About

From Surat to Dallas, building as I go.

Making the complex clear. Bridging the gap between engineering, systems, and real-world impact.

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Dhruval Potla

Bio

The world loves a silo.

It rewards the specialist who stays in their lane, optimizes their tiny corner, and never looks up.

But the problems worth solving don't live in silos. They live in the intersections.

My foundation is in Wireless Communications, RF Design, and SDRs. But my actual work is translation. I take the chaotic, invisible complexity of our systems and I engineer clarity.

Innovation isn't a solitary act. It happens when disparate ideas collide. It happens when we see patterns where others see noise, and when someone is brave enough to say, "What if we tried it this way?"

I don't just build systems. I build the bridges between them. I lead teams not by dictating, but by finding their unique strengths and giving them the space to do work that matters.

The future doesn't belong to the people who build higher walls. It belongs to the people who connect the dots.

Let’s build something remarkable.

Experience

Technical Project Coordinator — RF Safety & Compliance

Feb 2025 — Present

Mobilecomm Professionals Inc. · Richardson, TX

  • — Spearheaded end-to-end project management for Verizon's DAS, EME, and Small-Cell / CRAN RF Safety programs — delivered 350+ predictive and on-field EME compliance reports, the highest project volume to date.
  • — Primary client liaison for Verizon and AT&T CRAN EME / RFE engagements — owned technical accuracy, schedule adherence, and cross-team communication across multiple concurrent high-volume programs.
  • — Directed AT&T's National CRAN Certification Letter initiative — managed certification and documentation for 1,000+ CRAN nodes nationwide.
  • — Implemented automation frameworks for data management, report generation, and QC workflows — reduced manual effort, cut human error, accelerated turnaround.
  • — Operated FUZE, IXUS, and custom in-house automation to maintain stringent quality control and regulatory compliance across every deliverable.

RF Engineer — FCC Compliance Test Team

Oct 2023 — Feb 2025

GCB Services · McKinney, TX

  • — Led a team in planning, executing, and developing methodologies for FCC Compliance testing of 400+ Hex-7's for DISH Wireless 5G NR infrastructure.
  • — Applied advanced RF optimization — cluster testing, ATP, 5-2-2, and XCAP — to improve network performance, call quality, and efficiency.
  • — Developed a live tracker that surfaced tester locations in real time on Google Earth via custom KML layers — materially improved field visibility and PM efficiency.
  • — Generated EME compliance reports for Verizon using IXUS, RoofMaster, and FUZE — communicated exceedance issues to clients and automated the most repetitive parts of the workflow.

Research Lead — Chip-less RFID Development

Sep 2022 — May 2023

WINGS Lab, University at Buffalo · Buffalo, NY

  • — Improved tag-reading accuracy by 40% by developing an SDR-based chip-less RFID reader.
  • — Authored an Out-of-Tree (OoT) block in GNU Radio adding dynamic center-frequency adjustment — Linux + Python.
  • — Reduced physical-prototyping cost by optimizing tag designs through CST Studio simulations.
  • — Optimized tag geometry against measured S-parameters using a Vector Network Analyzer.

Education

M.S. Electrical Engineering

SUNY University at Buffalo

Jan 2022 — May 2023

Focus: Wireless Communications & RF Systems. Research with WINGS Lab on chip-less RFID and SDR.

B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering

SRM University, Chennai, India

2016 — 2020

Foundation in analog / digital electronics, signal processing, and embedded systems.

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) 200-301

Cisco · 2024

Networking fundamentals, IP services, security, automation, and programmability — the protocol-level grounding behind every RF backhaul link.

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FAA Part 107 — Remote Pilot Certificate

Federal Aviation Administration · 2023

Authorized to operate small unmanned aircraft for commercial work — site surveys, antenna inspections, and rooftop reconnaissance.

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Toolkit

What I work with

RF & COMPLIANCE

IXUSRoofmasterFUZEAtollMapInfoXCAPFCC OET-65ICNIRP / Safety Code 6

DESIGN & SIMULATION

CST Microwave StudioAdvanced Design Systems (ADS)QUCSGNU Radio

HARDWARE

Vector Network Analyzer (VNA)Spectrum AnalyzerSoftware Defined Radios (SDR)ArduinoRaspberry PiLoRaWAN8051 / CC2650

LANGUAGES

PythonMATLABC / C++

DOMAIN

5G NR / DAS / Small-Cell / CRANEME ModelingDrive Test & Post-ProcessingAutomation / QC Tooling

Outside work

RF safety is what I do, and I love it. This is the rest of the story.

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A briefing I built

Every morning starts with long-form briefings on world politics, global finance, technology and strategy, turned into audio I can listen to like a personal podcast. I built the routine myself, and I test AI tools against each other and keep whichever does the job best. The point isn’t the news. It’s making learning a daily habit instead of an occasional burst.

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Seeing the whole board

I follow energy, defense, gold, AI and the big financial institutions because I want to understand the forces that shape the world. I think in systems and second-order effects: how a geopolitical shift moves a commodity price, and how that moves a company. Not to predict the future — to be less surprised by it.

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Body as a system

I go to the gym, play badminton and pay attention to nutrition. I approach it like any system I want to understand: what actually moves the result, and what’s just noise. The gym rewards consistency; badminton is a reminder that being ready matters as much as being strong.

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