahanth Gouda

Bengaluru

Summary

With a proven track record at Spanidea Systems Ltd, I excel in transforming product visions into market realities, leveraging skills in Product Management and Market Research. My strategic approach has significantly enhanced user experience and product value, evidenced by successful IoT projects and a 20% performance improvement in software optimization.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Director - Product/Project Management

Spanidea Systems Ltd
Cambridge
05.2022 - Current
  • Manage product roadmaps and effectively prioritize work based on the value to the user aligned with the company’s business goals
  • Work closely with Engineers and Product Designers to deliver new products and features in a pragmatic way whilst following the agile methodology
  • Designed, developed and deployed connectivity (IoT) software for a UPS manufacturing company, added cellular/e-SIM, Wifi & LAN technologies and provided the SaaS application
  • Working on hardware and software development of RISC-V based Raspberry Pi alternative
  • Prepared the specifications for the hardware and software stack
  • Other projects include monitoring Indoor Air Quality & Smart Switch

Self Employed

01.2020 - 04.2022
  • Developed a scalable IoT platform (Cloud agnostic) to solve the problem of connecting any connectivity capable device to our platform, be it for rapid prototyping or for complete service roll out
  • WiFi has been accomplished, Cellular, LoRaWAN and Sigfox were in the pipeline
  • Product management starting from assessing and specifying market requirements for current and future product features by conducting market research based on the inputs provided by the customers and partners
  • Determined the commercial and cost benefits of the various products and services, came up with the pricing models for third party integrators and customers
  • Offers complete end to end IoT solution including hardware design for devices, specific gateways, SaaS applications and market place for hosting third party mobile & web apps

IoT Product Manager

RS Components Ltd
Corby
01.2018 - 12.2019
  • Responsible for the complete IoT product lifecycle, starting with the system product definition, securing necessary approval of the projects, follow development and the launch of products with all the necessary collaterals
  • Worked with our design partners and customers to ensure market requirements are collected and translated correctly into meaningful engineering product requirements
  • Analyze the competitive landscape, industry trends and new markets to help define product and price positioning to have an influence on the SBC & IoT segment
  • Thorough understanding of the impact of pricing on profit margins based on the competition
  • List of a few of the IoT & SBC products, I helped to bring on board: IoT Cloud (Launched an IoT platform that helps the makers and developers to connect, collect, visualize and share the data among friends or communities)
  • This Cloud layer was hosted on Microsoft Azure
  • Raspberry Pi family (The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with over 19 million boards sold globally)
  • In collaboration with ARM, developed Industry’s first Arm Pelion certified board based on the ARM’s Reference design
  • Low Cost Development board based on NXP’s LPC55xx family (The low cost development board provides the ideal platform for evaluation of and development with the LPC55xx MCU based on the Arm Cortex-M33 architecture

Product Management

DevSys Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
01.2016 - 10.2017
  • Conducted in-depth market research on customer use cases and functions to initiate development of new products based on IoT
  • Worked with a 6-member team of development and test engineers to design and deliver solutions starting from prototyping to production devices
  • Managed entire product life cycle, starting from strategic planning, developing customer use cases, converting them to technical requirements, development and testing to deployment
  • Ensured that all the requirements are fully covered and supported with relevant collateral such as documentation, user guides and release notes
  • Created and updated business cases for all new proposals along with the pricing structures
  • List of a few of the IoT products/solutions developed where AWS and Digital Ocean were used: Smart AC Power Saver (Smart device that saves the energy consumption of AC’s by 9 -12%)
  • It’s a smart retrofit device that includes a smart energy meter that sends the data to the cloud
  • This data is used to calculate the savings and future analysis
  • Includes a SaaS based application that benefits the user with all the information/notifications and a configurable dashboard
  • Asset Tracker for Asset Management and personal/pet tracking (Complete end to end solution including the web/mobile app)
  • Battery Monitoring and Management Systems (This solution not only monitors the battery’s working status, but also identifies the battery that needs boaster and kick starts it)
  • Prototyping is completed, production was under planning
  • Remote Video Streaming & Monitoring based on Raspberry PI using Quectel LTE module
  • Applications targeted were for monitoring of the farm animals, construction work carried out in the buildings and interiors works

Technology Consultant for projects based on IoT

07.2014 - 01.2016
  • Design and development of GPS tracking solutions for Itriangle Infotech and EI Info systems
  • Architected and developed Indoor Positioning System using UWB (Ultra Wide Band)
  • For both the above projects, managed a team of 8 engineers

Technical Specialist

ARM Ltd.
Cambridge
11.2006 - 06.2014
  • Developed applications for demonstrating ARM development tools strength and capabilities at various ARM events (ARM TechCon & ARM Partners Meet) and other international events (such as Embedded Systems Conference & Games Developers Conference to name a few)
  • Developed strategies and tactics for marketing and promoting ARM’s software development tools, & hardware boards to our existing and new customers
  • As a part of Channel Partner Program (CPP), developed and delivered trainings to potential customers in collaboration with channel distributors and silicon partners such as ST, NXP & Freescale
  • Hands on experience in creating technical videos highlighting the technology advancements in comparison with our competitors for both academic & professional audiences
  • Developed case studies to show how our technology has solved specific use cases for our key partners and customers
  • Preparing presentations for technical talks at ARM events & other international events to promote brand awareness
  • Resolving customer issues and providing technical support to worldwide customers, internal and distributor FAE’s

Engineer

Tata Elxsi Ltd.
Bangalore
06.2005 - 10.2006
  • Test Suite for Audio Video Media Engine on DAVINCI Platform
  • Identified the test cases based on the functional requirements, created around 2000 test cases
  • Automated 70% of the test cases and tested the rest manually saving lot of time and resources
  • Analyzed & generated the streams (error & error-free streams) using Tektronix tools to test the stability and the performance of the chipset
  • Porting and Optimization of Mpeg4 (SP/ASP) Video Decoder & MP3 Decoder on DM320
  • Optimization using innovative techniques while porting the decoders and achieved 20% better performance in terms of speed
  • Programmed in C, but used assembly language wherever required

Project Engineer

CITL
Bangalore
03.2003 - 05.2005
  • Device Driver development on Linux
  • PIC & ATMEL 8051 micro controller based projects

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - IT

PDA College of Engineering
Gulbarga, Karnataka, India

MBA - Product Leadership

Institute of Product Leadership
Bengaluru

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Product Strategy
  • Market Research
  • User Experience
  • Product Launches and Promotions
  • Customer & Partner meetings
  • Value Proposition
  • Writing meaningful requirement from use cases
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Artificial Intelligence & Deep/Machine Learning
  • Wireless communications
  • Embedded software/firmware
  • Telematics
  • SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
  • Understanding of hardware designs
  • Sensor technologies
  • Microprocessor (ARM Cortex-A series)
  • Microcontroller (ARM Cortex-M series)
  • OS/RTOS (Ubuntu, Android, CMSIS, ARM Mbed OS and FreeRTOS)
  • IDE and debug adapters - DS-5, RVDS, ULINKPro, J-Link & D-STREAM
  • Cloud experience – ARM Pelion, AWS, Digital Ocean and Microsoft Azure
  • Programming languages – C
  • IoT protocols – MQTT & AMQP
  • Wireless technologies include GSM/GPRS, 3G, LTE, GPS, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, BLE & RFID
  • CRM – HubSpot
  • Project management tools/methodologies – JIRA, Agile

Timeline

Director - Product/Project Management

Spanidea Systems Ltd
05.2022 - Current

Self Employed

01.2020 - 04.2022

IoT Product Manager

RS Components Ltd
01.2018 - 12.2019

Product Management

DevSys Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
01.2016 - 10.2017

Technology Consultant for projects based on IoT

07.2014 - 01.2016

Technical Specialist

ARM Ltd.
11.2006 - 06.2014

Engineer

Tata Elxsi Ltd.
06.2005 - 10.2006

Project Engineer

CITL
03.2003 - 05.2005

Bachelor of Engineering - IT

PDA College of Engineering

MBA - Product Leadership

Institute of Product Leadership

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