Nov 2021 – Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States · Hybrid

• Thrilled to see Netskope reach a major milestone by going public in September 2025. It’s been an incredible journey to be part of a team building and scaling platforms. Successfully managed and led cloud initiatives and SRE efforts for four products at Netskope.
• Mentored principal engineers and architects within cross-functional teams, empowering them to excel in their roles. By coaching them in design and utilization of an infrastructure-as-code framework, we simplified the deployment process for RBI, PDEM, PCCS, and CSPM products. This also includes building data infra on cloud using Kafka and clickhouse handling terabytes of data daily.
• Key Position Achievements:
• o Built a cutting-edge cloud infrastructure automation solution for RBI, PDEM, SSPM, PCCS, and Storage Scan (DEM). By implementing proactive monitoring, we were able to minimize incidents and significantly reduce on-call activities.
• o Fostered a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the teams, driving productivity at scale and optimizing costs on the cloud.

Apr 2016 – Nov 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos · St Louis, Missouri, United States · Hybrid

• Bayer acquired Monsanto. Early engineer (4th hire) from inception of Location360 to present day with accountability for day-to-day management of 7 AWS accounts and 3 GCP accounts. Multi-cloud platform strategy, infrastructure management, CSP, N2K, audit, governance, and compliance. Performance compute through platform engineering, data engineering and cloud engineering, addressing challenges in crop, soil and weather data for both vector and raster data at Multi-Petabyte scale.
• Key Position Achievements:
• o Lead all open-source initiatives, playing a pivotal role in making technical decisions through proof of concepts and study on industry developments.
• o Primary Architect for several of the functionalities developed and implemented for Location360.
• o The systems deployed through proof of concept implemented in 2016 is still currently handling billions of records in production and successfully handling spatial queries spanning the world for 4+ years.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs · Albany, New York, United States and Hyderabad, India · On-site

• Founding Engineer, Responsible for building the team from scratch for Xlabs. Created product strategies for Xtream’s product line. Launched multiple products in Big data and Machine learning space. Worked with customers to define requirements and features and also with globally distributed development teams. Evangelised technology solutions to prospects, customers, analysts and internal teams. Led a team of 15+ engineers including 2 managers. Authored machine learning white papers in Market Research, Audit and Health Care.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Responsible for the development of Consumer Information Management product in the telecom industry, Analytics Suite, that analyzes call detail records (CDR) to get key insights of the data in the telecom domain. The product addresses the challenges in mobile social media through mining huge terabytes of data by distributed processing through Hadoop. Predictive data analysis, Churn Analytics and Tag Recommendation.
• o Design and development of Analytics Suite 2.0(Loyalty and Churn Analytics).
• o Applied social network analysis, Data mining and machine learning methodologies for consumer behavior analysis on telecom data.
• o Developed the recommendation engine by reverse engineering using machine-learning methodologies to improve the churn rate based on the location.
• o Determined the alpha/influential users with in the telecom network of over 10+million users.
• o Effective utilization of dynamic discount solution to improve the ROI.
• One of the top five finalists of the Ericsson Business Multimedia Innovation competition held across 65 countries. Developed the prototype Analytics Eye under Business Support Solutions Category and represented Ericsson R&D India in Ericsson Stockholm, Sweden.

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Learned telecom domain, data selection, data cleaning, data preprocessing, data reduction and data transformation techniques and prepared platform for the analysis of telecom consumer behavior characteristics.
• Provided a technical solution on the evolution of the mobile customer behavior which and where one can know if something is happening when, where, why, what and how for churn analytics by establishing a social network framework on telecom data.
• Predicted behavior of network by Segregation of the communities based on cliques, cores, biconnected partitions.

May 2007 – Jun 2007 · 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• • Worked on Tool Analysis and Research project, was associated with the Design Software Division. Designed and created the module circuit analyzer to gather information on the circuit topology and analyzed the ISCAS ’89 benchmark circuits to demonstrate the toggle rate variations between gate-level and LUT-level netlists for the future work on Power aware synthesis and synthetic circuit.