Surjit Lahiri

• Established and lead Semiconductor Manufacturing, Cloud, Data Storage and Testing Services practices and scaled these business into multimillion $ accounts such as Analog Devices, Applied Materials, Lam Research, Veeco, Ismeca, Eugenus, KLA Tencor, NetApp, Seagate and others over time
• Conceptualized, solution architected and led implementation of Minimal Viable Products/Solution Accelerators for clients to create practice assets ,produce measurable business value, help in service demand creation and drive non linear revenue growth
• Minimal Viable Products/Productized Solutions building experience summary:

IoT/Industry 4.0:
Ignite Smart Building Retrofit Solution, Automated Meter reading, Video Analytics based Smart Parking Solution, Predictive Maintenance Solution for Induction Motors, Predictive Maintenance Solution for Semiconductor Vacuum pumps with IBM Maximo integration, Digital Twin of Semiconductor Vacuum pump for load testing of high-speed pump monitoring enterprise application, IoT Device Management, BLE Beacon based real time indoor asset tracking system, Smart wrist watch based shop floor operator productivity and factory OEE improvement solution .
Cloud & Big Data:
Build, Verify and Test Appliance Framework for Enterprise apps, Camera feed simulation framework for testing city scale smart parking app with thousands of virtual camera feeds, Azure Cloud Native CIM application framework for Semiconductor FABs, Hadoop data lake based Telco Call Detail Record (CDR) search and retrieval solution, Workstation Analytics solution for tracking employee productivity enterprise wide, Automated Sales ppt builder based on BDM input keywords
Data Storage:
Storage Test Automation platform fully integrated with required tools, AI based log analysis tool to triage failure scenarios, Kubernetes Container Storage Interface Driver, Cloud Data Management Interface(CDMI) reference solution

Semiconductor Manufacturing:
SECS/GEM and EDA Fab communications protocol stack, Factory Automation Test Harness Tool, Automated Testing Framework for testing complex GUI displays, SECS/GEM to Modbus convertor, low code/graphical semiconductor equipment hardware simulator, SEMI E-95 GUI widgets, VGA interceptor based Real time process data screen grabber ,extraction and reporting utility for legacy Semiconductor Equipment, Centralized Recipe Server, Deep Learning based automated component defect inspection, Automated Recipe Tuning Solution for Semiconductor R&D Fabs.

• Led major Semiconductor Fab client to successfully transition/re-develop their Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) applications used during production to Azure as Cloud Native solution. This has been deployed across their four Fabs worldwide after addressing customer specific concerns (related to security, operating costs, performance and resiliency) via series of prior proof of concept projects
• Was instrumental for Mindteck win Smart Cities India - Bhopal Citywide Smart Parking Multimillion $ RFP by demoing and later deploying innovative video analytics based smart parking solution citywide
• Pioneered conceptualization and building of low code/graphical software simulators for semiconductor capital equipment to enable offshoring of software development work for semiconductor capital equipment software

• Seeded Novellus Inc India( now Lam Research) office in Bangalore and hired software engineers for team expansion
• Managed global execution of Semiconductor Manufacturing capital equipment product software development projects , managed costs and monitored performance.
• Provided onsite software support to end customer semiconductor wafer fabrication plants.

• Led software development projects related to semiconductor manufacturing and industrial automation
• Reduced risk and coordinated project specifications to meet safety and industry specific compliances.

• Worked on Level 0/1/2 industrial automation PLC and SCADA projects focused on metals and material handling industries, steel rolling mills automation

• Worked on industrial process instrumentation control projects
• Traveled to job sites with senior personnel to aid in inspections and ongoing project observations.
• Participated in site visits, helping to survey ongoing and planned installations and retrofits.