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Sumit Sahay: A Technophile Who Designs Transformational Software Solutions To Accelerate 5g Validation

Sumit Sahay: A Technophile Who Designs Transformational Software Solutions To Accelerate 5g Validation

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Sumit Sahay,Chief Software Architect

Sumit Sahay

Chief Software Architect

We are on the cusp of the 5G revolution. Businesses are trying to add value through innovations and deliver robust infrastructure solutions to elevate wireless communication to its newest level. While all industry players are focusing on hardware centric solutions, New Delhi based Simnovus Tech is striving to redefine the segment with robust yet cost effective software/SDR (Software Defined Radio) solutions. As a brand that embraces the potential of cutting edge technologies, Simnovus is adopting cloud, data analytics, and other futuristic inventions to revolutionize the cellular wireless T& M segment. Taking such an unconventional path in this hyper-connected world wants the business to maneuver powerful software solutions. This needs a smart brain who sets the perfect base and designs products that sustain. That said, a leader who understands enterprise products and masters designing world class solutions can make a company like Simnovus thrive and achieve its vision amidst this revolution in the making.

Sumit Sahay, Simnovus' Chief Software Architect happened to be the best suit to meet the company's vision of revolutionizing the Indian T&M industry with world class software solutions. In conversation with CEO Insights, the key management of the company mentions, "Sumit is an extremely capable fit for our organization. In fact, he is the enabler in turning our dream a reality". In other words, Sumit also found the purpose of Simnovus to fit his career goals and satisfy his hunger for challenges and innovation.

Following is a snippet of our conversation with Sumit.
Setting a benchmark in the IT industry is not a cakewalk. Did you face any challenges while beginning your career in this space?
The continuously evolving software industry gives us the liberty to learn each day. To me, it looks like the goal post itself has changed. The IT industry has revolutionized in the last decade, and has moved away from customized on premises infrastructure to maturedcloud deployment. Company' preferences for rent and not pay for hardware is a leap bound step in IT industries,
the current ideology is to grow as your business grows.

As an IT specialist, I see myself transformed with growing and changing business needs. The agility with which clients need changes, demands a technocrat to foresee their need and provide solutions that help business attain sustainable competitive advantage. An IT professional must be always vigilant and updated when it comes to using the latest tools, technologies, and processes to help clients and partners.

role entails implementing a product roadmap, leveraging best fit technologies and processes to build our product


My extensive knowledge and two decades of IT experience helped me understand the importance of fault tolerance, failsafe, and a robust framework. It has also made me realize the need to ensure failover, avail ability, scalability, and modularity in the products we build.

How do you use your experiences to chalk out business operations for Simnovus?
I carry decades of experience in standard IT practices and have good knowledge working with ITIL, web security, and CMM5 framework. This is helping us follow guidelines, scalable methods, modular approaches, design standards, scrum/agile implementation, planned release schedule, and CI/CD frame work.

I'm also experienced in various techniques that enable the right solution selection, designing efficient architecture, and planning project execution. This reduces our go-to market time and allows our customers to have a seamless experience. Currently, we are enhancing our solution that allows smooth adoption of automation with the CI/CD pipeline.

Tell us about your responsibilities at Simvonus
I am thankful to Simnovus for offering me a responsible profile of Chief Software Architect. Here, we believe in product innovation and niche offering that benefits our customer. My role entails implementing a product roadmap, leveraging best fit technologies and processes to build our product. This gives me opportunities to explore and brings satisfaction.

Broadly, my responsibility is to ensure that the vi-ion of having a truly software based solution to accelerate 5G validation becomes a reality. We are building the nextgen solutions that accelerate 5G RAN validation, enable parallel execution,
and adoption of automation. Leveraging our solution helps customers do more with less and achieve 10x better ROI.

From a technology leadership stand point, what are some of the latest technologies that you have adjoined to the organization?
As per our product roadmap, the vision is to make the product available as Software as a Service on the cloud. For this, I have taken the task of porting the product to the cloud. The initial results have been encouraging as our customers and partners get a hands-on experience of the product before the purchase. This helps in shortening the sales cycle and gives the customer the confidence that the product will be available as a SaaS product sooner.

How do you ensure to update yourself with the latest industry trends and technologies so that you could always steer your organization towards the zenith despite the competition?
I have continuously upskilled myself with certification and courses. I am planning to invest my time in few of the contemporary tools and technologies like AWS cloud (best practices), Streaming and Realtime solution and dashboard reporting, AI/ML/DL based model design using python, NLP based solution, big data processing using the latest tools, clustering, and HA (high availability) solution. I enjoy architecting and redesigning solutions for diverse business needs.

Which has been the most exciting project undertaken by you so far?
At Simnovus, we believe in innovation and providing nextgen products to our clients. As a brand with a startup mentality, we are open to ideas and collaborative culture. Every project is exciting. Wearing multiple hats, implementing product roadmap, and working directly with clients give me the utmost satisfaction and excitement. My learning has been tremendous through various tasks such as managing, motivating resources, innovating solutions, meeting client's requirements, and working with different stakeholders.

Sumit Sahay, Chief Software Architect, Simnovus Tech
Sumit is an engineering graduate from NIT Jamshedpur, an Executive MBA from IIMB, and an M.Tech (Data Science & Engg.) from BIT Pilani (WILP). He has worked with fortune 500 clients and comes with around 19 years of experience with giants such as Oracle, TCS,and EDS (HP). Sumit is happily married to Neelima, an IIMC alumnus, and is blessed with two kids. Currently, Sumit is a member of the alumni association of NIT Jamshedpur, IIM Bangalore and BITS Pilani. He mentors students and gives pep talks and keynote speeches at events.

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