Oct 2023 – Aug 2024 · 10 mos

• Built 0-to-1 multi-cloud "Backup as a Service" offering for Oracle and SAP HANA
• Enhanced Clumio's SQL backup offering in AWS

Apr 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Product Leadership & Strategy: Led the database product strategy for Rubrik's SaaS platform across on-premises and cloud environments while leading a high-performing team of Senior Product Managers.
• 0-to-1 Product Launch & Major Wins: Launched multiple 0-to-1 backup and recovery products, including SAP HANA and Db2. Drove initial customer adoption, securing a landmark $15M+ ACV deal with a v1 product—the second-largest win in company history at the time.
• Hyper-Growth & Scalability: Scaled the NFS/SMB managed volumes product from tens to over a hundred customers, expanding consumption from tens of terabytes to multiple petabytes. Prioritised stability over new features, slashing annual support cases by 97.5% (from 1,000+ to 25).
• Award-Winning Product Innovation: Received a Founder's Award for the SAP HANA protection product, which achieved the company's fastest adoption rate from 0 to 100 enterprise customers and became its largest cloud data protection offering by footprint in terms of back-end petabytes.
• Rapid Innovation Lifecycle: Led the end-to-end creation of the "SLA Managed Volume" product, taking it from initial concept to a filed patent in US Patent office and market launch in just nine months.
• Strategic Turnaround & Portfolio Management: Revived the vCloud backup product by architecting and executing a successful turnaround plan within the first 90 days of joining Rubrik. Managed the strategy for a diverse database portfolio, including Oracle, SQL, Cassandra, Postgres, and MongoDB.

Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 · 6 mos

Jul 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Nov 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Defined the product strategy for vRealize Operations, focusing on Storage (vSAN and third-party) and Extensibility (Management Packs).
• Led the initial (v1.0) product management for auto-remediation, Skyline integration, and Microsoft Azure integration.
• Served as a speaker at VMworld US, receiving high customer ratings for session content and delivery.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

• Recruited as the first Product Manager hired outside of the US.
• Led product management for Red Hat Gluster Storage, overseeing the delivery of critical capabilities including NFSv3/v4, SMB, Snapshots, Erasure Coding, and Tiering.
• Drove the integration of storage features for Containers/Kubernetes with key platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift, Container Native Storage, RHEL, Virtualization, and OpenStack.
• Managed the product lifecycle for the console and web-based management interface of Red Hat Gluster Storage.
• Served as a public speaker on containers and storage at Red Hat forums and authored multiple customer-facing assets, including blogs and videos.

Jul 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

• Bootstrapped and led the technical pre-sales solutions division, hiring, managing, and grooming a team of solution engineers.
• Designed and led the creation of software-defined storage (SDS) products that solved noisy neighbor issues for Managed Services Providers (MSPs) and Cloud Services Providers (CSPs).
• Responsible for product pricing (perpetual and subscription) for standalone software and software bundled with OEM/commodity hardware, and designed turnkey hardware+software appliances with vendors like Dell and Supermicro.
• Led CloudByte's pre-sales efforts, resulting in successful Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) and major initial customer wins, and secured the prestigious worldwide startup "tech trailblazer" award.
• Drove technical solution architecture for ZFS and Quality of Service (QoS) based storage, developed an in-house performance sizing tool, and created Centers of Excellence (CoE) for PoC labs.
• Managed OEM relationships (Dell, Stec-HGST), initiated CloudByte's qualification with DataOn Cluster in a Box hardware, and represented CloudByte at industry events like Gartner.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

• High level and low-level technical design (HLD/LLD) and architecture on Storage and Backup on VMware, Linux, and Windows platforms for Managed Services Providers and Cloud Services Providers
• Designed shared/dedicated storage and backup solutions based on EMC Clariion, Celera, VNX, HP LeftHand, MSA, NetApp, and Data-Domain for IOPS, throughput, and capacity based on SATA, SAS, NL-SAS, and Flash (SSD)
• Developed IOPS calculator, introduced iSCSI multi-pathing and innovative solutions to enhance Colt’s product offering

Jun 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

Feb 2007 – Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs