Santanu Sanyal
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VP Engineering and Managing Director, India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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VP Engineering and Managing Director, IndiaJuniper SquareJul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)- BVice President Engineering and Site Head, BlueJeans IndiaBlueJeans Network acquired by Verizon inMay 2017 - Jun 2024 (7 years 2 months)
- Vice President TechnologyStayzillaDec 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 3 months)Led a team of roughly 40 engineers in a mid-stage start-up working on an accommodation aggregation platform connecting Guests and Hosts on website, msite and mobile App.
Reorganized the team into POD structures to create focused units working towards clear business goals (with representation from other functions such as Marketing, Operations, Supply etc). Team reported better sense of ownership and commitment as a result of restructuring.
Introduced a pipeline for daily deployment to inject a sense of speed and result-orientation within the Engineering team.
Collaborated with business to identify Engineering staffing needs and drove recruitment, Training and retention. Created a small QA & Automation team to - Sr. Director, EngineeringRadisys acquired Continuous Computing in JulyApr 2012 - Dec 2015 (3 years 9 months)Led a team of 160+ engineers to deliver on a profitable business of $8-9M annual revenue, building product solutions for Tier-1 and 2 telecom customers. Was executing 15-20 mid-and-large-sized projects in tandem at any point of time.
Also built the Technical Pre-Sales organization that would elicit system requirements from customers, estimate, negotiate on efforts and timelines as well as provide inputs to Product-line Management and Sales teams for deal closure.
Took over the Quality Group responsible laying down standardized processes across multiple business units in the organization and ensuring compliance. Focus was on keeping the processes lightweight and measuring compliance and effectiveness based on metrics da - Director, Engineering (Professional Services)Radisys acquired Continuous Computing in JulyNov 2008 - Mar 2012 (3 years 5 months)Seeded the Professional Services (PS) Practice within Continuous Computing organization, to monetize adhoc customization requests on the product from Tier-1/Tier-2 customers for specific solution needs.
Put in place processes and key metrics to measure timeliness and quality of delivery as well as proactive hooks to forecast schedule and efforts overrun of PS projects.
With growth in business, constituted a small Program Management Office (PMO), tasked to coordinate across the Product Management, Sales, Hardware and Software teams distributed across the globe (US, China, India), ensure customer satisfaction and grow the account.
In addition to PS, took up the 3G Wireless Product-line and turned it profitable - Engineering ManagerRadisys acquired Continuous Computing in JulyJan 2007 - Nov 2008 (1 year 11 months)Responsible for developing, upgrading and maintaining the world-renowned SS7/SIGTRAN and 2G/2.5G Wireless protocol stacks of Trillium. SS7-SIGTRAN was the largest-revenue-grossing product-line for the organization for many years in a row.
Also, undertook implementation of custom needs for Tier-1 and Tier-2 TEMs (Telecom Equipment Manufacturers) across the globe to deliver solutions adapted to geographies, networks etc. - Project ManagerRadisys acquired Continuous Computing in JulyDec 2005 - Dec 2006 (1 year 1 month)Led the team responsible for SS7, SIGTRAN product-line of Continuous Computing (CCPU). Activities included development of new protocol stacks (in the SIGTRAN domain), maintenance and version upgrades for SS7 and Legacy software and world-wide customer support.
- ITechnical ManagerIntelliNet TechnologiesJun 2000 - Dec 2005 (5 years 7 months)Based out of Florida, USA, IntelliNet Technologies was one of the fastest growing providers of application development software and value-added services for telecom networks.
In IntelliNet US, was part of the core team building a Telecom Application Development Platform (Accelero) that would present a set of transport-independent, platform-independent Engines to rapidly develop an SS7, SIGTRAN, IN (Intelligent Networks) or Wireless (GSM/GPRS) Application.
In September 2002, returned to India with 5 other colleagues from Intellinet US, and opened IntelliNet India office in Bangalore. Was the senior-most technical member of the team that started with 6 members and grew to 40 by 2005-end.
In IntelliNet India, w - Coordinating EngineerCentre for Development of Telematics CDOTJan 1995 - Jan 2000 (5 years 1 month)C-DOT is a premier Telecom Research and Development Institution of Govt.of India. It has been engaged in design and development of indigenous Digital Switching Systems.
Was a part of Call-processing team in CDOT, responsible for multiple feature developments around routing, conferencing, caller line identification (CLI) etc. Was part of the team that built the Wireless Mobile Switching Center (MSC).
Was part of the Engineering task force for testing, supporting, debugging and commissioning the largest CDOT exchange (MAX-XL) at Indiranagar, Bangalore. Gained valuable hands-on experience regarding working of a fully functional digital exchange.
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- St. Lawrence High SchoolSt Lawrence high school
- Executive General Management ProgramIndian Institute of Management BangaloreJan 2007 - Jan 2008 (1 year 1 month)
- Bachelor of Electronics & Telecommunication EngineeringJadavpur UniversityJan 1991 - Jan 1995 (4 years 1 month)