Sep 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Led the integration and transformation of two public cybersecurity companies with overlapping product portfolios into a unified B2B SaaS Cybersecurity portfolio at hyper-scale (1000+ engineers) across Endpoint Security, Data Security (DLP), SecOps/XDR/NG-SIEM, Email Security and Network Security.
• o Shaped market perception through deep engagement with industry analysts, press, and enterprise customers and drove sales pipeline.
• o Led targeted initiatives to reduce customer churn while bringing new capabilities to the market.
• o Balanced work on platform modernization with new initiatives.
• o Launched a zero-prompt Agentic Gen-AI to create 5x acceleration in alert management.
• o Spearheaded re-architecture, development and deployment of data platform (many PBs) to reduce cloud COGs

May 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• The Platform Services team was the primary team for Federal and Government Business and for the transformation of VMware to a multi-cloud platform through common platform services across VMware products. The central platform team worked directly with stakeholders to align technology platform with business objectives. Beyond engineering, the team also led product management efforts—collaborating with the business to define and deliver shared platforms for Cloud, SaaS, AI/ML, Data Platforms, DevOps, Security, Compliance, and Privacy.

May 2017 – May 2021 · 4 yrs

• Boosted multi-product adoption by leading cloud transformation from on-prem to subscription SaaS. Created a best-of-suite portfolio of SaaS products as peers for On-Prem products. The cloud produces were built with consistent AI, backend data systems, event taxonomy, UI/UX, try-buy flows, AI, Backend, Observability and Scaling while reducing cloud costs. This Kubernetes first stack was deployed to AWS, On-Prem, and GCP.
• Developed a unified platform to power AI/ML, cross-product detection, remediation and policy management.
• Launched cloud-based security products as counterparts to on-prem products to future-proof revenue.
• Optimized cloud costs (> 30%) through Kubernetes-first architecture and shared platform re-engineering.

Jan 2014 – May 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Delivered a transformative eCommerce platform for Symantec Consumer Security, leveraging in-house technologies to achieve a significant reduction in vendor fees and increased online sales (~15%)
• Developed a billing and payments system, with flexible extensions for business outcome.
• Architected separation of code and content to power marketing agility.
• Led an API first approach for consistent omni-channel experience across Web, Mobile and thick client.
• This platform empowered marketers with robust analytics to measure and optimize the performance of SEO, SEM, affiliate, and direct marketing campaigns

Mar 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for re-building the entire Supply Chain platform for 10X scale owned inventory business in addition to a 2-sided marketplace and all this during exponential growth. Supply Chain spans - Logistics (with both 3PL and owned logistics - inbound and outbound), Warehouse Management, Financial Accounting, Fulfillment Optimization and Customer Experience Products.

Jan 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco

• Responsible for Twitter's User Growth. Effort spanned across every aspect of Twitter from FrontEnd cosmetic changes to backend machine learning - targeting user cohorts and studying for statistically significant uplift. This was a brand new interaction model with every other team in the company. The team had complimentary skill-sets across gamification, machine learning, statisticians, lawyers, front-end engineers, search engineers to backend developers. We unlocked more than 20x as many concurrent experiments on micro-slices of Twitter traffic using a home grown experimentation platform.

Jan 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Built a complete Datawarehouse Platform including engineering and customer success (solutions engineering). The platform was built ground-up on Google Technologies (MapReduce, Dremel, GFS) a Query Engine (incl optimizer), ETL pipeline, and reporting. Customer success included turning, result tuning, new approximate computation syntax and supporting adoption in every region. This won Google Sublinear Award and Google Ads Engineering Accomplishment award for 2010

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• Moneta Engine is the Billing and Payment Engine for all of Google (Adwords, Adsense, Checkout, Youtube, Doubleclick...). This is orders of magnitude more micro-payments than anyone else on the planet - the entire internet is a payment machine. The common engine enables user risk scores to be shared across Google properties, aggregated settlement across multiple Google properties.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for the core EJB and Web Containers. Established offshore centers in Bangalore and Beijing. Interfaced for WebLogic Server with rest of the ecosystem WebLogic Integration, WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Workshop to ensure success of the platform built atop the core server.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs

• Tech lead worked on EJB Containers, CORBA and IIOP, High Availability Systems in OC4J and previous Oracle IAS.