Sep 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

• I joined DigitalOcean through the Nimbella aquisition, and I continued to work with the company until April 2023. During this time, I spearheaded the launch of DigitalOcean Functions, both as a new standalone serverless offering and as an integrated capability with DigitalOcean's App Platform. The successful launch of Functions marked an effective collaboration between our two companies. I developed DigitalOcean's serverless portfolio and product strategy, and executed a roadmap to further differentiate DigitalOcean's serverless and PaaS products in the marketplace.

Sep 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

• I founded a serverless cloud company called Nimbella, with a strong focus on providing an exceptional developer experience and vertical integration of foundational cloud capabilities. Our platform enabled developers to quickly develop and deploy full-stack and Jamstack applications, and it was available on Google Cloud and AWS as a SaaS for self-serve developers. The Nimbella platform integrated numerous cloud-native services, including load balancing, networking, certificate management, object storage, key-value storage, and fully managed, secure, and scalable computing. Additionally, we licensed the Nimbella platform on premise and in-VPC on both clouds for bespoke deployments.
• I led an exceptional team of engineers, developer advocates, marketers, and salespeople, all of whom worked to bring our technology to developers and businesses. I successfully handled industry analyst briefings, customer outreach, and developer outreach, which helped raise Nimbella's profile in the market. As a result of our efforts, Nimbella was highlighted in several cloud briefings and won industry awards.
• In September 2021, Nimbella was acquired by DigitalOcean, and I continued to work with the company until April 2023. During this time, I spearheaded the launch of DigitalOcean Functions, both as a new standalone serverless offering and as an integrated capability with DigitalOcean's App Platform. The successful launch of Functions marked an effective collaboration between our two companies.

Nov 2006 – Mar 2018 · 11 yrs 4 mos

• I am one of the creators and the lead technical contributor to Apache OpenWhisk, an event based computing model for the serverless cloud. I co-founded this effort at IBM Research in early 2015, and continue to lead the design and implementation of the core architecture, tooling and runtimes. OpenWhisk is the premiere open source platform for research and innovation for serverless computing with Functions-as-a-Service. It is production-ready and available as a service via IBM Cloud Functions and Adobe as I/O runtime. It is also integrated with Red Hat's OpenShift and deployed on-prem in several organization worldwide. I subsequently lead a broad research agenda around programming models and tooling for serverless computing to enable many classes of applications in IoT, workflow orchestration, chatbots, and HPC to take advantage of the promises offered by serverless computing.
• Before getting into Cloud, I spent several years leading an effort to design a programming language for hardware synthesis (via FPGAs) and performance acceleration with GPUs. My other contributions at IBM include computing with spreadsheets which shipped in InfoSphere Streams, and the web content management system for all IBM Researchers.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs