Sep 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Build and lead the engineering team at Solo.io of 50+ engineers, delivering an integrated cloud-native API Gateway and service mesh platform, contributing to continuous YoY revenue growth.
• Partnered with leadership team to lead product strategy and technology roadmap.
• Developed sustainable processes in the engineering organization leading to increased accountability/quality, efficiency and rapid rate of innovation.
• Implemented innovative solutions and practices to improve development experience while lowering operational costs (e.g CI and cloud)
• Coached leaders within the engineering organization by creating performance review process/professional development plans attributing to the highest retention rate within Solo.io.
• Collaborated with GTM teams to close several marquee accounts in finance, service provider, insurance and technology sectors across various regions.
• Led architecture discussions and facilitating adoption of our products in some of the largest gateway and service mesh installations in the industry.
• Led open source Istio community as Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) member and frequent presenter at several conferences.

Oct 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Co-founded Aspen Mesh (an F5 incubation) to deliver a service mesh platform build on Open Source Istio to simplify Microservices adoption for enterprises.

Oct 2017 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Co-founded the Aspen Mesh incubation within F5 Networks. Architected and implemented the first version of Aspen Mesh product and SaaS platform.

Oct 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Worked as a senior member of the next Generation Product Development Team.
• Architected the next generation product focused on containerized workloads in the Marathon/Kubernetes environment.
• Architected and led the team which built a lightweight proxy in Node.js for containerized microservices. * Designed and implemented an innovative health monitoring solution with zero co-ordination and reduced network traffic.
• Built the early version of Kubernetes & Marathon F5 BigIP Ingress Controllers.

Nov 2013 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Worked in the Linerate Product Development Team:
• Worked on various features and performance enhancements for Linerate Application Delivery Controller (ADC).
• Designed and implemented a Node.js module for extending dynamic configurability of scriptable data-path.
• Implemented functionality for Secure Shell (SSH) proxy as Node.js module.
• Added support for upgrading system and root certificates used in scriptable data-path.
• Upgraded compiler (C++ 11) and boost library used by the product resulting in performance enhancements.

Sep 2017 – Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Boulder, CO · On-site

• Co-founded Aspen Mesh, an F5 Incubation, to deliver an Enterprise Service Mesh platform built on Open Source Istio.
• Collaborated across business functions to create the Aspen Mesh vision, strategy and brand messaging.
• Worked with early-stage customers to understand their use case, drive product vision and roadmap.
• Responsible for building and growing the engineering team from ground-up to an efficient self-sufficient organization.
• Architected and built Aspen Mesh Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform and policy/analytics framework to simplify microservices adoption & management for our users.
• Responsible for closing several large enterprise customers across different industries like service providers and banking.
• Led the open source initiative at Aspen Mesh and F5 by driving contributions and leadership in cloud-native communities like Istio and Cortex.
• Held technical leadership roles in the Istio community as the first non-founding Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and Steering Committee member.
• Contributed to technical marketing by writing various blogs and presenting in several meetups, webinars and international conferences.

Jun 2013 – Nov 2013 · 5 mos · Boulder, CO

• Build and lead the operating systems team focussed on porting the Linux Kernel for a new processor architecture. Architected and implemented the memory management layer of the Kernel for the new architecture. Worked on initial start up sequence of the Kernel and debugged issues related to Kernel boot up and initial thread/process creation.

Feb 2013 – Jun 2013 · 4 mos · Boulder, CO

• Build the LLVM compiler infrastructure for a new processor architecture. Responsibilities included implementing the LLVM target lowering for various instructions. Created test-suites and build a regression suite for verifying the functionalities of the compiler. Debugged and fixed the failing test cases at various stages of the compiler tool chain by fixing or implementing the missing features.

Apr 2012 – Feb 2013 · 10 mos

• Developed and optimized various physical layer (Layer 7) algorithms. Worked on Timing Advance, Automatic Gain Control and resolving system integration issues related to physical layer.

May 2011 – Mar 2012 · 10 mos

• Designed and implemented Medium Access Layer (MAC) protocol xMAC used in xMAX systems 2.0. Designed Link Level Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) for low bandwidth systems. Architected and developed dynamic resource allocation algorithm on Base Station MAC. Designed and implemented handoff and keep-alive algorithm between end Devices and Base Stations. Integrated various layers of network stack and performed end to end system analysis.

Feb 2011 – Jun 2011 · 4 mos

• Worked in Clinical & Translational Research Informatics Program as a part time software developer for providing secure information solutions for health researches.
• Developed secure web applications using CakePHP framework, JavaScript, MySQL and HTML technologies.

Jun 2010 – Dec 2010 · 6 mos

• Worked in the Wireless Protocols Team developing proprietary MAC layer protocol xMAC used in xMAX mobile communication system. Derived the average latency and collisions in Contention Based Access slots during fully loaded traffic. Implemented dynamic time diversity in the MAC layer on handsets and Base stations. Designed a remote logging mechanism for collecting debug messages from handsets via the network for troubleshooting.

Jul 2008 – Dec 2008 · 5 mos

• Worked on Modeling A Programmable Radio Transceiver for Accurate and Detailed Analysis of Radio Impairments on Communication System Performance. The impairments in each block of the transceiver like Phase Noise in Mixer, Non-Linearity due to IIP2/IIP3 in amplifiers, Flicker Noise and IQ cross talk were modeled in details.

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

• Worked on the magnet identification project to find the stronger side of magnet. Created a LabView Virtual Instrument (VI) for programmable power supplies and switching matrix. Made Equivalent Series Meter and Testing fixtures for MOSFETS and Opto-couplers.