Vivek Kakkar

About Vivek Kakkar

A corporate leader with a startup intrapreneurship mindset. Technologist and Engineering Leader of billion-dollar organizations and innovative solutions. Defines and promotes a fast-paced culture of excellence among cross-functional and global teams to align innovation backlog to the vision. Experienced engineering leader focusing on the breadth of ecosystem integrations comprising hardware devices, mobile applications, and SaaS cloud-native software services infrastructure. Deliver product value during times of competitive uncertainty and changing customer behaviors. An Innovative strategist with a breadth of engineering experience in delivering successful outcomes.Notable Achievements and Impacts:Defined Agile process to parallelize innovation discovery and production execution to afford velocity and innovative readiness. Ideated and delivered innovative wearable, room/desk Device Solutions & SaaS Application Services with synergistic user experiences. Products include Cisco Premium BT HS730 launch and Microsoft Surface Earbuds, Cisco Webex Share and Webex Desk, and Microsoft Surface laptops. Established processes and relationships to make Vendor collaboration effective and efficient (SOC maturity, Manufacturing, Contract development).Led strategy, discovery, and execution of Webex collaboration to grow business to $2B in revenue. Core Business Skills:Extensive technology knowledge and a hands-on leaderCore technology vision alignmentCross-functional Agility & backlog refinementManagement skills (Influencer)People coaching and mentoringCraftsmanship / Quality Management / Analytics based Continuous ImprovementHigh-performance team buildingAgile, Scrum and Kanban Development, Program ManagementTechnical experience and breadth:Embedded HW bring-up – (ARM: DSPG, NXP, TI & QCC), SecureBoot.DevOps: GitHub actions, Jenkins, CI/CD, Test automation, Junit, Cunit, Docker, host test simulation: TestNG, Pytest, QEMU/Linux on IaaS.Open-source platform/SW: Linux, Android, OpenSSL, OpenMAX, V4L2, ALSA, Glibc, Python, GTK/QT, WebKit, Apache.HW blocks in the solution: CPU, GPU (rendering), DSP (Video/Media), RF modules, power modules, peripherals, Camera, MIC, speakers, and cradle.SW blocks: Video/Audio/Rendering pipeline, Security, RF/BT, Analytics, calling/meeting, Discovery - Voice AI assistant tech: ASR, Text to speech, NLP; Decision Trees with Python/Sklearn.Web/Mobile app development: Android/IOS, Flutter, JS/React, Web admin portal.SaaS: Serverless, API GW, Graph + NO-SQL DB, AWS logs/Pinpoint, AWS Cognito, SNS, IAM, Firebase.

Experience

1. Leader, Director, Adaptive Computing

   AMD

   May 2023 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Leading architecture, design, and development of the overall System software, applications, and AI solutions platform for AMD\'s adaptive SOCs and FPGAs computing portfolio. Management Leadership in building System software solutions developed for performance and scalability.

Education

• Barkatullah University, Bhopal

  BE - Bachelor of Engineering (BS), Computer Science

• North Carolina State University

  MS - Masters of Science, Computer Science

Skills

• Embedded Software
• Stakeholder Management
• Authentication Protocols
• Agile Values
• Security Technologies
• Encryption Software
• Android Development
• Unified Communications
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Telecommunications
• Embedded Systems
• Telepresence
• Project Management
• Technical Leadership
• People Management
• Wireless
• Sip
• Integration
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Qt Creator
• Release Management
• Process Improvement
• Video
• Devops
• Telephony
• Qos
• Ip
• Ajax Application Framework
• C++
• Fips
• Real-Time Embedded Platforms
• Agile Methodologies
• Security
• Management
• Fips 140-2
• Platforms