Venkatesh Sai

Co Founder & Technical Director
Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies

Venkatesh Sai is currently the Technical Director of Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies, a Deep Tech company in Control and communication avionics for the Aerospace and Defence Industry. Zuppa has been a pioneer in the Micro category drones, Autopilots and RF Based Communication Systems with them being the only Indian manufacturer, amongst the handful of such players across the world. He owns multiple Indian and international Patents, His pioneering patent which has been successfully commercialized is for Disseminated Parallel Control Computing Architecture for Realtime and ultra real time applications. Has created over 60+ products and POC’s in his career like IMU’s, AHRS modules, Ground Control Software’s (GCS), INS & IN-GPS Modules and has worked across both unmanned and manned avionic systems within the A&D Sector. Complete Technology in charge (Software & Embedded specialist), Co Founder – Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies Pvt Ltd. Know more than 30 different programming languages, Extensive Knowledge in avionics specifically for control and communication, have worked across the A&D sector with multiple stakeholders and end users all the way from field army units to ADB Army Headquarters, have worked on executing multi crore projects with DPSU’S like HAL, BEL as well as with end users like Indian air force and army thru IDEX-DIO. Have over 14 years’ experience in design of Realtime Embedded Firmware and Hardware for Automobile and Aerospace products. Have directly contributed in Achieving 45Cr worth of orders and supplies for products designed and developed by myself and my team. Have complete cyber physical stack experience and have worked on solutions where we have designed from the embedded chip level all the way up to software stack and application layer utilizing multiple Interdisciplinary technologies. Apart from execution, I Have been the primary solution architect for multiple complex projects and have managed upto 80+ team members under me on certain projects. Have created complete stack solutions and worked with host of languages from PHP, JSP Server let, Flutter for apps, JAVA for backend microservices. Created my own Thread pool for DBMS storage. Have an overall skill also in DEVOPS for Linux and windows on AWS. Have Management experience of Managing large inter-disciplinary teams with 45 teams members in PCB design, Software Development, Firmware Development and System Integration on an AGILE project workflow for various customers in IIoT(Industrial IoT) and Control System space using JIRA, Monday.com, ZOHO project and such tools.