Vijay Kumar has been designing real-time embedded systems, cloud platform and providing software solutions in various industries for more than 20 years. Vijay is currently a senior engineering manager at Alphatec designing software solutions for spine surgery. Previously, he was an Engineering Manager at Vermeer providing IoT solutions for manufacturing and at Curtiss -Wright creating embedded solutions for the defense industry. Mr. Kumar has served as Director of Engineering at Omnitracs who specialize in providing SAAS solutions for transportation and logistics industries. Vijay was also a Director of Engineering at Qualcomm where he worked on connected mobile devices and satellite systems. Vijay acquired a BS in Electronics and Communications from National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Trichy, India and an MS in Computer Science from John Hopkins University.