Girish Pujar

20 years of RAN experience | Open RAN | 5G Leader | 5G CORE| Large-Scale Delivery | TPM | Cloud-Native Networks| People Leadership

Role
Engineering Manager at Nokia
Location
Bengaluru, KA, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Girish Pujar

Senior Engineering Leader with 20+ years in telecom systems, driving large-scale 4G/5G RAN and ORAN platform deliveries for Tier-1 operators. Proven track record in leading multi-release gNodeB programs, improving system capacity and performance, and building cross-functional global teams (20–30 engineers).Expertise in:3GPP L2/L3 stack (MAC, RLC, PDCP)SA/NSA deploymentsFDD/TDD implementationsReal-time traffic processing at scaleRelease orchestration across CU/DU architecturesEngineering governance and defect reduction frameworksRecognized for:Stabilizing complex RAN programsImproving release quality and predictabilityAligning architecture, system test, and field feedback loopsDriving accountability across multi-geo teams

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager

    Nokia

    Jun 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

  • PES University

    Master of Technology - MTech, Data science and Machine learning

  • Karnatak University

    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

  • Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

    Post graduate diploma in project management, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

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