Santanu De
Sr Technical Program Manager at KPIT
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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SeniorSantanu De is a Senior Technical Program Manager with nearly two decades in IT and eight years of focused program delivery, now leading software-defined vehicle initiatives at KPIT. He combines deep hands-on engineering experience—spanning Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, DDS, MQTT, SDN controllers like OpenDaylight and Cisco NSO, and cloud-native tooling such as Kubernetes and Kafka—with proven program management skills and Agile practice. Santanu has repeatedly bridged networking, automotive, and enterprise domains to deliver large-scale, cross-functional programs on time and budget. He is comfortable translating complex technical protocols and architectures into clear, actionable plans for stakeholders and teams. Beyond management, he remains a practitioner fluent in Python, Java, gRPC, model-driven network tools (Yang/Netconf), observability stacks and CI/CD pipelines, which helps him drive technical decisions hands-on. Based in Pune, he brings a rare mix of low-level protocol familiarity and program-level leadership to next-generation vehicle networking and distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
opendaylight5
gerrit4
javascript3
mongodb1
nodejs1
react1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
santanude/unimgr
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Clone of https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/unimgr
Contributions:91 pushes in 4 months
javascriptopendaylightgerrit
santanude/legato
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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