Sanjivan Kumar
Founder & CEO - BizBuzzz™
Bengaluru,Karnataka
Summary
Innovative multidisciplinary Founder & CEO. 20+ years of experience as Competent Engineer and Product Specialist.
Built next generation Business App's Technology Platform - "App's As A Service".
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Founder & CEO
BizBuzzz™
Bengaluru, Karnataka
09.2016 - Current
- At this stage of business pivot, shifted and directed all energies toward product, engineering, sales and pricing model on emerging opportunities
- Automated "BizApp Suite" Creation - BizApp Factory Tool
- As a solo founder, mostly involved in almost every goal of BizBuzzz. Personally addressed a range of problems to keep the company on track. Applied rule of learn and do it !
- Directed and implemented technological improvements and new features for reducing business bottlenecks
- Interviewed, supervised and motivated 40+ staff members to achieve optimal productivity
- Launched BizApp Store in 4 cities and acquired 1200+ partners
Lead Engineer
Symantec
Mountain View, California
03.2014 - 08.2016
- Built POC for Obfuscate Source Code project with security specialists team
- Built POC for Windows Phone "MDM enterprise application"
- Lead Android enterprise application for MDM and BYOD for releases in USA and Europe.
Principal Software Engineer
Barracuda
Campbell, California
08.2012 - 03.2014
- Lead a team of 4 engineers for developing MDM and Safe Browser applications for Android
- Collaborate with product and server engineering team members to define and develop new product concepts
- Created proof-of-concept prototype applications for demonstration and evaluation purposes for Android and iOS
Sr. Software Engineer
InnoPath Software
Sunnyvale, California
07.2008 - 08.2012
- Architected and implemented Mobile Update and ActiveCare Mobile applications for Android devices. Mobile Update became the major revenue generator for client business by fetching contracts from LG,PanTech,Sony and Intel
- Designed screens for the application, for improved look and feel and better user experience Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggested options for performance improvement of UX
- Designed and implemented Download Agent, DM protocol as per OMA specifications for Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows Phone.
- Designed and implemented utility to view logs on device, which helped for troubleshooting the client-server protocol and other issues
Sr. Software Engineer
jArchitects - Microsoft Seattle
Chicago, Illinois
01.2008 - 07.2008
- Prepared test setup for Windows Mobile for Microsoft's DRM framework
- Troubleshooted and fixed issues in the code written by others
- Implemented and executed test cases
Sr. Software Engineer - I
Infineon Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2006 - 01.2008
- Designed and implemented MIME encoder and decoder for IMS framework for successful completion of IOT
- Designed and implemented UI and application for IMS framework, used for demo the IMS solution on Windows Mobile devices
- Improved the design for interaction of application with IMS framework, which reduced the number of calls to Achieve IMS operations
Project Leader
L & T Infotech
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2006 - 05.2006
- Lead team of 8 engineers and Allocate assignments based on technical skills
- Assist project manager in planning, controlling and monitoring the project
- Provide technical guidance to the team members
Sr. Software Engineer
Jataayu Software
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2003 - 01.2006
- Designed and developed key components and features for MMS application launched on Samsung and Motorola Devices in Europe and USA
- Troubleshooted and resolved MMS application issues escalated from customer during infield IOT in Europe and in Verizon Labs USA, with a 100% success rate
- Designed and implemented thin interface layer between core and MMS application, which reduce the number of calls to achieve MMS operations
Software Developer
PDISL
Chandigarh, Punjab
03.2000 - 03.2003
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality. Programmed EEPROM modules using Keil Compiler and C
- Used a wide variety of techniques and tools in the development and unit testing of software
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Karnatak University, Dharwad
STJIT , Ranebennur 09.1994 - 10.1998
Skills
Engineering - Hands on experience with Mobile App Development, Spring Boot, GCP, Shell Scripting, Firebase Products, Modern frameworks and languages
Product Development and Design - Developed and Designed E2E products for OEM's, E-Commerce, Mobile Ads, B2C, B2B, AaaS
Product Innovation Specialist - Shipped breakthrough technology innovations for Apps As A Service Platform for next generation E-Commerce
Project Planning and Development - Played crucial role for planning and development of products for achieving business goals
Team Management - Forming, developing, coaching and empowering distributed teams to maximize organization performance
Accomplishments
- Built vision oriented company BizBuzzz™ - App's As A Service Platform
- 40K+ transactions done, 10 active subscriptions accounts
- Empowered delivery executive to created his own successful startup - Pazaki
- 50+ paid beta partners using BizApp's Technology
- Bounced back many times during startup journey and COVID challenge
- Raised funds . Achieved revenue stage, With minimal resources and budget
- Achieved success in building impactful products for OEM's LG,Samsung,Motorola, Sony, PanTech etc.. on diverse Mobile platforms Android,Windows Mobile, iOS and BlackBerry
Timeline
Founder & CEO
BizBuzzz™
09.2016 - Current
Lead Engineer
Symantec
03.2014 - 08.2016
Principal Software Engineer
Barracuda
08.2012 - 03.2014
Sr. Software Engineer
InnoPath Software
07.2008 - 08.2012
Sr. Software Engineer
jArchitects - Microsoft Seattle
01.2008 - 07.2008
Sr. Software Engineer - I
Infineon Technologies
07.2006 - 01.2008
Project Leader
L & T Infotech
01.2006 - 05.2006
Sr. Software Engineer
Jataayu Software
07.2003 - 01.2006
Software Developer
PDISL
03.2000 - 03.2003
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Karnatak University, Dharwad
09.1994 - 10.1998