Mandeep Singh

About Mandeep Singh

I am a growth-oriented Product Leader with 25+ years of experience transforming complex telecommunications and infrastructure portfolios into high-margin, software-defined ecosystems. I specialize in identifying market \"white space\" and architecting the shift from legacy hardware to Cloud-Native and Agentic AI platforms that drive 18%+ YoY growth.Currently, I am leading the global rollout of Agentic Service Assurance at Mavenir. My focus is the commercialization of our \"AI Fabric\" roadmap, where I have successfully agentized customer operational workflows—eliminating the friction of manual intervention and replacing it with autonomous, self-healing service assurance.Executive Value & ImpactBusiness Transformation & Growth: Directed the pivot of a $380M hardware-appliance portfolio into a software-defined (NFV) leader. Identified and captured a $110M+ annual revenue opportunity in the Tier-2 market by launching a turnkey COTS and Cloud OS suite.Operational Excellence & P&L Impact: Partnered with Finance to normalize global infrastructure SKUs and set multi-year OKRs, reducing BOM complexity and securing $10M+ in annual operational savings.Strategic Silicon & Cloud Neutrality: Spearheaded the transition to ARM-based architectures and AWS Graviton; engineered \"Cloud-Neutral\" strategies that eliminate vendor lock-in and maximize workload portability across hybrid environments.Executive Thought Partner: Serve as a core advisor to the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) on long-term technology bets and the strategic sequencing of partnerships with NVIDIA, AWS, and Dell.Core CompetenciesAgentic AI: Transitioning global networks from reactive maintenance to frictionless, autonomous operations.Portfolio Governance: Successfully launched 45+ product lines with a focus on automation and 30% reduction in integration costs.Ecosystem Leadership: Deep experience managing multi-vendor alliances across RedHat, Azure, Cisco, and VMWare to deliver carrier-grade reliability.I build intelligent, future-ready infrastructure that doesn\'t just keep up with the market—it defines it.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Product Management

   Mavenir

   Jan 2018 — Present · Richardson, TX, US

   Agentic AI & Strategy: Defining the \"AI Fabric\" roadmap, integrating high-performance networking with GPU-optimized infrastructure to enable autonomous service assurance for global networks. Core thought partner to the CSO on long-term tech bets and strategic partnerships with NVIDIA, AWS, and Dell.Business Transformation: Directed the pivot of a $380M hardware portfolio into a software-defined, Cloud-Native (NFV) leader, achieving 18% YoY growth. Identified a $110M+ annual revenue opportunity in Tier-2 markets via a turnkey COTS and Cloud OS suite.Silicon & Cloud Neutrality: Spearheaded transitions to ARM-based architectures and AWS Graviton; developed \"Cloud-Neutral\" strategies to mitigate vendor lock-in and optimize workload portability.Operations & Efficiency: Partnered with Finance to set multi-year OKRs and normalize global infrastructure SKUs, reducing BOM complexity and securing $10M+ in annual operational savings.Product Leadership: Lead a PM group enabling cloud integration for 5G/4G RAN/Core/NTN (CNFs/VNFs) across OpenStack and hyperscalers. Product Owner for Mavenir SMO (Configuration, Observability, Analytics, 3GPP NFMF), supporting O-RAN interfaces and slice management.Ecosystem Management: Drive engineering, supply chain, and sales ops teams with a focus on customer-centric traceability. Manage strategic alliances with Dell, RedHat, AWS, Azure, Arista, Cisco, and VMWare.Technical Scope: Telco cloud OAM, SDN infrastructure, Smart NICs, Kubernetes/OpenStack, Telecom CI/CD, Service Mesh, and observability/analytics frameworks.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  PGAIML, Artificial Intelligence

• Punjabi University

  B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

• The University of Texas at Austin

  PG Gen AI, Generative AI

Skills

• Unified Communications
• Tcp/Ip
• Test Driven Development
• Continuous Integration
• Sbc
• Software Development
• Sip
• C# 4.0
• Agile Methodologies
• Sdn
• Software Design
• Valgrind
• Ip
• Gnu Debugger
• Android Sdk
• Ipsec
• C++
• Strategic Partnerships
• C
• Gtp
• Enterprise Software
• Pki
• Ikev2
• Snmp
• Competitive Analysis
• Windows Services
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Databases
• Ims-Alg
• Cloud Computing
• 3gpp
• Wcf Services
• Java
• Linux
• Product Marketing
• P-Cscf
• Session Initiation Protocol (Sip)
• Vmware
• Wifi
• Telecommunications