Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs · Palo Alto, California

Oct 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Jose, California

• Had a lot of fun taking Hyperflex to over 4000+ Enterprise Customers and generated $500MM+/year revenue.
• delivered newer products: hyperv support, hyperflex edge, stretched cluster and several other products.
• Boot strapped the idea of using K8S to manage VMs(using KubeVirt) and Containers to take enterprise through VMs to containers journey.
• Interactions with other BUs on technology and product integrations

Mar 2015 – Present · 11 yrs · Sunnyvale, California

• Exits:
• cloudknox.io (Microsoft), Fylamynt (NetApp), ArmorBlox (cisco), zycada (panw), Macheye (verint), Netspring.io (Optimizely), peritus.ai(X), inference.io(X)
• In Play:
• Eltropy, Flam, Constructor.ai, Kloudspot, Metadata.io, Akuity, Bicycle.io, Deepfence.io, FINIX,Savant Labs, Signalwire, Torpago.

May 2012 – Sep 2017 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Sunnyvale, California

• Served as CEO (2012-2015) and CTO and grew the team to 140 people from top companies in the valley.
• Took the company through an Acquisition by CISCO ($320M).
• Led the company through three rounds of funding from Top VCs (Sequoia, NEA, Redpoint and CISCO) and Strategic OEM Partnership from CISCO.
• Produced innovative products across 7 years and created leadership in the HCI category as CISCO Hyperflex.
• Launched the company in 2015 ( Analysts, Press meetings including coverage from WSJ), its vision and 1.0 product with quality and customer base.
• Launched "Coming out of stealth" at VMworld 2015 with Series "C" investment and OEM agreement from CISCO.
• Hosted TechField Day to evangelize the product/technology
• Built the initial sales, marketing teams.
• Ran Finance, operations in the early days and built teams later on

Sep 2002 – Apr 2012 · 9 yrs 7 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Early member of core vSphere/ESX kernel team - (vSphere 1.0 to 5.0)
• Overall Architect for all vSphere Networking (including vShield products). Responsibilities include leading the team towards the design/development of core features: vswitch, NIC emulations, logical overlay [VXLAN] , routing, stitching, and traffic optimization. These technologies are aimed at radically changing the way networks are viewed and used in the data center and is part of Software Driven Networking initiative at VMware. Worked closely with executives on the strategy as well as interacting with top level engineering folks at leading networking companies towards driving the vision and the the alignment with VMware.
• Architect/Lead for the team that worked on productizing HW Assisted IO virtualization [branded under VMDirectPath and VMDirectPath/SR-IOV]. Scope involves design, prototyping concepts, writing key modules and built the team to work on the productization. Engaged with partners on the HW/SW interactions such as BIOS, SR-IOV, PCIe, Interrupt virtualization, VT-x, VT-d, AMDIommu, etc.,].
• Made a significant contribution towards architectural changes and implementations of the core vSphere networking stack especially around improving networking performance.
• Designed and Implemented TCP/IP offload for Windows/Linux VMs
• Designed and Implemented SCSI emulation (LSI 53C1030 chip) for vSphere
• Implemented storage IO to be asynchronous to exploit parallelism for multicore platforms. Handled storage related issues especially around dealing with backup/tape devices.
• Served the role of "IO Guru" for interactions with several networking and storage partners and VMware customers.
• Worked closely to productize first VoIP gateway running on vSphere
• Primary PCI SR-IOV SIG rep. from VMware and co-authored PCI SRIOV specification
• Primary author of an IETF draft on VXLAN
• Architecture Review Board member.
• Reviewing Patent applications

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs · Palo Alto, California

• Architected and Implemented TCP/IP offload support for windows OS [long before Chimney was implemented]. The result of the work later on was standardized under I2O Socket Class WG.
• Ported the functionality to Linux to implement iSCSI offload [it was then called NetSCSI].
• Was part of a team that architected and implemented a distributed file system called DiFFS which was based on NFS that implements single global namespace by de-coupling meta-data and data to achieve level scalability that was not attained before.
• Worked as part of the team that implemented replicated [eventual consistency based] distributed file system called Pangaea.
• Spent a significant time working on data placement algorithms, simulation and P2P systems.

Jan 1995 – Jan 1998 · 3 yrs · Milpitas, California

• Reported to the Chief Scientist.
• Architected and Implemented [single handedly] first PCI Hot plug technology for Netware with out even relying on single line of code support from Novell and shipped a product long before even Novell grasped the technology. Implementations were mostly done by reverse engineering several OS functionalities. In addition wrote the entire platform support including controlling the fans, power to slots, Text based GUI, etc.,
• Implemented NIC teaming solution for windows and Netware OS without any support from either of the OS companies. The technology was later on sold to 3Com.
• Wrote SMP platform specific module for custom HW that NetFRAME built.
• Optimized the LAN driver for Netware OS running on Netframe x86 servers.
• Worked on several system components of the Netframe SW stack

Jan 1994 – Jan 1995 · 1 yr · Hillsboro, Oregon

• Primary engineer responsible for the development of transport module for backup engines [built on top of IPX/SPX]
• Helped with the implementation of branch office side of the backup engine
• Worked on address various customer related issues on the backup product [StorageExpress]

Jan 1992 – Jan 1994 · 2 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Part of the team that Implemented a complete TCP/IP suite on DOS.
• Implemented DOS based ODI Driver for TCP/IP stack that HCL-HP developed
• Worked on hooking up TCP/IP stack [TSR] to ODI and NDIS layers
• Responsible for making different forms of socket libraries working
• Part of two people team that Implemented NFS client with client side file caching and DNLC
• Gave technical presentations [pre-sales] to HCL customers.

Jan 1991 – Jan 1992 · 1 yr · Kanpur

• Part of the research team that built first internet in India [ERNET] and conducted research on the infrastructure
• Implemented x86 based Ethernet Bridge using Western Digital NICs and Intel NICs. The software was successfully deployed in the campus and used by many departments
• Designed the circuit layout for in house developed Ethernet Repeater
• Implemented low level packet generators for stressing the networking SW/HW