Summary
Cristyan Manta is a PhD-trained technologist and partner-level leader in automation, AI/ML and network evolution with nine years in strategic consulting and over a decade of hands-on telecom engineering. Based in Munich, he blends deep transport and IP/MPLS expertise with SDN, NetDevOps and hybrid cloud architectures to help service providers modernize OSS/automation, achieve multi-million euro savings, and prototype network-slicing and AI-driven network management. At Wipro he shapes industry strategy for Communications & Media, contributes to TMForum initiatives, and has pioneered Generative AI and cognitive services for telecom operational use cases. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, Cristyan pairs academic rigor—as a former adjunct professor and PhD researcher—with practical program delivery across large-scale transformation and automation projects. Notably, his work spans standard-minded integrations (YANG/IETF/ONF) and pragmatic cost-optimization in multi-vendor environments, making him both a domain strategist and an execution-focused architect.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD on Information and Communication Technologies, PhD on Information and Communication Technologies at Universidad de Granada
Master of Science in Information and Communications Teleinformatics, Master of Science in Information and Communications Teleinformatics at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
English, Spanish, German