Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led the Rock star Engineering team that helped the company go from low single digit ARR to double digit ARR through organic growth and acquisition. Helped in various evaluations that helped in Series-B funding. Major contributions include:
• 1. Responsible for planning, development and delivery of the core product of SAFE for 7 quarters.
• 2. Helped the pivots on quarterly basis in the product from Native Config Assessment tools to focus on Financial Risk/return in Security Investment(called ROSI), strengthened integrations with Signal Framework(open sourced the same) and absorbing acquisition of RislLens Product into the product
• 3. Involved in journey of migrating the monolithic product to a distributed SAAS architecture with higher scale and leveraging all the technologies/software in AWS.
• 4. Responsible for budgeting for the entire Engineering team.
• 5.Successfully helped the company to transition from pure remote work to a hybrid work and starting WeWork centre in Bangalore.

Nov 2015 – Jan 2022 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• AppDynamics is a leader in Application Intelligence, Application Performance Management and Log Analytics. We are disrupting the performance monitoring space by building Unified Monitoring Platform that provides comprehensive visibility into every bit of tech stack and end user experience - right from request originating from a browser/mobile to all the way up-to Web-Servers/App Servers/Micro-services/ Databases/Hadoop/Network/Servers. Our products can dynamically instrument every single line of code that is being written by millions of developers around the world with negligible overhead in production and providing precise & actionable insights around performance and business in near real-time.
• Part of the core leadership team and helped in growing the Bangalore Center from 50 to 300+ employees
• Contributed significantly in the journey of transforming Monolithic to a pure SAAS Platform leveraging Kubernetes, Kafka and all the modern technologies necessary for the platform to scale to higher level.
• Lead the Alerting team, that is part of ML powered AI Ops Platform for AppDynamics.
• Managed the Quality Engineering that is responsible for Quality and Automation of all products of AppDynamics
• Managed the Product delivery for AppD Server and Network Visibility products.

May 2008 – Oct 2015 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Development of manageability solutions for VDX, Ethernet Fabric Products.
• Brocade VDX switches are Data Centre switches that deliver the utmost simplicity of configuration and management of the hardware with built-in VCS Fabric technology that meet the demands of today’s virtualized and cloud environments.
• Responsible for development of manageability support for VDX over various releases and involved in managing the delivery of various L2 and L3 features including IPV6 support.
• Supported the development of REST Northbound Interface on the switch.
• Built team to work on replacement of critical third party software used for Manageability solutions.
• Development of Brocade’s flagship Brocade Network Advisor (BNA). BNA is industry’s first unified network management system (NMS) for IP Ethernet, SAN, host, application delivery, wireless. BNA supports Fibre Channel SANs, FCoE, IP switching and routing, MPLS networks. BNA integrates seamlessly with hypervisors and management solutions from Microsoft, VMware, EMC, HP, IBM.
• BNA is built on Java Enterprise Edition EJB 3.0 architecture using JBOSS Application server and PostgreSQL database. BNA scales to supports thousands of devices and provide end-end network visibility even for VMs. BNA uses several integration mechanisms like SNMP, CLI, NETCONF, Web Services (SOAP as well as REST) and APIs
• Involved in building the team from scratch in India.
• Defined manageability strategies for different IP market segments
• Led the integration of two complex products INM from Foundry and DCFM from Brocade into the combined product BNA

Apr 2001 – May 2008 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Petaluma, California

• Started as Consultant along with few like minded folks and involved in developing Element and Network Management System for Calix Networks from ground zero and saw the product get deployed by more than 300 customers of Calix. Involved in contributing and managing various features of the product line along with regular customer interaction/demos and working closely with highly talented Product Management team.
• Technology used was ahead of the time with 100% reuse of Element Management System in Network Management System and delivered support for Google mashups, moved from Heavy duty Swing Application to Google web Toolkit(GWT) based web application. On server side, contributions made in JBOSS EJB application.
• Functionally involved in conceptualising, designing and implementing various features with key contribution in Subscriber management, Video provisioning on Calix Hardware etc.

May 1999 – Mar 2001 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Worked as Independent Consultant in several Financial Companies.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

Jan 1995 – Jan 1996 · 1 yr