About

Karthik Balaguru is a Senior Technical Manager with over 19 years of experience in Software Development, Engineering Services, and Product Management in embedded software and networking products. He has a proven track record in collaborating and driving large-scale cross-functional teams located in different locations. Karthik has managed multiple product lines in a fast-paced environment with dynamic goals for evolving needs. He is proficient in building and managing strategic relations with clients, ODMs, and suppliers across boundaries. Karthik's key strengths lie in C/C++, data structures, multi-threading, device drivers, network programming, BSP, board bring-up, wireless and networking protocols/stacks. He is familiar with the latest platform technologies such as Microservices, Containers, Orchestration, Messaging, Auto-scale, HA, Multi-tenant, and Public-Cloud. Karthik's experience includes working with network switch/routers, cellular base stations/eNB/HeNB/NR NB and UE/MS, WiFi APs, WLC, and emerging technologies such as IoT/M2M/Telematics. He has contributed to Patent Idea generation groups, Business Focus groups, and pioneered the Linux user group. Karthik has made technical proposals and achieved business wins with a win-win outcome. Karthik has experience in waterfall & agile projects, process set-up, mentoring, and guiding junior engineers. He has handled TM, FP projects with a team of 9 to 40+ members. Karthik has done Technical design, architectural guidance, and support in complex product deployments. His experience includes working with large-scale products & top companies such as Samsung, Facebook, Tesla, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, KDDI. Karthik holds an M.Tech degree in Software Systems (BITS Pilani) with a specialization in embedded, wireless, networking, and cloud computing. His technical expertise includes ARM, PIC, ADSP2181, OMAP, SAM8, Intel x86, Atom, QCOM(LTE, WiFi) chipsets, Linux System programming, Device drivers, Wireless(LTE (rel-8 - 14), WiFi (ac/ax), 5G, WCDMA, WiMAX, Bluetooth), Cellular RAN & Core network entities, Wired(Ethernet, LLDP, Routing protocols (STP, RSTP, RIP, BGP)), Router and NMS, Network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, SCTP),