Nilay Parikh

Associate Partner

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led global customer success initiatives at Arista Networks.
  • Pioneered customer success vertical enhancing operational success.
  • Expert in network engineering and customer experience strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Network Engineering and Customer Success leader in the SaaS industry.

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Experience

Arista networks

6 roles

Director of Customer Success

Promoted

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Leading WW Customer Success, with a focus on post-sales strategy and driving customer experience for Cloud/Hyperscaler accounts.

Senior Manager Technical Services

Promoted

Jan 2022Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Heading the Customer Success team, a high-performing global team with these groups:
  • Customer Success Leads for Hyperscalers and Cloud/AI
  • Technical Leads for Services
  • Escalation Managers for Enterprise
  • Focus was on post-sales strategy and leadership, and kickstarting new service offerings in the Customer Experience and Customer Success realms.

Manager of Customer Success

Jan 2020Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

  • In parallel to Escalation Management, piloted the Customer Success vertical within the Arista Technical Services team.
  • Customer Success Lead (CSL) for Arista’s largest customer - being a single point of contact for all operational and post-sales engagements with the mission to enhance customer experience and being dedicated to the customer’s technical and operational success.
  • Primary focus was defining the role, building the team, and productizing this service.

Escalation Manager

Promoted

Jun 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Leading at a global level in all escalating customer situations and ensuring that all relevant Arista resources are engaged and coordinated. For highly escalated situations with business impact, leading executive communications, root cause analysis, while ensuring consistent messaging with Engineering and Product teams.
  • Focus on driving product quality and data-driven proactive engagement for escalation avoidance. Led aspects of case/escalation management through strategy initiatives/execution and working closely with TAC leadership in this process.

Technical Solutions Engineer

May 2014Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Supported all of Arista’s product portfolio and the entire suite of network protocols and feature set covered by EOS, including leading on the customer-facing communication and periodic interaction with engineering teams. The focus of troubleshooting and technical solutions is across the TCP/IP stack, including design and deployment projects for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Worked closely with members of the wider Customer Engineering team, including Sales, as well as both Software and Hardware development, both in diagnosing problems as well as leading communication and technical debugging.

Network Engineering Intern

May 2013Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, California

  • Technical Solutions Engineering and POC (Proof-of-Concept) testing.
  • Focus on datacenter architecture, advanced switching concepts, and network troubleshooting.

University of colorado boulder

Student Consultant

Sep 2012May 2013 · 8 mos · Boulder, Colorado

  • Consultant for the Office of International Admissions working towards the outreach to International students for admission to CU Boulder.
  • The point of contact of incoming undergraduate international students and liaison between the applicants and admissions committee. Also focused on Data Analysis for the undergraduate admissions wing.

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Master's degree — Computer Networks and Telecommunications

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Gujarat Technological University

Bachelor's degree — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Ingraham High School

High School (Junior Year)

Jan 2005Jan 2006

A. G. High School

High School

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