May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

• Mentoring people on career choices, interview strategies, and leadership

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs

• Spearheaded the comprehensive enterprise feature development for Jira Service Management (JSM), Atlassian’s premier IT Service Management (ITSM) offering, achieving an ARR exceeding USD 400 million.
• Led the engineering division for IT Operations within JSM, Opsgenie, and Statuspage products, driving innovation and operational excellence.
• Strategized and implemented advanced Incident Management, Data Analytics, and AI Operations (AIOps) initiatives that substantially contributed to JSM’s business expansion.
• Managed and inspired a global team of 150+ professionals, including directors, engineering managers, and engineers in India and Australia, fostering collaboration and high performance across multiple levels.
• Mentored engineering leaders company-wide, cultivating leadership excellence in all aspects of engineering management.
• Pioneered a culture of innovation that resulted in over 20 patent filings each year for four consecutive years.
• Successfully orchestrated the creation of a fully remote team in India from inception in March 2020, navigating unprecedented challenges with agility and vision.
• Enhanced Atlassian’s recruitment ethos as a pivotal ’bar-raiser’, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), reshaping engineering talent acquisition processes to attract top-tier candidates.
• Revolutionized campus recruitment strategies for Atlassian India, seamlessly integrating an unprecedented influx of elite graduates into the company’s fabric.

Mar 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Head of engineering for the IT Operations capabilities of the IT Service Management offerings (Jira Service Management - JSM, Opsgenie, and Statuspage) from Atlassian
• Manage a team of around 120 people with directors, engineering managers, and engineers at all levels
• Driving data and AIOps strategy
• Mentoring engineering leaders across the company
• Bar-raiser and influencer of Atlassian hiring practices in Engineering
• Built the fully-remote India team from scratch in March 2020

Oct 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Directed the engineering division for Atlassian Access, steering the product from ground zero to market leader with over USD 30 million within two years of launch, and subsequently surpassing ARR of USD 100 million.
• Founded the engineering team and incubated the product, setting architecture vision and organizational struc- ture.
• Led the successful roll-out of Premium and Enterprise editions for cornerstone SaaS products Jira Software and Confluence, bolstering Atlassian’s market dominance.
• Mentored top-tier engineering leaders in the US, nurturing their professional ascent and cultivating a legacy of leadership excellence.
• Played a pivotal role in fortifying Atlassian’s global recruitment framework and refining engineering leadership selection processes, markedly improving talent acquisition quality.

Apr 2012 – Oct 2017 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

• ● Built up and managed an engineering team of about 35 people across multiple geographic locations; includes architects, first level managers, and developers.
• ● Run VMware’s Cloud Services 24x7, all the way from design and development, to deployment and SaaS operations, with multiple code-pushes to production every day.
• ● Responsible for the core infrastructure (self-service catalog, governance, API) of the vRealize Automation (vRA) product - formerly, vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) - both on-premise as well as SaaS.
• ● Lead the architecture of the entire RESTful API surface exposed by the VMware Cloud Services and command-line tools built on top of the API (vRealize Cloud Client).
• ● Worked on the strategy and implementation of management capabilities for Docker containers in vRA.
• ● Implemented cross-cloud management capabilities across Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure
• and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), working closely with partners at these companies.
• ● Interface with product managers, architects and customers to translate product strategy into concrete implementation with well-defined milestones and schedules.
• ● Released 4 major releases of vRealize Automation and multiple releases of vRealize Cloud Client that now have over 1000 active customers and $200 million+ in annual license revenue

Sep 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Cupertino, California, United States · On-site

• Directly lead a team of 50 engineers, architects and first-level managers, spread across six time zones, with primary development facilities in Cupertino (CA, USA), Roseville (CA, USA), Cluj (Romania) and Hyderabad (India). Responsible for $6 million R&D budget.
• Manage half the new product development for HP Server Automation (formerly Opsware), the market- leader in infrastructure management products for public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
• Responsible for the core architecture of the product, infrastructure features such as OS provisioning and OS/application patching, as well as integrations with other software and hardware products in HP’s portfolio, including HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP Converged Infrastructure Controller.
• Work closely with senior executives, product managers, design partners, customers, QA, presales and support organizations on product roadmap, features, beta releases and the complete product value delivery chain.
• Delivered major release of Server Automation 9.1 in June 2011, as well as seven minor releases of Server Automation 7.8x, 9.0x and 9.1x.
• Actively recruited over 20 engineers in FY 2011 with a wide range of experience, from college hires to senior architects with over 25 years of experience.
• Mentor architects on HP’s technical career path and first-level managers on the management career path.
• Organized teams in Scrums and a Scrum-of-Scrums hierarchy for highly effective product development.

Mar 2010 – Sep 2010 · 6 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

• Employee #16 and one of 4 engineers (including CTO/founder) at the time
• Involved in development of the Kaazing WebSocket Gateway focusing on server management, clustering, load-balancing and security features such as integration with Kerberos
• Built clients in Java, JavaScipt and ActionScript, and gateway for Kerberos over WebSocket
• Server-side work in Java using Apache MINA, JMS, JMX and Hazelcast
• Client-side work includes cross-browser JavaScript, Java, Flash, GWT, and Google App Engine

Oct 2008 – Dec 2018 · 10 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

• Managed an investment club specializing in investments in options

Mar 2007 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs · Redwood City, California, United States

• Lead a team spread across the USA, India and Australia.
• Designed and implemented the Tree Management infrastructure for Oracle Fusion Applications: End-to-end hierarchical data management system providing a host of features including rich-visualization, versioning, data security, integration with OLAP
• systems (Hyperion, OBIEE), high performance with large datasets.
• Infrastructure is a key selling point for the application suite and in use by thousands of customers. Built with Java Server Faces (JSF), Apache Trinidad, Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS), Oracle DB
• (including PL/SQL).
• Implemented the data security management system for Oracle Fusion Applications that provides seamless data security enforcement at the ORM-layer for both OLTP and OLAP
• systems. Uses JSF, Oracle ADF, Oracle DB.
• Designed and implemented a distributed infrastructure for generating the global navigation menu on any Fusion application page. Menu allows secured access to pages that span different functional areas hosted across WebLogic domains. Uses JAX-WS web services and SOAP for communication among the WebLogic servers.
• Responsible for near-zero-downtime migration tools from legacy Oracle products to the Fusion system. Infrastructure uses Perl, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and PL/SQL.
• Designed and implemented an extensible build system for ApplCore - compile, generate artifacts, run unit tests (including Selenium-based UI tests), gather metrics and report by
• product. In use by 50-person team and also forms the basis for the build system used by the Fusion Applications organization (about 5000 developers). Built using Apache Ant, XSLT, Emma and Oracle JDeveloper tools.

Sep 2004 – Feb 2007 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Redwood City, California, United States

• Assisted customers and Oracle consultants in the successful implementation of OA Framework based applications (Oracle releases 11i and R12) at many companies worldwide.
• Responsible for operations of India development team (about 15 developers) including design reviews, status updates, bug tracking, customer interactions.
• Designed the extensibility architecture for OA Framework which allowed new user interfaces to be built and integrated with products shipped by Oracle. Presented demos to Oracle consultants and sales force. This work is described in substantial detail in the
• book "Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook" by A. Passi & V.Ajvaz (ISBN: 0071629424).
• Rewrote the front-end rendering for Oracle UIX web-based components to implement the new look-and-feel code-named "Swan". This look-and-feel applies to the Oracle E-Business Suite release 12. Involved extensive web-based development (HTML, CSS,
• JavaScript) to support multiple browsers (Firefox, IE, Safari) on multiple client platforms (Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX).
• With acquisition of PeopleSoft, participated in deep-dive discussions to gather best-of-breed ideas from PeopleTools and OA Framework in preparation for Fusion.
• Wrote the functional design for the Tree Management infrastructure for Fusion.

Jan 2003 – Aug 2004 · 1 yr 7 mos · Redwood City, California, United States

• Implemented mobile application development support within the OA Framework. Supported Symbian (Nokia) and Palm OS based devices for web-based access to Oracle Applications.
• Modified a key component - searchable list of values - to the mobile platforms. Work involved elimination of JavaScript and the use of server-side state management to support the mobile browsers of the time.
• Implemented tree and hierarchical-grid view components for visualization of hierarchical data (UI, databinding).
• Conducted OA Framework training at Oracle-Singapore for Oracle consultants and sales force operating the Asia-Pacific region.
• Participated in design of Oracle Metadata Services (MDS) which is in use to-date and a key component of Fusion Middleware.

Nov 2001 – Dec 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo · Redwood City, California, United States

• Established the OA Framework group in Hyderabad, India with 5 developers. Conducted extensive training of the group to bring them up to speed on the OA Framework architecture. Training was in-person as well as remote. One of the original developers now runs all OA Framework development.
• Responsible build and release infrastructure for the OA Framework.
• Designed and implemented the customization framework for personalizing UI on-the-fly. This is one of the key selling points of the Oracle E-Business Suite to-date.
• Trained developers from an internal project code-named "Cherokee" who were reassigned to contribute to the OA Framework.
• Migrated OA Framework runtime to the Orion Application Server which was licensed by Oracle at the time. (Orion later became OC4J.)

Jul 2000 – Oct 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos · Redwood City, California, United States

• Created the web and email based worklist on top of the Oracle Workflow engine that is in use to this day in the Oracle E-Business Suite.
• Key contributor to the OA Framework design and implementation in December 2000. This is the architecture for all E-Business Suite development in releases 11i and 12. Code in JSP, Java/J2EE, PL/SQL and Oracle DB. Using Apache HTTPD and Oracle's BC4J and UIX frameworks for ORM and web-based-UI. Architecture is the precursor to Oracle ADF.
• Wrote the data binding layer for a wide variety of UI components including tabular views.
• Liaised with early adopters of the OA Framework - Oracle Applications teams like Internet Expenses and Project Management - to help with uptake of the OA Framework.
• Responsible for triaging all OA Framework bugs.

May 1999 – May 2000 · 1 yr

• Member of the MONET group (Multimedia, Operating Systems and Networking) at UIUC. Conducted research in the area of multimedia systems esp. CPU and network resource reservation protocols. Research adviser: Prof. Klara Nahrstedt http://cairo.cs.uiuc.edu/people.html

Aug 1998 – Apr 1999 · 8 mos

• Teaching assistant for CS423: Operating Systems Design (formerly CS323)

Jun 1997 – Apr 1998 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Teaching assistant for the introductory computer science course for freshmen.