Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Nov 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

• Led a team of 4 engineers and 1 senior engineering manager (with 10 direct reports) for driving the execution of cross-organizational cloud platform initiatives, defining technical roadmaps and OKRs.
• CAS (Citrix Analytics Service: AI/ML platform): Led the development of the Kubeflow AI platform, integrated into Citrix's AI offering, aligning with key OKRs to expand Citrix’s AI portfolio and drive significant revenue growth in 2022.
• SDWAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network)
• Led SD-WAN cloud and network architecture changes in AWS, optimizing scalability and COGS through Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Relational Database Service (RDS) and disaster recovery strategies (RTO, RPO), aligned with key OKRs to improve operational efficiency by 35%.
• NGS (Network Gateway Service)
• Defined and drove the long-term roadmap for modern cloud architecture at NGS, leading initiatives aligned with key OKRs to enhance scalability, collaboration, and business outcomes.
• Led the design and implementation of NKS (Netscaler Kubernetes Service) on Azure PaaS, mentoring the team to ensure successful adoption of Kubernetes architecture principles and driving measurable improvements in cloud infrastructure performance.
• KRS (Key Registration Service)
• Led the KRS team in architecting and deploying a high-availability AWS cloud solution aligned with key OKRs to ensure fault isolation and system resilience. Designed and implemented RDS with multi-zone replication, 7-day backups, and 5-minute log retention, significantly enhancing data reliability and meeting business continuity objectives from multiple days to RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of 40 minutes, RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 15 minutes resulting in service SLA (99.99%) per year.
• UCE (Unified Cloud Engineering): Led the design and development of Citrix Kubernetes Service (CKS), a Kubernetes PaaS deployed across Azure zones, aligned with key OKRs to enable scalable, production-ready solutions for Citrix products.

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Jose, California, United States

• - Integrated Azure Active Directory Federation Systems of Adobe with enterprise customers (e.g., Goldman Sachs, DDB Worldwide), enabling 100% seamless Named User Deployment.

Aug 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Led a team of 14 engineers in re-architecting monolithic services into a service-oriented architecture, delivering KPI-driven analytics platforms for customers such as Tory Burch. Enabled processing of large-scale customer engagement data, optimizing advertising budget allocation across channels, resulting in a 7% increase in sales impact (MoM).
• Architected and led the design of scalable container orchestration solutions, including Docker and SWARM underlays, fault-tolerant scheduling algorithms, SaaS deployments, driving operational efficiency and production readiness for Apcera cloud platform for Siemens and other customers resulting in adoption of Apcera as the cloud platform for Siemens.

Jan 2013 – May 2021 · 8 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• TiEcon is one of the largest technology conferences in the world spanning across 15+ countries. This year (2021) there were 30,000+ attendees, 200+ speakers across 10 tracks. Prominent speakers in the past have been Elon Musk, Larry Page (Co-Founder, Google) and Satya Nadella (CEO, Microsoft).
• Responsibilities spanning all the track logistics in TiEcon (https://www.tiecon.org/). Managed a team of 10 track managers (each with 3 reports) working cross functional with marketing, sponsorship and some aspects of programs. The tracks in TiEcon 2021 included the following:
• AI/ML
• Cloud & Security
• Entrepreneurship
• Future of Work
• Global Connect
• Healthcare Reimagined
• TiE Youth
• Diversity & Inclusion
• CXO Forum
• Social Impact

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale, California, United States

• - Designed and developed IoT backend infrastructure on AWS, enabling secure device diagnostics, remote management, and real-time operations via web sockets and a distributed Action Engine. Implemented distributed log gathering, analytics for KPIs (e.g., network stability and response time), and scalable rule-based processing for data-driven actions across mobile devices, hubs, and sensors.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Menlo Park, California, United States

• - Designed developed features for synchronization of data across different compute environments.

Oct 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Jose, CA

• Invented policy-driven redundant fabric placement for virtual data centers, recognized among Cisco’s Top 3 Cloud Innovations.
• Designed a cloud resource manager and contributed to OpenStack VM placement algorithms, shaping Cisco’s cloud strategy.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · Redmond, WA

• Designed and developed Complex Event Processing (StreamInsight) explicit server for processing Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) data from nodes of datacenter, in C#.
• Designed and developed scheduling algorithms for scheduling computations in large scale distributed systems - Azure Scheduler.
• Designed and developed the heuristic and optimization framework algorithms for the tier splitting decision, in C#.
• Designed and developed Tier Splitting decision engine for processing data from complex event processing engine and Intelligent Memory Agent (IMA) client. Used HttpHandler and message pipes for communication from the IMA client to the tier splitting decision engine, in C#.
• Designed and developed scalable infrastructure (multi-threading) for translation bot using
• MSN protocol, in C#.
• Performance and stress testing in a distributed environment of Machine Translation servers, in C#.

Aug 2005 – Feb 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Redmond, WA

• Contributed to scalable cloud systems by building a multi-threaded trace replay engine for CloudDB
• (BigTable framework) and automating distributed deployments, improving efficiency and reliability.

May 2004 – Aug 2004 · 3 mos

• Designed architecture for building an interoperable instant messaging and presence service system between T-Mobile, Verizon, Cingular, Sprint and Nextel, using the wireless village standard.