Sumit Bhatkar
Head of Security Engineering | Leadership
- Role
- Head of Security Engineering at Mobileum
- Location
- Mumbai, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sumit Bhatkar
20+ yrs of strong Experience in Leading, Mentoring, and managing teams across multiple geographies Achievements : • In 2024 – As Head of Engineering, transformed Security Engineering BU in efficient, innovation focused unit. Reducing support efforts from 40% to less than 10% in one year • In 2022 - Built a new product (PCEF) as greenhouse project. Working demo with real handset was done in 20 days and production-grade product delivered in 3 months • In 2020 - Successfully scaled probing product to support 10 times load in one year (from 1gbps to 10gbps). • In 2015 - Setup Korea Telecom account team from 10 members in scoping stage to 150+ members • In 2013 - Completed XL Axiata and Axis merger project two weeks ahead of schedule with “ZERO Defects” in UAT and post production. It was applauded as “No Pain” delivery from customer. It included migration of ~14 million active subscribers without any service interruption.Leadership : • Ability to groom team to perform at highest levels of motivation and job satisfaction • Enabling stakeholders to achieve Business goals, Faster TTM and Better ROI • Working with customers as trusted partner to understand business pain points and deliver optimal solutions • Proud custodian of highly efficient, scalable and robust products which are deployed in 500+ telecom operators in world • Lead diversified teams of 50+ from China, Indonesia, Israel, Cyprus, South Korea, Bristol, Portuguese and India • Interacted with customer’s executive management to instill confidence and revived projects in difficult conditions from red to green statusTechnical Expertise : • Expert in design & architecture of systems, planning, budgeting, program management, people management. • Managed end-to-end development of product including testing, scalability, security, high availability & support. • Worked on different programming languages and technologies. Strong in backend development systems but also managed front end, data pipelines, ML and analytics products. • Lead containerization of using Kubernetes. Worked on AWS, OpenShift, SQL / NoSQL Databases, caching and other related technologies. • Expertise in fast path packet processing, smart NIC with deep understanding of technologies like SR-IOV, DPDK etc.
Experience
Head of Security Engineering
Dec 2022 — Present
Lead business unit of Security Engineering.Build and expand products like Firewall for Signalling, SMS, 5G, and SEPP
Education
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel College Of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology
2000 — 2004
Utkarsh Manadir, Malad
SSC
1988 — 1998
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