Yathish Nagavalli

Chief Enterprise Architect at Freelance

BENGALURU, India

SUMMARY

Yathish is a dynamic leader with 28+ years of experience in global product companies with track record of success in leadership, innovation, business & technology strategy, market development and building large scale distributed systems to drive organization goals and objectives. He is a results-driven & decisive leader with business acumen who is adept at driving improvements, building multi cultural & high performance teams, and fostering cross-departmental cooperation with global distributed teams. Yathish is a thought leader with strong technical, business and customer engagement experience along with good communication, negotiation, organizational and interpersonal skills. Competent and able professional who will roll up his sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the job done at both strategic and tactical level.

EXPERTISE

Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, 5G Monetization, IoT, OSS/BSS, Mobile Wallet, Blockchain, CRM, Distributed systems, SaaS/PaaS, Cloud Native / Microservices Architecture, iBPM, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Operational Agility, Automation, Business & Technology Strategy, Innovation, Product Marketing, Market Insight, GTM strategies, Consulting, Pre-Sales, Thought Leadership, M&A Due Diligence, Industry Speaker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Chief Enterprise Architect Jan 2015 – July 2019
- Global role with following responsibilities:
o Devise CSPs digital transformation strategies to get there cheaper, better, faster
o Drive key initiatives such as 5G monetization, Revenue Management, IoT and Mobile Money, and influence product roadmap, marketing and solution sales
o Thought leadership, CXO evangelism, industry engagements (TM Forum, MWC, public speaking, webinars) & analyst engagements (Gartner, Ovum, IDC, AM, etc.)
o Appointed member of Business Technology Advisory Council (BTAC) in HQ to formulate global business and technology strategy for the software company
- Key achievements:
o Instrumental in initiating several strategic initiatives such as ‘Value Agenda – Purpuse driven, value led’, streamlining R&D investments to ‘core competencies’, business model innovation & key products move to SaaS / PaaS & Cloud native architecture
o Devised tools & methodologies to engage with Customers for Digital Transformation
o Development of 5G Monetization, IoT, Mobile Money & Blockchain use cases, business models and technology readiness
o Outstanding success in market development by defining and executing inbound marketing campaigns, skillfully interfacing with industry experts across major CSPs, industry forums, analysts, and SIs to drive standards and best practices (Webinars, speaking events, panel discussions, publishing white papers and articles)

Chief Architect (Chief Technology Officer) Feb 2010 to Dec 2014
- Key responsibilities:
o Build high end team of Architects to indigenously create telecom grade high performing integration and middleware technologies
o Responsible for technology readiness and to ensure the company remains relevant & competent for the foreseeable future
- Key achievements:
o Started from scratch and built the innovation center in Bangalore, India & built key underlying middleware technologies that would aid in enabling digital transformation
o Outstanding success in building consensus among executive management and all relevant stakeholders about technology charters and roadmap for success
o Indigenously built key technologies like SOA ESB, SOA Studio, intelligent BPM, distributed real time stream computing platform with pattern recognition, and big data AI components such as recommendation engine & sentiment analysis – each with advanced levels of performance, reliability & scalability to serve mission critical OSS/BSS applications and use cases.

SupportSoft Inc. / Consona Corp., Bangalore, India January 2008 to Feb 2010
Director – Software Development
- Head of the global Engineering organization (distributed across US, Europe and India) with responsibilities for the software development life cycle for all Enterprise products [R&D, Maintenance and Support].
- Consona Corporation acquired SupportSoft Enterprise business in June 2009.

CSG Systems Inc., Omaha, Nebraska, USA February 1996 to Sept 2007
Director - Architecture, Analysis and Design
- Key Responsibilities:
o Head of Architecture, Analysis and design for global organization across all products
o Support product management, sales and marketing teams to help make new sales
- Key Achievements:
o Chief Architect for multi year project to create Cloud based telecom grade highly scalable, high-throughput OSS/BSS product suite for broadband and satellite market
o Member of Technology Working Group - the leadership team, played the role of CTO
o Lead the effort to develop Customer Care and Billing solution for broadband industry including Product Catalog, CRM, Billing, real time rating and provisioning interfaces to support Voice, Video, Data, VoIP, wireless and IPTV capabilities
o Helped define and implement processes around SDLC. Successfully lead the company wide agile transformation to move from waterfall to SCRUM methodology
o Actively involved in due diligence that led to company partnerships, mergers/acquisitions (Ex: Acquisition of Kenan, Telution)

Computer Enterprises Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October 1994 to Feb 1996
Senior Consultant

Virtual Windows Pvt. Ltd., India April 1991 – October 1994
Senior Software Engineer

EDUCATION
? Master of Business Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA [1997 – 1999]
? Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Bangalore University, India [1987 – 1991]

AWARDS
? Industry award ‘Top Chief Architects in India’ category by iCMG in 2015
? ‘FUTURE STAR Award’, numerous best contributor and best presenter awards at Huawei
? Award For Excellence, Bravo and Team Bravo awards at CSG

PUBLICATIONS
? Periodically published articles in several industry journals – available in public domain

CITIZENSHIP - Citizen of USA and Overseas Citizen of India

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Available For: Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Bangalore, India
Speaking Topics: Blockchain, 5G, IoT, AI, Future of Works, Digital Transformation, Technology Innovation