Oct 2017 – Jul 2025 · 7 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• May 2019 - July 2025 - Director / Head of Engineering - Google Cloud Spanner.
• Oct 2017 - May 2019 - Head of Engineering / co-founder OpenTelemetry
• Defined and executed a multi-year roadmap for Spanner, growing revenue by 10x and scaling the organization from 10 to 200+ engineers across 5 global locations.
• Led the design, development, and scaling of Spanner, achieving unprecedented growth to support 4B+ queries per second across 11+ exabytes of data, ensuring 99.999% uptime reliability.
• Expanded Spanner from a strongly consistent relational database to a multi-model database by launching Graph, Key Value, Text Search, and Vector search, resulting in a xx% increase in user adoption.
• Secured XXB$ in revenue for Google Cloud by closing strategic Spanner deals with major enterprise customers, emphasizing its value as a core database solution.
• Increased Spanner's visibility and reach through strategic content creation, including blog posts, podcasts, and presentations at key industry events like Google NEXT.
• Co-founded OpenTelemetry, now one of the world's largest open-source projects, transforming the observability market and driving adoption of standardized telemetry data, enabling interoperability between various tools. Led collaboration and execution across major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Lightstep, and Splunk.
• Won multiple Feats of Engineering awards for Engineering & Product innovation and excellence work across Google

Oct 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Head of Engineering for Lookout’s flagship Enterprise Security product line, contributing to a sustained 50%+ quarterly revenue growth through customer-driven innovation and product delivery.
• Spearheaded strategic migration of Lookout’s security pipeline to AWS, architecting a highly scalable Security-as-a-Service platform that increased operational efficiency, reduced costs by 25%, and boosted performance by 30%.
• Spearheaded key architectural improvements that delivered a 25% reduction in cloud costs, a 30% improvement in response times, and a 3x increase in analysis speed.
• Built a distributed platform that serves security intel for 45M+ Apps to 100M+ sensors.
• Established a high-performing leadership team and mentored engineering managers and individual contributors, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and rapid growth.

Jan 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Incubated Cisco's Connected Mobile Experiences portfolio (IoT, analytics, and engagement solutions), establishing a new 100+ person global engineering organization focused on network, business, and IoT analytics.
• Led the design, development, and delivery of the Mobility Services Engine (CMX) solution, providing thought leadership, driving innovation, and fostering a culture of customer engagement.
• Played a key role in the acquisition of ThinkSmart Technologies, an analytics startup, contributing to due diligence, product integration, and market expansion.
• Delivered a new SaaS analytics platform, leveraging Cassandra, Redis, AngularJS, HTML5, PostgreSQL, and RESTful APIs to achieve horizontal scalability, multi-tenancy, and high availability.
• More about my team and culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9esmJhAkp0&feature=youtu.be

Oct 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Managed a development team of 15+ top-notch engineers and interns (on-site and remote). Responsibilities included recruiting, coaching, motivating, retaining, task prioritization, annual performance reviews, budgeting, etc.
• Partnered with product management on roadmap planning, feature adaptation strategy, go to market strategy, translation of customer requirements into product features, etc.
• Implemented several software development processes (including test driven development, Agile, etc), which enabled the team to ship quality products on schedule
• Directly responsible for shipping Performance Routing and Medianet Performance Monitoring solution on Cisco Cat6k, Cat3k, Cat4k, ASR1K and ISR platforms
• Directly engaged Cisco technical marketing, field, sales, training and support organizations to ensure success of the products I was responsible for. This resulted in more than 5x feature adaptation in 2 years.

Oct 2009 – Oct 2010 · 1 yr

• Cisco IOS – PfR (Performance based Application Routing)
• Architected, designed and implemented Cisco PfR on multiple Cisco Product lines
• Cisco IOS – Bidrectional Forwarding Detection
• Designed and Implemented BFD on IOS 7200, 7600, and distributed GSR routers.
• Cisco IOS - Netflow
• Designed and implemented several key NetFlow features including sub-interface support, MQC based NetFlow, etc.

Jan 2002 – Oct 2009 · 7 yrs 9 mos