About

Aayush Bhatnagar is a Senior Vice President at Reliance Jio, with over 15 years of experience in cutting-edge software development. He is currently focused on developing cloud-native 5G Core and 5G Radio technology, which has been designed, developed, and manufactured in India. Aayush is also involved in 5G advanced and early 6G research to carry forward R&D initiatives in the 5G space. Prior to his current role, Aayush was responsible for the commercialization of home-grown IMS VoLTE platforms, including the VoLTE TAS, Business TAS, IPSMGW, SMSC, CRBT, and other platforms. These platforms are running today in the world’s largest VoLTE 4G network. Aayush has developed various products for India, including 5G Core Networks R&D, 5G Radio development, Internet of Things Platform & NB-IoT, Cellular IoT Core Network Nodes, Blockchain Platform & DApp Development, NFV and SDN Platforms, Container & Edge Orchestration Stacks, Distributed Data Lakes for Machine Learning, Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Controller, Business TAS (Enterprise) services for IMS, Converged VoLTE TAS for 4G & 5G, IP Short Message Gateways & SMSCs, 4G Packet Core development (PCRF, MME, DRA, HSS), and RESTful API exposure gateways (CAPIF). Apart from software development, Aayush is also involved in systems engineering activities of software products, including the creation of network architecture, network design, engineering, and traffic dimensioning. He applied these skills for one of the world's largest VoLTE deployments at Reliance Jio, spread across 22 circles of India. Recently, Aayush has been involved in the deployment of a pan-India indigenously developed 5G Core network across multiple data centers and edge sites. Aayush has a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He is skilled in Blockchain, Dapp, ML, Software Engineering, Microservices, Research Science, Backend, Infra, Senior Software Engineering, Android, and iOS.