Mar 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Led global product engineering, data science, and ML cloud platform engineering, focusing on strategy, innovation, architecture, and efficiency. Led technical diligence for a successful divestiture of BlackBerry Cybersecurity business to Arctic Wolf.
• Led the data science team to productize 18 new ML models for diverse cyber threat detection, including behavioral, application, document, script, and code AI models.
• Launched Cylance Assistant, a graph RAG based LLM that accelerate security operations decision making. Helps our customers manage better scale of growing security risks.
• Expanded our managed security services platform to support 300+ security vendors telemetry sources.
• Led the modernization of our platform to a cloud-native Kubernetes/Istio architecture, reducing cloud COGS by 54%.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Led the design and architecture of Cylance Gateway, a cloud-native ZTNA/SASE solution that enables secure, high-performance remote work for hybrid organizations
• Developed various machine learning models to tackle dynamic web content prioritization, categorization and inline security detection.
• Developed a strategic technical roadmap and executed a precise plan, guiding a multinational team to achieve a 15% increase in new customer acquisition.
• Migrated & Modernized enterprise cloud services to FedRAMP (il5) in AWS Cloud. This improved COGS efficiency by over 10%
• Received chairman award for this contribution during this period.

Jan 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Scaled BBM consumer messaging to hit 100 million downloads. Led the architecture for developing a new security certified enterprise messaging and collaboration platform for regulated industry.
• Licensed consumer BBM to Emtek via partnership at 207Million. https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/company/newsroom/press-releases/2016/blackberry-and-emtek-forge-partnership-to-accelerate-and-advance-bbm-s-consumer-business-globally
• Improved operational infrastructure cost at scale to be profitable by optimizing, modernizing, and migrating to cloud native in AWS Cloud. This allowed splitting of the technology and infrastructure for licensing.

Feb 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Responsible for the BBM application on (Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Windows Phone)
• Successfully launched BBM messaging application on (Android, BlackBerry,iOS and Windows Phone) that reached 10M subscription in less than 24 hours.
• Architected and led the team to launch monetizable Ads and e-commerce digital store, content monetization platform as new revenue streams within a private mobile social network. This was the first to market private secure social messaging applications.
• http://blogs.blackberry.com/2014/06/bbm-protected/

Nov 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsible for Software Development, Product Conceptualization of consumer applications on BlackBerry devices. These included (BBM, Groups, BBM Music, Blackberry Music Store, BlackBerry Video Store and BlackBerry Media Player) at Research In Motion.
• BBM platform drove over 15% applications downloads that were BBM Connected.
• Augmented reality - Industries first augmented reality based friend finding application, WikiTude -
• http://helpblog.blackberry.com/2011/12/wikitude-set-up/
• http://www.wikitude.com/showcases/blackberry-messenger-augmented-reality

May 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Manage Engineering teams and QA teams for BlackBerry consumer media applications (YouTube, TiVo, Wireless Music Sync, Podcast, and BlackBerry Desktop Manager), In-App purchasing platform, E-Commerce and payment processing for consumer app store.
• Technical adviser on various consumer acquisitions for Research In Motion.

Jan 2007 – May 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Team Lead for BlackBerry consumer applications.
• Led initiatives for various media research projects to enrich the blackberry consumer media platform.
• Led development for BlackBerry MySpace application v1.0.
• Led development for TiVo Application for BlackBerry
• Led development of a completely re-designed and feature rich Facebook application for Blackberry (v1.6).
• Facebook for BlackBerry wins Best Mobile Application Award (2009)
• http://www.whatmobileawards.co.uk/aboutawards/341584/the_2009_award_winners_are.html

Jan 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · On-site

• Developed network content delivery platform for publishing programming guides, on-Demand movies and other video catalogue services.
• Developed Subscription SKU's for various content service packaging, integration with Digital River and other payment processing system

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs

• At Consilient I was responsible for managing design and development of the Consilient Push Server (http://www.consilient.com). The Consilient Push server connects to a multitude of Email/Calendar Servers supporting IMAP, MAPI, G-Wise and POP3 to deliver PUSH J2ME mobile devices.
• Manage development iterations, task distribution, product feature release management, approve design documents, translate MRD to PRD
• Designed and developed highly available, scalable application service protocol connector for (GPRS/1xRTT/CDMA) networks.
• Implemented (PAP) Push Access Protocol for provisioning software wirelessly.
• Designed and implemented RPC over HTTPS client/server architecture to support OMA-DS (a.k.a SyncML) for GPRS/1xRTT devices (BlackBerry, Nokia 6,9 Series).
• Design and develop Push Notification Engine for Consilient Push Server
• Development of Java JNI wrapper for accessing MAPI32 sub-system.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

• At C-CORE my work was with the remote sensing group focusing on High Frequency and Synthetic aperture radars.
• Synthesizing Digital Elevation Models from Satellite Images. (Image processing and 3-d rendering from European Remote Sensing Sattelite-1/2)
• Phase multiplier implementation using TMS320C54x series DSP chipset from TI.
• FFT/IFFT processing of raw multidimensional SAR images.
• Ground movement measurements from satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar data (Differential Interferometry)
• Extracting topographical information from satellite images (digital image processing).
• Satellite Radar Interferometry for estimating 3-D ground movement (InSAR RADARSAT-1)

Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 · 0 mo

• Worked on Nortel passport 6400 switch. Fixing bugs and testing various use cases. Developed code compliance parse engine that could validate standard specification requirements on the switch.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

• As an intern worked on statistical process controllers. Developed a PoC of Constrained Velocity profile Modules with closed loop feedback LMS algorithm for sequential movements of a robotic arm. Used RAPID (similar to C) as the development platform from ABB.