Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Hybrid

• Collaborated with founders and executive teams to develop and refine business strategies, identifying growth opportunities, market trends, partnerships and M& A opporuntiies. My strategic guidance successfully led to the acquisition of a startup by a leading cloud security company.
• Mentored leadership teams, fostering a culture of innovation and resilience while helping to build effective teams and enhance leadership capabilities.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Led product management and marketing for the Calix Service Cloud product portfolio, managing an offering that grew to over 2000 service provider customers and over a million subscribers.
• Calix (CALX) is a leader in delivering cloud services and IoT systems to service providers across the world for over 20 years.
• Owned P & L for Calix Service Cloud product portfolio - $50M SaaS ARR business with 200% YoY growth & 200 net new customers in FY 2021-22. Awarded 2022 TMC “Customer Product of the Year”.
• Delivered industry first Quality of Experience Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solution to reduce service call resolution time by 50%. Awarded CETS 2022 Best in Class innovative solution.
• Lead team of product managers and designers focused on improving the subscribers IoT experience.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Product management strategy and execution for F5’s Identity and application services and security products serving 10,000 enterprise and public sector customers.
• F5 is a leader in delivering cloud applications services and cybersecurity solutions for over 20 years across all verticals.
• Managed $200M P&L for F5's security portfolio, including application and API security and Identity & Access Management products. Achieved triple-digit YoY subscription ARR growth.
• Built the security product management team from ground up and collaboratively led the team of product managers and owners to deliver on application and security initiatives.
• Launched machine learning (AI) based SaaS security analytics and anomaly detection solution for risk-based access and to prevent abuse; drove 10x customer growth in 1st year.
• Led M&A efforts alongside Corporate Strategy, driving competitive analysis, financial modeling, and the evaluation of cloud security and application services targets for F5 acquisitions.
• Launched strategic partnership between F5 and Microsoft (Azure AD) and drove Go-To-Market focused on migration to cloud (AWS, Azure); grew adoption by 300% YoY.
• Drove SaaS cloud-native IAM security strategy, enabling secure remote access to corporate applications across mobile and desktop. Delivered innovative privileged access management security solution, achieving double-digit ARR growth in its first year.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Launched machine learning (AI) based security analytics and anomaly detection solution for risk-based access and to prevent abuse; drove 10x customer growth in 1st year.
• Drove security and privacy compliance with regulatory standards – FIPS, Common Criteria, PCI, FedRAMP, GDPR.
• Collaborated with Business Development to successfully launch Go-To-Market (GTM) programs with several partners – Ping Identity, Okta, VMware and Splunk.
• Delivered engaging product briefings and demo to Fortune 500 customers, partners and sales teams

Oct 2008 – Oct 2014 · 6 yrs · California, United States

• Technical product management and software architecture development for Cloud and Data Center business unit’s virtualized port-channel (MC-LAG) technology.
• Delivered prescriptive and differentiated marketing collateral including technical designs, webinars, product demonstrations and case studies across family of Nexus switching and cloud products
• Drove pre-sales engagements to generate new leads and technical requirements for cloud design initiatives.
• Scoped requirements and designed interface for the One Platform Kit (OnePK) platform statistics counters management. The project included driving requirements across business and technical teams in different business units. OnePK is a part of Cisco’s SDN initiative.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Good Technology was a pioneering startup in delivering simple and secure enterprise mobile applications. Acquired by Blackberry.
• Software development for mobile email SaaS security product serving more than 2000 enterprise customers
• Designed mobile email security application with intuitive user interface and end-to-end encryption for secure messaging and collaboration. Generated $20 M ARR and won the best security software award.
• Successfully led team of developers in India for application security management feature enhancement & integration
• Four issued patents for simplified user-interface UI and mobile email security architecture.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

• Led research on optical and wireless adhoc networks. Research led to renewal of research funding from Intel Corporation.
• Published the research in IEEE credited journals. Delivered optical networking research at IEEE conferences.