Sarath Kutathiparambil Satchi
About
•Versatile Electronics & Communication Engineer, 23+ years after graduation with rich experience in embedded systems, networking, security protocols, cryptography, cyber security, telecommunications, submarine cable systems and satellite communication systems. •I am well experienced executive manager in technology area, in creating periodic reports, budgeting, program management, technology management, advisory to CXO, Directors and Billionaires across the globe on negotiations, business strategies, contract managements and acquisitions, reducing complexity, giving feedback's about the ground reality, estimating business continuity and prospects, project roll outs, adapting to fast changing business ethics and business models, with rich hands on experience. •Rich experience in working with international multidisciplinary teams contributing technical expertise across a wide range of technologies and platforms. •Proactive results driven executive manager in technology delivering excellence through effective communication, coordination, planning and execution. •Rich experience in working with various government agencies in India and abroad. •Rich experience in handling projects at national levels and corporate levels •Rich experience in working with industry leaders, billionaires and CXO levels in India and abroad. (Mr R N Tata and Mr Huot Vanthan)
Work Experience
Engineer E1
Reported to Senior General Manager, Operations, administration and maintenance the company’s telecommunication network including deep sea submarine optical fiber networks (SAFE and SEAMEWE3), Intelsat satellite earth stations and high-end routers & switches, telecom equipment’s. Closely working with executive members of organisation including R N Tata.Active contribution in up-gradation of nation’s critical back bones (SAFE cable systems, Satcom systems etc). Managed network operations including traffic engineering, optimization, dimensioning and generation of periodic reports and management of nations mission critical systems. Internal Quality auditor for meeting organizational requirements. Coordination with international carriers and partners. Contract management with various partners. Closely working with executive management of the company. SME in Cyber Security, National Cyber Defence program. Operations management, engineer on duty for large gateway installations.Solid experience in Satcom, TWTA, HPA, LNA and other transmit and receive chains in satellite communications. System modelling. Experience in various bands of microwave engineering. Sound knowledge and experience in Telecom cross connects Switches, Routers, modems, firewalls, IPS/IDS, DNS, DDoS. Cisco devices, Radius, voice gateways, Telecom networks, traffic engineering etc. Satellite systems Intelsat/Inmarsat/Iridium, submarine cable systems (SAFE and SEAMEWE3), Networking/ TCP-IP/MPLS, ATM switches (Alcatel 7270/7470), MPLS, ADM's, DXC, DCME, Higher Order cross connects (Marconi MSH84...etc), RAS, NMS /EMS/BSS/OSS etc, ITMC/IDC/ IPNOC experience, various PDH/SDH systems, VoIP solutions, network planning and optimization. In house software development and embedded projects.
Senior Software Engineer
Reported to the Group Manager and work with a team of specialists in maintaining high value networks & network management systems including development support for backend applications for the Telecom team. Worked as senior engineer for developing solutions for backend of telecom. Worked on Network Security, Oracle DBMS, Clear-case, strong scripting etc.
Specialist Design and Development
Design, development and integration of the Protocols /security layer for a WiMAX base station. Identification of specifications and requirements, design, development, testing and system integration of WiMAX 802.16e security layer, system level profiling, system integration. TTLS / EAP pass through authenticator, RADIUS integration. Worked as individual contributor for EAP client layer, pass through authenticator and generic abstraction layer for multiple methods. Integrated and tested with freeradius. 802.1AE MacSec on FPGA. Design and development of a IKEv2 protocol stack. Design, development and testing of IKEv2 protocol suite in multi-threaded environment. Project was developed as intellectual property with features like crypto acceleration in both software and hardware. Design and development of an AES core on SPARTAN 3A FPGA as per FIPS-197 and which supports all modes as per NIST-SP800-38A specifications. Worked on project for AES hardware accelerator, designed, developed and tested as intellectual property. Role as project lead/ project manager. IPSec Accelerators in FPGA. Prototyping of SoC in FPGA - TranSwitch’s Atlanta 2000 (Centillium). Worked as a contributor for converting the SoC code written for ASIC chain to FPGA, which involved fast prototyping of SoC for Xilinx Virtex family, Project involves bringing up the board, Xtensa diamond core, GMAC, RAM controller etc. Driver drowsiness detection system porting to Xilinx-PPC board. Worked as individual contributor for study of performance figures of DDDS in power PC board. High bandwidth video streaming on PPC python – Lattice FPGA for NIKON. Worked as project contributor and lead for FPGA solution for image streaming. CAN bus, AFDX, Profibus and Ethercat feasibility study for industrial automation and automotive domain for various projects.
IT Expert Engineer
Reported to the Director and Mr Chairman (Mr Huot Vanthan – South East Asian business tycoon), technical management of projects for government agencies like Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications (MPTC), Ministry of Economy & Finance (MEF) and worked for Telcotech the Cambodian member of the Asia American Gateway. Evaluation, customization of a telecom solution platform. The project covered various aspects of network security, software solution evaluation, technical feasibility study, revenue assessment program for all telecom players in the country. Design of data centre, Server deployment and business process identification. Development of organization from scratch. Policy making. Budgeting and contract management. Stratum-0 PRS clock deployment technical analysis and network design of national backbone for entire country of Kingdom of Cambodia. Managed an international team of Managing directors, Vice Presidents, System Architects and Project managers. Tools: Ms Project, Ms Visio, Ms Excel, Redknee Telecom solutions (Billing), Cisco Devices. Worked as consultant for BSS application for Telcotech. Developed a business process solution for paper less and office automation for telecom business. Mapping of the circuits to business process and sales integration, order management etc. Tools: LAMP, bash scripting, C programming, Power Edge Servers.
Independent Consultant
Developed security solution for NS2 WiMAX model, consultancy in RFID for logistics, M2M solutions etc.
Student Internship
On contract during summer internship break as the part of the MSc programme. OpenGL 2.0ES, Nacl, 3dmax SDK, Power VR SDK. - Developed a plug-in for 3dMax studio, ported the gaming objects to Power VR platform and tested. Tested same with NaCl.
Consultant
Working as consultant for various projects related to Industrial automation, Data centre Solutions, networking, telecommunications, embedded systems, Security, Robotics... etc. Active contributor for “aidorobot”. Primarily on vision systems, navigation systems and hardware controller board. Tested and build vision solutions based on OpenCV. Written Navigation framework based on Wi-Fi. Audio processing for sound source localization. Evaluated RGB_IR based depth sensing and advanced vision tracking solutions. Written many test scripts in python, OpenCV, C++, Qt5 for fast prototype developments. Identified strategic partners for Home Automation/Android production versions. Developed a daughter controller board, drivers for the robotic solution which includes servo controllers, sensors for environmental systems and thermal visions. Generated funding of more than a million USD and solution roadmap was designed for the product. Tools: gdb, gcc/g++, Orcad, matlab and python, hardware tools like DMM, signal analysers, making prototype using general PCB's, OpenCV, servo controllers (PWM based), Ms office, Kicad, OrCAD 9 etc.
System Architect
Member of Architecture, Technology and R&D foundation (ATF) group. This is an elite group comprises roughly 200 engineers in numbers at PhD level primarily with in Nokia across the globe, known for addressing architectural challenges in Nokia designs and specifications, I was one among 20+ persons placed at Wroclaw, Poland. Requirement category owner for security. I was responsible for all security related implementations for all products of NOKIA. This is a profile which reports to Global Requirement Portfolio manager (Nokia Corporate Office, Finland) for all products of Nokia. Under portfolio management all product programs run. Every variant and individual products are managed by portfolio management team based on categories. I was sole owner for category security - implementations for all products. Bi weekly review meetings with product managers, product owners and program managers. Educating product owners on security roadmap, vendor selection criteria on hardware security solution selection. Architect role for the 5G systems. Contributions to various architectural documents for 5G. Being in ATF group the team addresses architectural guidance for 5G, the group has published a series of documents called reference architecture and target architecture documents which addresses reference designs and target designs for future products. Standardization and specification of 5G. This is a specification follow up and contribution activity. Attending series of meeting with internal specification group, ratifying the Nokia contributions and getting feedbacks from consortium (5G NR). Cloud Security, Intel TXT, KVM, HSM/TPM2.0, Security Engines, SoC for 5G, Embargo exports, Network security, DPDK, performance measurements, IPSec, CPRI, Fronthaul requirements, Clock synchronization, selection of part numbers for various sections of NR, backplane, 5G architecture requirements, product portfolio follow up for various geographies, customer issues for network migration, backhaul requirements, 5G use cases and simulations, PKI infrastructure for Nokia, compliance with TCG, physical security of equipment’s, chain of trust reviews. Tools: IBM Doors, MagicDraw, MS office, JIRA etc.
Software Architect
Requirements Management. ADAS Short range radar SRR3, verification of system design. CAN Analyser, AUTOSAR, tool chain from Vector tools. V model process compliance. Tools: Polarion, Plastic, Vector Tools, MS office, JIRA etc.
Founder of Xsystems LLP
Product development in the areas of radio communications. Radio communications: Design and Development of wireless communication products based on software defined architecture. VHF antenna rotator has been already launched into market as XTARS21AA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti79LM-F5Vo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuGUEyaoFaM The startup firm is recognised startup in stealth mode. Active participation on procurement summit organised by Government of India Kerala State 2022. One patent granted for XTARS21AA.
Technical Architect
Addressing various projects related to Industrial Business Unit. Embedded Systems, Security, Short Range Wireless, Networking Solutions, Power Electronics, IoT, Industry 4.0. Total Technical and Commercial Proposals submitted of value 1.8million USD. Project Danaher: Obsolescence management of printer platform for biomedical applications. Porting of application into Azure RTOS ThreadX, changing the hardware platform to new MCU RX66T. Project Allegion: Obsolescence management of gateway platform used for smart locks. Porting of application into Yocto TI Arago Linux OS, changing the hardware platform to new AM6231 processor and device hardening. Project Vguard: Transformer less Stabilizer with 1300VA rating. Its design, development and product realization. Project IPCC: Gaming UPS for 1500VA rating. Its design, development and product realization. Project Yazaki: Firmware design for PCS for Yazaki, Japan.
Consulatant
Contributor for https://github.com/sarath-crypto
Education
B.Tech. Electronics & Communication Engineering
B.Tech. Electronics & Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India, First Class (66%). Jun 1997- Jul 2001. •Published a paper “A Frame work of Neural Network Modelling for Soccer Robots” at International Symposium on Autonomous Robots and Agents, National University of Singapore August 5, 2000. •Co-Authored a book on OpAmps with the Head of Department ECED Dr. Y.Venkataramani. •FIRA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_International_Robot-soccer_Association) oBuilding of Calicut REC India chapter from scratch. CREC funded three-year (1998-2001) span project for realizing robo-soccer team which includes ▪Design of image processing lab. ▪Design of soccer field with camera mounted over head the field connected with high end GPU /CPU processing platform for image processing. ▪Design of NAROSOT class robots with color coded shields. ▪Design of image processing software. ▪Design of hardware systems which includes radio controls. ▪Design of AI & ANN based software solution. •Btech Final year thesis on Real Time Operating Systems. •District level Second in “On the Spot Work Experience Competition in Electronics”. 1995 •School level First in “On the Spot Work Experience Competition in Electronics”. 1995 •Distinguished students one-year programme at CUSAT, India, at School of Photonics on Lasers, Quantum mechanics, optical electronics and applications.1996 •State level first in water colour painting competition conducted by All Kerala Bank Employees Association.1990
MSc. Electronics and Telecommunications - Information and Communication Technologies
•MSc. Electronics and Telecommunications - Information and Communication Technologies, Poznan University of science and Technology, International Master’s Program, Poznan, Poland, 2014, Grade 4.1/5(82%). Feb 2013 – Oct 2014 •MSc master thesis on Turbo codes and its applications.