When the site is a day's drive away
Remote radio and surveillance sites meant every trip had to count. Carry the spare, test before you leave, write down what you changed.
Taught me: prepare like there's no second trip.
Bangui, Central African Republic
Hi, I'm Kranthi.
Hi, I'm Kranthi.
I build tools where the network is thin.
Digital systems and knowledge management specialist with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Fourteen years in the field: telecom sites in Hyderabad and Tanzania, a 3G rollout in Bangui, four years leading the UN drone unit, and now the apps and dashboards that 12 field offices run on.
- From Hyderabad, India
- 12 field offices, one picture
- Power Platform · Data · AI
14years in field operations, since 2012
3countries: India, Tanzania, Central African Republic
~$65Mof ICT assets cleaned into one leadership dashboard
12field offices supported with apps, data and training
The road so far
From radio towers to data.
No straight line. Each job added something the next one needed: hardware first, then the field, then the information that holds a mission together.
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Jun 2012 – Sep 2014 · Hyderabad, India
Maintenance Engineer
Ericsson India · for Airtel
Kept 200+ cell sites running in Hyderabad East: GSM and 3G base stations, microwave links, power plants. The availability target was 99.99%, monsoon included.
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Sep 2014 – Feb 2018 · Tanzania
Site Supervisor
TalkPool AG · for Ericsson, with Airtel, Tigo and Zantel
2G, 3G and LTE rollouts on remote sites: transmission links, Huawei-to-Ericsson swaps, integration and acceptance, and leading subcontractor crews far from any office.
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Jul 2018 – Mar 2019 · Central African Republic
Project Management Coordinator
TalkPool AG · for Ericsson and Moov
Planned and delivered a 47-site 3G network across Bangui and the provinces: clearances, supply chain, field teams and customer sign-off.
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Aug 2019 – Mar 2020 · Bangui
Special Equipment Operator
Aeronautics Group · UN MINUSCA "Eye in the Sky"
Operated surveillance and reconnaissance systems for the mission's force-protection project.
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Mar 2020 – Jul 2024 · Central African Republic
UAV (Drones) Unit Team Leader
United Nations · MINUSCA
Led flight operations and mission planning with military and police units, wrote the SOPs, manuals and training syllabus, and trained military observer pilots.
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Apr 2024 – now · Bangui
Digital Systems & Knowledge Management Specialist
CTG · supporting UN MINUSCA Field Technology Services
Digital transformation for 12 field offices: SharePoint knowledge hubs, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI, a cleaned ~USD 65M ICT asset register behind one leadership dashboard, and AI literacy training for staff.
Field stories
The hard parts taught the most.
Hardship postings are not about the hardship. They're about getting things working with what you have.
Apps that survive a weak connection
Field offices work on satellite links that drop. So the tools I build keep forms short, clicks few, and data light, so a report still gets in on a bad day.
Taught me: design for the worst connection, not the best.
Twelve offices, one picture
Every office reported differently. Pulling it into one structure and one dashboard meant managers stopped asking "what's the status?" and started deciding.
Taught me: the data model matters more than the chart.
What I build
Tools people open every day.
Small, practical systems on Microsoft Power Platform. Each one replaced an email chain or a spreadsheet nobody trusted.
Daily service status check
A one-screen app where each field office confirms its ICT services in a few taps. Anything down goes straight to the service desk.
Power AppsSharePointPower Automate
Cargo movement tracker
Moved from a shared Excel file to a live dashboard: what's requested, what's moving, what's stuck, by office.
Power BISharePointDAX
Satellite terminal monitoring
Brought satellite internet terminals across field offices into the same daily check, so outages show up in one place.
Power AppsSharePoint
Incident report library
A searchable dashboard over hundreds of report documents, so finding last month's incident takes seconds, not a search through folders.
Power BISharePoint
Described in general terms only. No operational data is shown on this site.
Toolkit
SharePoint OnlinePower BI · DAXPower AppsPower AutomateCopilot StudioGISSurveillance systemsUAV operationsEricsson RAN & microwaveITIL 4n8nHTML · JavaScriptCloudflare
Education & certifications
- NowOnline MBAIGNOU, New Delhi
- DegreeEngineeringSri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tirupati
- 2026AI/ML for Geodata AnalyticsIIRS, Indian Space Research Organisation
- 2026Aviation Risk Management for Operational PersonnelUN Department of Operational Support
- 2024Certified Artificial Intelligence ProfessionalDIAT (DRDO)
- 2023Part 107 drone pilot coursePilot Institute
- 2022ITIL® 4 FoundationSimplilearn
- NextMicrosoft PL-300: Power BI Data AnalystPlanned
Now
What I'm working on.
Study
Going deeper in data
DAX, data modelling and the "why" behind a dashboard, not just how it looks.
Build
Practical AI
Agents and automations that save field teams real hours, built safely.
Life
Learning French
For daily life in Bangui, and the next posting. Petit à petit.
Say hello.
Working in a field mission, building on Power Platform, or just far from home? I'd like to hear from you.