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Nithin CK
Release Chief Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced Release Chief Engineer with over 10+ years of experience in Telecom Industry. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Diligent, meticulous telecommunications professional. Skilled analytical person in problem solving and project management.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Release Chief Engineer
Nokia Networks
Bangalore
04.2021 - Current
- Achieved planning, delivering, and tracking all feature development of Flexi Platform (FP) project.
- Functioning as primary point-of-contact with full responsibility and accountability for project deliverables and performance per scope in relation to customers and applications.
- With added responsibility as System Architect for Flexi Platform project, indulging in feature design and e2e system architecture.
- Orchestrating the “CI Infrastructure Upgrade” activity as Program Manager, starting from impact analysis, alternate solutions, design & architecture, milestone planning along with Statement of Work (SoW) and Request for Proposal (RFP).
- Represents Flexi Platform in various Innovation, Standardization (MN Phoenix3F Program) and Customer outage forums.
Technical Leader
Nokia Networks
Bangalore
07.2020 - 03.2021
- Orchestrated intern's project as SW architect on O-RAN. This included ramping up intern's on FHGW product and addressing their technical challenges in development.
- Mentored junior team members, providing educational expertise on technical concepts and RAN Evolution in Telecom.
- Implemented multiple features related to State Management, SW upgrade, Snapshot Collection, Configuration Management domains in Fronthaul Gateway (FHGW) and managed Jira issues for these domains.
- Active participation in CFAM requirements and architectural discussions.
- As senior member, supported team in handling blocker issues in FP.
- Being level-2 manager, led team in manager's absence and helped manager in team building activities.
Engineer Software Development
Nokia Networks
Bangalore
08.2015 - 06.2020
- Contributed to, Nokia’s standalone 5G product Fronthaul Gateway (FHGW).
- Independently implemented Snapshot/Log collection framework for FHGW and contributed to SW upgrade features.
- Worked on Nokia’s Radio Cloud Platform (RCP) which is based on microservice architecture and used in Air-scale Radio Network Controller (ASRNC), 5GBTS, Virtualized Distributed Unit (vDU) network elements.
- Attained expertise on security hardening and Cloud Band Application Manager (CBAM) which is VNF Manager for RCP based network elements.
- Addressed more than 300 RCP issues equaling to 50% of issues with real-time response and resolution.
- Worked in DoCoMo customer site, leading telecom service provider in Japan.
- While deployed in DoCoMo site, resolved multiple blocker issues related to CPU stalls due to high memory, SW & eSW upgrade failures, HW management issues etc and thus helping DoCoMo in upgrading their Network Gateway’s (NG).
- Being an end-to-end Flexi Platform (FP) expert participated in customer outage forums and attained knowledge on Telco, Networking & Switching domains.
R&D Engineer
Nokia Networks
Bangalore
07.2011 - 07.2015
- As fresher was part of System Analysis team for Nokia developed Linux based operating system called Flexi Platform (FP).
- Contributed as FP domain specialist for customers and applications. Also provided architectural enhancement for customer driven solution.
- Role involved identifying root cause and validating bugs from customers and applications using FP. Addressed around 40 issues per month.
- Expertise in multiple FP domains like FCAPS, SW & eSW Management, Diagnostics, High Availability, HW management, Linux kernel etc.
- Conducted mass domain trainings for customer care teams, application teams and new joiners.
- With added responsibility as Jira Admin, successfully upgraded Jira with necessary customization. Also, expert in Jira project creation and configurations.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
Malnad College of Engineering
Hassan, Karnataka, India 06.2007 - 06.2011
Skills
Python & Shell Scripting
Communication skills - Written and Verbal
Methodologies - Agile, DFMEA & RCA/EDA, DevOps
Telecom Technology - 2G,3G,4G & 5G RAN
Telecom Domains - FCAPS, High Availability, SW & eSW Upgrade, HW Management & Diagnostics, Snapshot, Security
Project Planning, SoW & RFP
Process Optimization
Managerial Skills - Release, Program & Team
Leadership & Issue Tracking
Containerization & Docker
Accomplishments
- Successful piloting of NG15B at DoCoMo Tokyo site and received reward from customer team for accomplishing this business-critical activity.
- Successful piloting of oMGW16.5 at Vodafone Jodhpur site and oMGW MP4.2 at Bharti Airtel Bihar site .
- As RCE, achieved 100% success rate in feature delivery for the target release.
- Reduced FHGW issue resolution period by 20% by integrating analysis tools. This indeed helped in resource management.
- Represented team in innovation forums and implemented issue handling improvements in Jira.
- Experience on various telecom network elements - mcRNC, oMGW, NG, BGW, ASRNC, 5GBTS, FHGW, vDU.
Software
Jira (Admin)
Git/Gerrit
Microsoft Excel
Work Availability
monday
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Quote
Hope for the Best but Prepare for the Worst.
Nithin CK
Timeline
Release Chief Engineer
Nokia Networks
04.2021 - Current
Technical Leader
Nokia Networks
07.2020 - 03.2021
Engineer Software Development
Nokia Networks
08.2015 - 06.2020
R&D Engineer
Nokia Networks
07.2011 - 07.2015
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
Malnad College of Engineering
06.2007 - 06.2011