Sep 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Owned end-to-end product development, GTM, and customer success for Spinnaker & Argo product suite, delivering $12M in revenue from marquee clients (Google, Apple, Salesforce, etc.).
• Led SaaS transformation, scaling operations (onboarding, billing, SRE) for cloud-native delivery.
• Built Spinnaker Center of Excellence; delivered 80+ OSS features and drove community contributions.
• Set up InfoSec function, achieving SOC2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications.
• Integrated 13+ DevSecOps tools, embedding security-by-design in the software supply chain.

Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana

• Defined product vision, roadmap, and execution for innovative SaaS offerings.
• Secured stakeholder buy-in through investor demos, prototypes, and product documentation.
• Delivered multiple PoCs and prototypes validating market feasibility and securing funding.

Apr 2013 – Jun 2019 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Setup enterprise DevOps CoE, onboarding 1,000+ applications and reducing deployment effort by 95%, and deployment error by 98%.
• Migrated 400+ applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, saving $3M+ in infrastructure costs.
• Introduced SRE practices enterprise-wide, improving MTTR by 80% and MTTA by 90%.
• Drove patent innovation programs, resulting in 56+ patents filed, of which about 18 approved.

Nov 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Setup & lead global technical operations group, including CI/CD, Release Mgmt, IT Ops, DC Ops and SecOps.
• Instrumental in achieving PCI & ISO 27001 compliance for the payment gateway SaaS product.
• Build & maintain BCP/DR sites, safeguarding mission-critical financial systems. Setting the bar for 24x7 uptime, and disaster recovery readiness.

Apr 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Heading end-to-end release management for multiple enterprise products including MWM, MDM, SGG, and CCB, ensuring high-quality, timely, and consistent product releases aligned planned business objectives.
• Managed a team of high-performing Build & Release Engineers, responsible for automating build, deployment, and release processes across multiple environments.
• Handled L3 product support, triaging complex issues and coordinating with L1/L2 support teams to ensure timely resolution; drove 40% reduction in Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).

Apr 2007 – Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Lead the build & automation engineering team within RxD group, MSIT. Achieved 95% reduction in deployment duration and 98% reduction in deployment/configuration errors through full automation of the deployment lifecycle.
• Instrumental in the design and rollout of a self-service based test environment provisioning application. Built on the virtualization technology, it enables dynamic, on-demand creation of test environments using VM templates. This led to 99% time reduction in provisioning test environments, significantly accelerating testing cycles and enhancing developer productivity.
• Introduced self service ticketing system for managing build, deployment & test environment related issues and a self-service portal for provisioning automated time-bound bubble test environments for the engineering teams.

Dec 2000 – Mar 2007 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of VisualSoft OfficeSecure product, an MS Office add-on providing encryption, decryption, and digital signing for Word, Excel, and Outlook email content.
• Developed Device Drivers for set-top boxes and USB devices, and participated in the development of SNMP agent software, ensuring integration with enterprise network management systems.
• Managed enterprise software configuration management team, defined SCM policies, standards, and procedures, and conducted org-wide SCM training and awareness boot camps. Actively participated in CMM, ISO, and CMMi audits for SCM.