Senior Product manager with 12 years of successful experience in designing and shipping solutions for large scale networks. Recognized as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff by Bell Labs for innovative contributions through patents in the security domain. Strengths in SaaS and Cybersecurity backed by training in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Overview
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years of post-secondary education
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years of professional experience
Work History
PRODUCT MANAGER 4 & DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF
Nokia
Chennai, India, Tamil Nadu
04.2017 - Current
Managing 3 APAC customer programs with a revenue of 0.5 Million Euros through the features that shipped in 2020.
Filed a patent in 2020 for using Natural Language Processing in large scale network management and reduce development time by 50%.
Increased security features of the legacy product by 15% to meet evolving threats.
Guest Speaker on network security in the Broadband forum in September 2019 in Milan, Italy
Managing the backlog of 4 different teams consisting of 30 engineers.
Defended Nokia in the Cybersecurity audit by 2 government agencies in Asia and Europe.
Writing product security alerts for to customers of 2 products with mitigation plan and workarounds.
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST
Alcatel-Lucent
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
02.2009 - 03.2017
Joined as a Trainee Software Engineer and grew 4 levels into a Technical Specialist in 8 years.
Design, develop and maintain the IoT device management module for the Smart Home ONT products.
Design and implement the inter-entity communication for a multi-core network switch.
Designed the software application to double the available access rights for a machine-to-machine interface.
Scrum Master of a team of 10 engineers to facilitate the review, break-down and estimation of the user stories.
Peer review of the software developed by team members ensuring compliance to secure coding guidelines.
Collaborated with 3 third party vendors for on-time readiness of an integrated solution demonstrated in the Mobile World Congress.
Designed and implemented the unit test framework for the smart home product and achieved 100% code and branch coverage.
Reduced the image packaging time by more than 90% in 3 months.
Improved the management interface response for a multi-core command line interface by reducing the response time by 60%.
Rolled out the complete SCM procedure for 2 variants of the smart home product in 3 months.
Mentored 3 new team members to become successful contributors in 6 months.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering
SSN College Of Engineering, Anna University
Chennai
08.2004 - 04.2008
MBA - Human Resources
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Chennai
01.2010 - 12.2011
Skills
SDN & NFV
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Accomplishments
Three Top Inventor Awards for patent applications filed on behalf of Nokia (https://patents.google.com/?inventor=sowrirajan+padmanabhan).
Fixed Networks Quality award in 2014 for preventive measures to improve code quality.