Balaji Thangavelu
Industry Principal at Infosys - Network Engineering - Domain Consultant - AI for Networks, Autonomous Networks
- Role
- Industry Principal at Infosys
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Balaji Thangavelu
Over 27 years of experience in various roles including Domain Consulting, Program Management, Architect in delivering Solutions/Services for Telecom/Communication Services Provider Industry.+ Domain Consulting for Telco Industry+ Technology leadership in the areas of Autonomous Networks, SDN/NFV, SD-WAN, Telco Cloud, Kubernetes, SRE, Network analytics and OSS Service assurance.+ Innovation and Incubation of New Services offering.+ Technology Strategy, Roadmap, CTO Conversation, IP Creation, PoC, Product evaluation, Test strategy, Pre-sales and consultative selling.+ Technical Program ManagementFunctional and Technology Consulting - Technology adoption strategy, IP Creation, Solution/Product evaluation, ROI/TCO analysis, Solution architecture assessment,+ Technical Program Management, Stakeholder management, Planning, Schedule, Delivery and Risk Management+ Product Management - End-to-end delivery and ownership of Products, Leading Innovation tracks, Incubate IP and manage product delivery+ Network Test automation, Test planning/management for Telco Voice, wireless, data and SDN/NFV+ SDN/NFV - Cloud Management Platform, Network Orchestrator, ONOS, ODL, NFV-MANO, OFDPA+ Platforms- Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Openstack+ UC/Voice, IMS, VoIP and Network Test automation+ 5G Wireless core - Consulting, Product Development, OSS Service Assurance.+ DevOps- JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, GIT, GITHUB, SVN+ Programming - C, C++, Python, GoLang, Ansible, consulting || Network Test automation || Product Management || Technical Program management || Engineering delivery management || Product evaluation ||Solution architecture || Pre-sales || SDN/NFV || 5G|| VoIP/IMS|| Autonmous Networks || GenAI || Agentic AIClient Mobile Operators, Communications Services Providers and Telecom/Datacom OEMs
Experience
Industry Principal
Jan 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Industry Principal for Telco Industry in Network Engineering Services. Focus areas include consulting and architecture services for Autonmous Networks, SDN, NFV, 5G, and OSS technology areas.
Education
VMKV Engg College, Salem,TN,India
BE, Computer Science and Engineering.
1993 — 1997
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
MS, Software Systems
2005 — 2007
Skills
- Ip
- Lte
- Onos
- Dpdk
- Network Function Virtualization
- C
- Mysql
- Requirements Analysis
- Technology Consulting
- Cloud Computing
- 3gpp
- Dhcp
- Php
- Use Case Analysis
- Cisco Aci/Apic
- Software Defined Networking
- Java
- Network Analytics
- Telecommunications
- Switches
- Testing
- Voip
- Gsm
- Openstack
- Cloud Management Platform
- Wireless Networking
- Sdn/Nfv
- Test Automation
- Vmware Nsx
- Openflow
- Pre-Sales
- Wireless
- Software Project Management
- Etsi Mano
- Umts
- Sdlc
- C++
- Solution Architecture
- Gprs
- Wlan
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