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Vikram Siwach

Director Product Management
I help define product scale strategy for high growth startups and cloud ecosystem at companies by driving open source. I define and design product platforms for best experience and performance. Currently building next generation content distribution platform on multi cloud edge for immersive, AI applications.
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TikTok
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Harvard Business School
San Jose, CA, USA

Professional Background

  • Current status
  • Profession
    Project / Product Management
  • Fields
    Software
  • Work experience
    More than 15 years (10-15 years relevant)
  • Management
  • Skills
    Product Management
    Stakeholder Engagement
    Platform Architecture
    Infrastructure Development
    5G
    Networking & Security
    TCP/IP stack
    Strategy
    Virtualization
    Software Development
    Program Management
    System Architecture
    C++
    Linux Kernel
    Kubernetes
    Spark
    Cassandra
    Product Design
    CDN
    SaaS
  • Highest level of education
    Master

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Product Manager
  • Desired work locations
    Boston, MA, USA
    Mountain View, CA, USA
  • Freelance
    Non-freelancer

Work Experience

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Group Product Manager

TikTok
Full-time
Aug 2021 - Present
Own multi cloud content distribution for Tiktok. Booted up telco content cloud to deliver immersive content distributed across telco networks. Leading open source initiative for infrastructure code including trust gateways for data transit observability. Building and managing shared trust partnerships with public cloud providers. Leading enterprise cloud drop features to enable our SaaS within privacy of customers cloud account.
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Director Product Management

Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
2 yrs 7 mos
MobiledgeX is creating a federation of mobile operators to build telco edge cloud. As a founding product manager laying out the infrastructure and virtualization landscape to move immersive and AI applications towards edge. Lead go to market with key hyper-scalers to build edge cloudlets within telecom infrastructure across key zones in Europe, Asia and North Americas. Leading a multi-year vision for development team to build server less orchestration with advanced offloads on specialized devices. Driving networking industry vendors to create open source edge stack blueprints which will enable data path programmability, optimal resource based scheduling to serve low latency workloads at edge. Lead GSMA Architecture group defining operator edge platform. Chair Linux foundation edge Architecture and API communities.

Advisor

Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
2 yrs 1 mo
Quantonium is building advanced linux networking technology. Advise early stage startup on product strategy/management, monetization, and go-to-market strategy.
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Product Architect

Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
3 yrs 7 mos
Innovation arm within mobile operator. Led architecture | design for scaling next generation billing cloud deployment within Verizon. The SDN based Cloud and Inline data plane platform with TCP optimization is deployed nationwide for all future sophisticated commercial offerings from Verizon. Designed and developed along with a team of 6 architects a billing platform prototype which culminated with an investment of $20MN. Led managers and their teams of software development, QA and operation across US and India to take the billing prototype to a fully integrated SDN platform for deployment in live network. Indirectly managed a team of cross functional program managers to align development, marketing, legal and operations team efforts with timelines. Responsible for go to market decisions. The platform led to open up the network APIs for programmability of billing, policing services by a subscriber in real time. Product is deployed nationwide to serve 100MN subscribers advanced billing needs.
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Founding Engineer

Dec 2010 - Jun 2015
4 yrs 7 mos
Affirmed Networks is Market leader virtualizing mobile core networks. Hired day one as part of core engineering team to bootstrap the stealth startup. Coded various layers of stacks to build EPC core as virtualized functions. Worked through various early access product problems both at the frameworks and the system level. Architected, design and development of configuration model framework, implemented provisioning, dynamic modification of services at control and data plane. Established and managed a team of 5 engineers to develop EPC control plane stacks from ground up. As part of the team designed and developed highly efficient resource allocation and storage strategy for signaling keys. Implemented Offline Charging interface across multiple gateways.

Principal Engineer

May 2007 - Dec 2010
3 yrs 8 mos
Moved across countries to build carrier grade product of my own, I conceived, designed and coded parts of signaling gateway product deployed in 50 countries across 5 of the 6 world’s largest carriers.

Protocol Stack Developer

May 2003 - May 2007
4 yrs 1 mo
Developed component protocol stacks used in 3G network nodes. Spearheaded solving problems reported from the live network deployments and consulted clients for integration and deployments across the globe.

Education

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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
General Management
2013 - 2014
Description
Executive Education
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Bachelor of Science (BS)
Computer Science
1999 - 2003
Activities and societies
President of computer science department students society, organized computer science festivals with participation from Microsoft,Cisco,Hughes Software Systems and others. Participated in cultural festivals and activities, casted at MTV shows