About

Mayank Sharma is a Principal Architect with over 16 years of experience in software product development and delivery. He is also an entrepreneur and a startup enthusiast who is passionate about applying technology to solve real-world problems that impact people's lives. Mayank is a self-starter who follows agile processes for product development and Lean startup principles for running a business. Mayank has worked with a variety of technologies in the past, including networking and telecom protocols, high-level embedded engineering, Linux kernel, Bluetooth stack, mobile applications, web 2.0, and cloud technologies. He is a fast learner and can quickly pick up new technologies that are not in his domain. Mayank is particularly interested in location and mobile technologies, which he believes provide an interesting and challenging dimension when applied to India. Location provides a highly implicit way of customizing a relevant application to an individual, while mobile provides the ubiquitousness for your application to be used when needed. In addition to his technical skills, Mayank is also an expert in entrepreneurship and all aspects of starting and running a company/business. He has experience developing, running, and scaling web-based applications, cloud technologies, location-based services, and mobile applications. He is proficient in Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Python, Linux kernel programming, low-level drivers development, Bluetooth stack, and stereo music streaming profiles. Mayank is currently working as a Software Engineer at Mindtree, where he has implemented GMCP Protocol and SIP for Voice over IP network. He was instrumental in working on the RRC layer of 3G stack for a company that got acquired by Cisco. He has also worked as a Technical Lead at Impulsesoft, where he worked on Linux bringup on various ARM-based platforms and provided A2DP and GMCP based development kits to key customers for R&D. At Sirf Technology, Mayank was a staff engineer responsible for providing Linux BSP on SiRF SoC platforms to key customers and enhancing multimedia and 3D experience on the SoC by using the hardware capabilities. Mayank completed his education from Kendriya Vidyalaya and has relevant experience of 22.71 years. He is a solutions architect, hands-on technologist, and a passionate entrepreneur who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.