Ashwin Paranjpe

VP of Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India18 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Nearly two decades of engineering leadership experience.
Expertise in Cyber Resilience and Cybersecurity.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with extensive experience in cybersecurity and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Executive LeadershipEngineering LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering ManagementTeam Building

Other Skills

University RecruitmentEnvironmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)HiringDirector levelManager of ManagersOrganizational DevelopmentDistributed File System (DFS)Coaching & MentoringDataplaneMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Network SecurityLinuxCSoftware Development

About

Engineering leader with close to two decades of experience in making mistakes & learning from some of them. Writes @ https://verysimple.medium.com Specialties: Engineering Leadership, Cyber Resilience, CyberSecurity, Distributed Systems, Public Cloud (IaaS, SaaS)

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Cohesity

4 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos · India · On-site

Executive Leadership

Senior Director of Engineering

Oct 2023 – Nov 2023 · 1 mo · India · On-site

SmartFiles & Data Services

Engineering Leadership

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos · India · On-site

SmartFiles & Data Platform
SmartFiles has been recognized as:
'Leader' and 'Outperformer' in the 2021 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Scale-Out File Storage
A 'Major Player' in IDC MarketScape 2022 Report – Scale Out File Systems
Customers' Choice in 2022 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Distributed File Systems and Object Storage.

Cross-functional Team LeadershipUniversity RecruitmentEnvironmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)HiringEngineering LeadershipDirector level+4

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · India · On-site

SmartFiles & Multi-tenancy

Team BuildingUniversity RecruitmentHiringEngineering ManagementDataplaneCoaching & Mentoring

Authmind

VP of Engineering

Nov 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs · India

AuthMind is a pioneering Identity Security provider that arms Identity and Cybersecurity teams with end-to-end, real-time Identity Security Posture Management and Threat Detection. AuthMind is designed to secure Identity and Access in any cloud, as well as on-premises or data centres. In 2022, Gartner recognised AuthMind as a Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security.

Executive Leadership

Isovalent

Engineering Manager

Apr 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Employee # 9 | Distributed Systems | Kubernetes | SaaS | Data Platform
Isovalent is an early stage startup, re-inventing networking & security for the age of microservices. Isovalent is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google, Cisco Investments and other top-tier Silicon Valley VCs.

Oracle

2 roles

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2016 – Apr 2017 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Distributed, stateful firewall for access control in the public cloud's virtual networks.
Role: Technical Lead

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Design and development of network virtualization software for Oracle Public Cloud's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.

Riverbed technology

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2011 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Design and development of products for Enterprise Network Control and Traffic Engineering.
Hands-on experience spanning a breadth of domains including Differentiated services & QoS, VPNs, Routing, leading Agile Scrum teams and Product ownership.

Dell secureworks

Software Developer

Jan 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

Enterprise Network intrusion detection and prevention (iSensor IDS/IPS) product development

Tata research development and design centre

Research Intern, Systems Research Lab

Jul 2009 – Aug 2009 · 1 mo · Pune Area, India

White paper on emerging Storage Consolidation technologies

Georgia institute of technology

Graduate Research Assistant

Aug 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · United States

Developed a Linux based platform for building customized mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs).
Advisor - Dr. Santosh Vempala
Website: http://thelifenetwork.org