Jan 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Laid the foundations of modernizing the company into an AI‑first, API‑first collaboration cloud while sustaining public‑company‑grade trust.
• 1) Executive Leadership: Led a global Product, UX, Solutions and R&D strategy org of 230+ people worldwide. Responsible for the roadmap driving ~$830MM+ in ARR, grew the ARR by 20% during my tenure.
• 2) Platform Expansion: Transformed the company from a "point solution" for SEC reporting into a multi-solution GRC Platform, significantly expanding Total Addressable Market (TAM).
• 3) M&A & Integration: Led diligence and product integration for key acquisitions, expanding the company's footprint into ESG and Audit.
• Accomplishments
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• Improved commercial win rates by +47% in Financial Reporting, +23% in GRC, and +68% in ESG.
• 1) Conceived and spearheaded the development of the AI & Data Platform Modernization. Petabyte‑Scale Observability & Vector Store on modern data lakes architecture which can scale to min of 5 B doc events/day, enrich with Gen‑AI embeddings, and power real‑time co-pilots and narrative assistants. Provides the foundational layer for Workiva 3.0.
• 2) Public Funds Reporting — conceived, built and GA‑released; opens a $4 Billion TAM across ETFs, mutual funds and REITs.
• 3) Rolled out Smart Linking 2.0 and multi‑regime disclosure templates (ESEF, CSRD), raising document accuracy to xx.xx % and reducing filing prep time by xx%.
• 4) GRC Re‑imagined- product, integration & tech enhancement (UX, micro‑services, policy‑as‑code, data first posture), zero friction, focus on productivity for customers, scale/perf improvements.
• 5)Sustain.Life acquisition for ($100 M) — shipped Workiva Carbon within 4 weeks of acquisition.
• 6) Recruited multiple new VPs, Sr Directors, Distinguished engg (Product, Engg, Data & UX from Facebook, PayPal, AWS, Google)
• 7) Rated amongst top 25 CPOs worldwide for 2024- https://www.prweb.com/releases/products-that-count-announces-the-2024-cpo-awards-winners-302165784.html

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

• Led multiple areas to help grow the ARR from $170 million to $780 million in the ~4 years during my time.
• Led Product Management teams for Identity, User Administration/Enterprise(Active Directory,SCIM, Eventing) Identity(SSO,SAML,AuthN), Integrations for new platforms, product integrations for Webex, Salesforce etc. Also defining and implementing Tier 0 services constructs for my areas (low latency, high concurrency, low throttling, scaling).
• Accomplishments
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• 1) Defining and launching new businesses from scratch including building Smartsheet Gov from inception, achieving HIPAA-ready and FedRAMP high; secured public-sector anchors (US Army, DoD, NASA) and enabled regulated-industry adoption.
• 2) Led the overall product vision and strategy, product/UX direction- chief advisor to the CPO
• 3) Mergers and Acquisitions(M&A) including $155mm acquisition of Brandfolder, Incubating, sponsoring, building new businesses and technologies including Smartsheet on Oculus (AR/VR), document analysis/extraction etc.
• 4) product analysis services with BI and data science, strategic alliances, marketplace monetization, business operations etc.
• 5) Monetized ecosystem: Launched in‑product Marketplace for Automations & integrations,(shipped 45+ integrations) in a period of 2 years delivering $44 Million GMV and a 32 % uplift in expansion ARR.
• 6)Platform foundations: Delivered Identity, SSO/SAML/AuthN, and enterprise administration (AD/SCIM/Eventing), establishing tier‑0 reliability (low latency, high concurrency, low throttling) and p99 <200 ms.
• 7) Developer acceleration: Introduced GraphQL, webhooks, serverless run‑ins; scaled API consumption to double‑digit billions of calls per year and expanded integrations (Workday, Webex, Cisco).
• 8) Modernized delivery: Led monolith-to-microservices migration (Kubernetes/AKS), reducing release cycle time by 90%, improving resilience, and enabling isolated, on-demand scaling.

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos · United States

• Act as an embedded strategic/operating advisor for top-tier companies. Clients include top 3 consulting firms, top 5 PE firms, investment firms, late stage VC funded companies in North America, Europe, Asia. All under NDA.
• Invest in mission-driven tech startups, focusing on deep tech sectors such as AI, Fintech, and Sustainable Energy.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs

• Led container/GPU PaaS, VM scale, control-plane analytics, security, and experimentation/data platforms.
• Conceptualized and led multiple brand new line of businesses, designed and ramped up scale & concurrency, led product capabilities for computing including virtual machines, scale sets, API models, cloud infrastructure, host security, control plane analytics, drove key partnership with customers (big and startups). Also Drove the Analysis, Experimentation and Data platform team.
• Accomplishments
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• 1) Shipped the first Azure container PaaS—a runtime that combined Windows Server containers, Docker images, and GPU‑backed NV‑series VMs, cutting time‑to‑deploy from xx min →x min
• 2) Designed multi‑tenant network isolation & live migration algorithms that delivered 99.99 % availability at p99 latency < 200 ms;
• 3) Pioneered Azure’s first GPU PaaS tier (NV1 ), enabling deep‑learning workloads for Bing, Xbox Live, and 50+ ISV partners.
• 4) Partnered with Microsoft Research to productize Distributed ML Containers—petabyte‑scale model‑training images running on Kubernetes + RDMA; reduced training cost 38 %.
• 5) Rolled out Model‑as‑a‑Service blueprints that let customers deploy TensorFlow & Torch models with a single AZ deploy, paving the path for what became Azure Machine Learning.
• 6) Drove 18 % COGS reduction by right‑sizing container density and shifting cold workloads to spot capacity.
• 7) Achieved SOC‑2 Type II and FIPS 140‑2 encryption compliance for the container control plane—vital groundwork for today’s FedRAMP High authorization.
• 8) Partnered with engineering team to reduce MTTR from 27 min → 8 min and incident rate dropped 42 %.
• 9) Spoke at 11+ conferences (DockerCon, Build) on container orchestration and AI inference at scale.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 · 7 yrs

• Conceptualized and shipped the multi-cloud management solution System Center App Controller, virtual networking in Azure/private cloud, driving strategic relationship with top fortune 100 customers.Azure’s early team member(Red-dog) for multi‑tenant runtime and open‑source container services.
• Accomplishments
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• 1) Launched Azure’s first container PaaS (container‑based runtime + Virtual Machines), shrinking “code‑to‑prod” by 80%+ for multiple internal dev teams.
• 2) Scaled developer base 5× to 1.8 M MAUs by introducing buildpacks and a self‑service marketplace for add‑ons (Redis, Postgres).
• 3) Drove 99.99 % availability via live‑migration algorithms and proactive failure detection; presented results at Microsoft Build & other industry keynotes.
• 4) Co‑authored two cloud‑virtualization RFCs (Author of Open virtualization format and interoperability); filed patents in PaaS orchestration & secure multi‑tenant networking.
• 5) Co-authored VM control plane semantics and drove adoption in Azure.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs

• Worked in two teams. First one led product strategy, ML roadmap, and 300+ person org for Amazon’s global returns, refunds, and risk‑detection stack—serving 120 M+ customers across web & mobile and protecting $300 B+ GMV each year. Second one was driving end‑to‑end product vision for AWS Identity—including IAM, Secure Token Service (STS), and service‑to‑service authentication—anchored in zero‑trust, defense‑in‑depth principles.
• Accomplishments
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• 1)Invented “Instant Refund” experience: ML model predicts item resale probability + buyer trust score; >significant xx% of eligible customers receive refund within 60 seconds—CSAT + 14 pts.
• 2)Launched Mobile Returns Center in 12 languages; daily active users climbed 4× and mobile share surpassed 55 % of returns traffic within a year.
• 3)Enhanced risk engine (XGBoost + graph neural nets) over petabyte‑scale feature store (xxx TB/hr ingest)—reduced fraudulent refund claims xx% YOY.
• 4) 30 % attach‑rate boost for Serverless & Container SKUs: bundled “one‑click IAM Role Generator” into Lambda and Fargate consoles; significant attach rate jumped from xx% →yy%, lifting blended ASP for those services by xx%.
• 5) Defined Assume‑Zero‑Trust architecture for xxx+ AWS services; every new public API now ships with scoped session polices by default.
• 6)Redesigned Secure Token Service (STS) — token size –xx%, issuance latency –xxx%, throughput + 3×; became the default auth path for other AWS services
• 7) Stellar performance reviews at Amazon- Outstanding and Exceeds expectations consistently, awarded Amazon Bar Raiser. Nominated to bar raiser of bar raiser.