Umesh Racha.

About

10+ years of shipping telecom-grade products — and still hands-on.

I joined as a software programmer on IconRadius in December 2015 and grew into Head of Product across IconRadius and IconMedia. Along the way: 400+ enterprise ISP deployments, a team of 15, CAS integrations with Nagra, SafeView and ABV, and a country-wide broadband & media rollout with a large telecom operator.

I care about platforms that stay reliable at scale, not just during demos — which is why I still design HA topologies, review integrations and read logs when something is off.

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Umesh Racha

Head of Product · Hyderabad, India

Languages: English · Hindi · Telugu

Meeting slots: weekday evenings (IST) or flexible by arrangement

Why me

Product leadership with real telecom & ISP depth.

10+ years in product development and management across enterprise, consumer internet, media and telecom — finding the customer's real pain point fast and shipping the fix that holds up in production.

Proven at scale

400+ enterprise ISP deployments, a country-wide telecom rollout and long-term ownership of platforms that thousands of subscribers rely on daily.

Product + engineering leadership

Full SDLC ownership — coding standards, reviews, SCM, build, testing and operations — plus roadmap ownership and stakeholder alignment.

Telecom domain depth

CAS, routers, OSS/BSS, SMS for MSOs, TR-069 and GenieACS — combined with cloud and HA design for real networks, not lab demos.

Who I work with

  • ISPs & MSOs expanding coverage, launching new plans or entering new cities and regions.

  • Telecom operators modernising legacy OSS/BSS stacks and CAS integrations without downtime.

  • Founders & product teams building telecom/infra SaaS products that need pragmatic execution.

  • Enterprise IT & architecture teams who want an experienced partner to validate or design critical platforms.

Experience

One company, multiple hats — from programmer to Head of Product.

Always focused on shipping and scaling telecom-grade products.

Telecom & ISP product experience

10+ years

  • Head of Product

    Jan 2023 – Present

    Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    • Full SDLC ownership: coding standards, code reviews, SCM, build, testing and operations.
    • Architecture for new and existing systems — patterns, reliability and scaling.
    • Deep understanding of product design, dependencies and trade-offs.
    • Influences stakeholders across levels to align roadmap, delivery and operations.

  • Sr. Manager – Products

    Nov 2019 – Jan 2023

    Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    • Led IconMedia — SMS application for MSOs for Digital TV & IPTV services.
    • Handled CAS integrations with Nagra, SafeView, ABV and similar systems.
    • Project lead for country-wide rollout of broadband & media software with a large telecom operator.
    • Drove enhancements to existing products and conceptualised new products.

  • Full Stack Developer

    Nov 2017 – Nov 2019

    Hyderabad Area, India

    • Led a team of 15; responsible for version releases of IconRadius.
    • Supported rollouts and large deployments for 400+ enterprise ISPs.
    • Conceptualised and developed the Android/iOS mobile app for IconRadius.
    • NAS/BRAS integration with core routers (Huawei/Cisco/Nokia/Mikrotik/Juniper).

  • Software Programmer

    Dec 2015 – Nov 2017

    Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    • Developed modules for the ISP management software IconRadius (end-to-end ISP operations).
    • Handled installation, client interaction and post-implementation support.

Skills

From product lifecycle to cloud architecture.

Product leadership, telecom domain expertise and hands-on engineering across AI, mobile, databases and cloud.

AI for telecom & ISP operations

Using AI to surface patterns in network behaviour, predict incidents and automate responses that keep subscriber experiences stable.

SaaS product development

Building SaaS products that handle billing, entitlements, integrations and operations across multi-tenant environments.

Product lifecycle management

From discovery to deprecation — roadmaps, releases, feedback loops and operations aligned to measurable outcomes.

AI tools

OpenAIOllama (deepseek-r1, llama3.x, qwen2.5)

Languages

CPHPJavaASP.NETJavaScriptHTMLCSS

Mobile & front-end

FlutterIonicAngularReact NativeFramework7Node.js

Databases

MySQLMongoDBRedisGalera ClusterCassandraClickHouse

Load balancing

HAProxykeepalived

Network integrations

CiscoNokiaJuniperMikrotikHuaweiOSS/BSS systemsCAS + SMS for MSOs

Cloud & infra

VMwareProxmoxRHELCentOSUbuntuDockerAWSAzureGoogle CloudDigitalOcean

Telecom & VoIP

TR-069GenieACSFreePBXVoIP

Design

PhotoshopIllustratorInDesignAfter EffectsCanva

VCS & IoT

GitGitHubSubversionRaspberry PiPi PicoArduino

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