Oct 2023 – May 2024 · 7 mos

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Feb 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• Product Vision, Strategy & Roadmap | Security and AI
• Scaled global teams from 10 to 100+ across 4 regions, ensuring alignment and efficiency to deliver secure, AI-driven security solutions for enterprise clients, with a focus on scalable, multi-cloud platforms.
• Drove revenue growth by launching AI-powered products that are globally scalable and focusing on upselling existing customers, ensuring reliable performance and enhancing product quality across distributed cloud environments, resulting in improved customer retention.
• Accelerated product roadmap delivery using Machine Learning to improve product quality, increase development velocity and drive growth while maintaining security and compliance in highly regulated environments.

Oct 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• ➤ Accomplished revenue growth by scaling team from #26 to #200+ across 2 geographies – India and USA
• ➤ Arkin acquired by VMware in 2016
• ➤ Team: 14 Direct & 200+ Total | Mergers & Acquisitions | Product Integration and Launch
• As a Sr Director – Research & Development (R&D), I was expected to lead the R&D team and scale the team to build enterprise ready product. I collaborated with the VMware’s Network & Security Business Unit to provide customers a truly integrated approach to next-generation cloud management.
• ✪ DELIVERED RESULTS:
• ➤ Added incremental revenues to the business. Spearheaded merger and acquisition of Veriflow that positioned VMware in the Gartner coordinate for network intent verification and analytics.
• ➤ Improved efficiency, reduced costs, enhanced security, and optimized overall performance by introducing AI/ML to troubleshoot outages occurring on-premises and in the cloud.
• ➤ Conceptualized a cohesive architecture for SaaS services by collaborating with different business units.
• ➤ Executive sponsor for key strategic accounts.
• ➤ Led the merger and acquisition of Cloud Chomp that enabled VMware for cloud monitoring service.

Jun 2016 – Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Arkin acquired by VMware in 2016
• Leading R&D, Product Design UX & Management for vRNI, an industry leader in Cloud Networking & Security (SDN).
• Director R&D, heading engineering for one of fastest-growing BU

Mar 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Arkin acquired by VMware.
• Delivered Arkin product in fast paced agile environment exceeding customer requirements aggressively.
• Worked with co-founders, marketing for Arkin’s vision, executed it into a tangible and meaningful product.
• Scaled technology investments, frameworks (technical, execution) for agility of Arkin’s business and innovations.
• Hired and built top-notch team of engineers, UX designers
• Owned learning from customer activities, customer success.
• Designed and led projects for business intelligence analysis, reporting and data collection.
• NSX, SDDN, SDDC, SaaS, Samza, Kafka, Elastic Search, HBase, Postgres, React, D3.js

Sep 2009 – Mar 2014 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Frontrange acquired by Ivanti.
• ➤ Increased revenue by working with the CEO and CTO to define the strategy and the adoption for the SaaS ITSM product
• ➤ Team: 8 Direct & 48+ Total | Revenue Growth | Scalability | Customer Experience
• Being recruited as a Chief Architect, I transitioned the on-premise solution to SaaS. Later, promoted as the Senior Engineering Manager, I led the product and the engineering for the SaaS ITSM product.
• ✪ DELIVERED RESULTS:
• ➣Reduced cost by transitioning to SaaS. Built a high-performance team of skilled professionals across USA, Ukraine, Vietnam, and China to build the product in line with the business goals.
• ➣Added to business revenues by strategizing integration of legacy license management solution to the ITSM product while ensuring that it is SaaS ready.
• ➣Increased the number of customers by collaborating with business partners to build the self-serve flow that enables the prospect to sign up and use the product with the minimal help.

Jul 2007 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

• DBO2 acquired by Industrial Scientific
• Spearheaded the engineering of SafetyNet, company’s most critical enterprise application on mobile
• Created development processes, institutionalized Agile software development with Scrum.
• Led engineering and design for Blackberry Mobile App.
• Java, YUI, SQL Server, Blackberry

Jan 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Established a team of five full-time engineers, responsible for developing and maintaining the social networking/content management site, in addition to a deep set of internal tools supporting the business.
• Managed complete revamp of primary social networking site
• Rewarded with Employee of Quarter for introducing Agile methodologies for application development resulting in effective development over time and more revenue.
• Java, J2EE, Struts, spring, Validator Framework, Hibernate, MySQL, Servlets, JSP, Tiles, AJAX, JavaScript, Prototype.js, JSON, JUnit, Jakarta Ant, Log4j, HTML, CSS, Windows XP, Linux, Tomcat.

Dec 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Siemens L&A is market leaders in logistics and assembly systems.
• Delivered multi-year product for baggage handling system, innovated process validation tools
• Resolved project issues which had been preventing release of project to client for two years.
• Invented tool that allowed management to prove project success, resulting in recognition and reward from manager.
• Paced operations and development for handover of project.
• Coded extensively using Struts, J2EE technologies and different kinds of Action classes based on the requirements of the respective modules.
• Unit Testing, identifying and resolving issues.
• Technologies:
• Java, J2EE, Struts, JDBC, Oracle, Sybase, Servlets, JSP, Tiles, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jakarta Ant, JUnit, Log4j, Windows Server2000, Tomcat.

Jul 2002 – Dec 2003 · 1 yr 5 mos

• RMSI is one of the leading geographical information system organizations.
• ObjectARX for AutoCAD for GIS processing to replace LISP.
• Implemented middleware application DLLs for image processing and data processing
• Requirement-gathering, Knowledge acquisition, creating UI-specifications, creating HLD, creating project- plans.
• Technologies:
• C++, VC++ MFC, SQL Server 7.0, LISP, ObjectARX, VB6, MapInfo, Windows NT.

Jan 2002 – Jun 2002 · 5 mos

• BARC is India’s premier research institute.
• Singly led project for motion controller system used to detect usage for mercury level in reactor.
• Awarded “Certificate of appreciation” by division head for successful accomplishment ahead of deadline.
• Solely Architected and designed the whole system under supervision.
• Technologies:
• VB 6.0, VSS, Motion Controller Software.

Apr 2000 – Nov 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos

• • Responsible for system design and application development.