Apr 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

• As the Global Lead Product Manager for the industry-leading IBM Guardium Data Security Platform, I am committed to securing vast volumes of data against evolving threats and delivering exceptional value to our global customer base. I drive the strategy and development of innovative solutions in Data Discovery & Classification, Encryption, Crypto Agility, and Quantum-Safe technologies.
• Key Achievements and Impact:
• Led the development and launch of IBM Guardium Quantum Safe, providing comprehensive insights into enterprise crypto posture and advancing IBM’s leadership in Quantum technologies, boosting customer confidence in post-quantum readiness by 40%.
• Drove growth in the Encryption & Key Management portfolio, advancing Crypto Agility through Quantum Safe solutions and achieving 25% year-over-year growth.
• Managed the HashiCorp acquisition, shaping the pre-deal synergy, post-deal strategy and Go-to-Market efforts, to provide better-together value for customers.
• Strengthened OEM relationships for Data Discovery & Classification, expanding market reach by 50% and increasing customer engagement.
• Led the redesign and modernization of GKLM (Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager), improving UX, performance, and deployment flexibility, driving 20% higher user satisfaction and 30% faster configuration times.
• Collaborated with IBM Storage and IBM Data, positioning GKLM as a core component of comprehensive data protection, expanding market presence.
• Fostered cross-functional relationships with World wide Sales, Tech Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing, aligning strategies to enhance customer value, revenue growth, and brand recognition.
• Partnered with IBM Research to productize research assets, driving innovation and expanding the customer base.
• Worked closely with Consulting, GSI and Partner Ecosystem, further enhancing market outreach and increasing customer adoption by 20%.

Mar 2019 – Apr 2024 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• As the Lead Product Manager for a market-leading Threat Detection and Response platform, I drove strategic initiatives to deliver exceptional value and propel business growth.
• Key Achievements and Impact:
• Led the QRadar SIEM product portfolio strategy and roadmap, generating $600M+ in annual recurring revenue through market-leading features and innovations.
• Launched two groundbreaking security products, achieving 30% faster threat detection and enhancing cyber resilience by 40%, significantly improving organizations’ security posture.
• Accelerated global market adoption through briefing and speaking engagements at major events like RSA Conference, PyCon, IBM Think, and TechXchange, increasing product awareness and engagement by 20%.
• Hired, managed, and mentored a global team of 12 Product Managers, guiding 1,000+ engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to build consensus and deliver on ambitious roadmaps.
• Drove 20% faster time-to-market by executing comprehensive product strategies and go-to-market plans.
• Built strong relationships with key industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester, IDC, KuppingerCole), earning recognition as a top-tier SIEM provider in three consecutive reports.
• Championed customer engagement through 50+ user forums and community interactions, capturing critical feedback that drove 25% of new feature development and increased customer satisfaction by 10%.
• Established thought leadership through industry events, webinars, and panel discussions, reinforcing IBM’s position as a security innovation leader.
• Implemented agile methodologies, improving development velocity by 20% and enabling faster responsiveness to evolving customer needs.
• Recognized as top 1% Technical Talent at IBM Tech 2024 for exceptional contributions to innovation and leadership while maintaining excellence in existing mature products.

Mar 2017 – Sep 2017 · 6 mos · Littleton , MA

• Worked as a software engineer for the Order Management System product in Watson Customer Engagement business unit, tasked with developing a new module for Inventory Management.
• IBM Sterling Order Management (OMS) is a next generation commerce platform that has been a backbone of e-commerce and order fulfillment for many of the top 100 retailers and Fortune 500 companies. The system provides order orchestration through a centralized inventory, order promising and fulfillment hub to support omni-channel order management. It helps enterprises increase fill rates and inventory turns, reduce markdowns, improve customer loyalty and increase share of wallet.
• Developed REST APIs using Java, Jersey JAX-RS to get and save inventory information.
• Participated in the architecture discussions to define the API request and response formats with the appropriate JSON structure and HTTP Status codes.
• Created Serializable Java classes for API communication.
• Created common Abstract base classes that are reusable for other modules within the Inventory System.
• Worked with product architects in designing the module architecture.
• Worked on writing efficient Cassandra Queries (CQL) along with table modeling with the appropriate partition keys.
• Worked with Docker containers to build, deploy and test the API’s.
• Created an API testing client that makes HTTP requests and checks the expected response.
• Enhanced the Gradle build for the project to support building the new API module.
• Was responsible for the analysis of the requirements, foreseeing the problems and provide efficient solutions.

Jun 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Software Engineer for the flagship IBM Kenexa BrassRing product, tasked with enhancing and developing new modules for an enterprise web-based software application utilized by Fortune 500 companies such as Wal-Mart, General Electric and Exxon Mobil. The product is built on Microsoft technologies, featuring an ASP.NET Web Forms UI layer, ASMX/WCF service layer, middle-tier code spanning technologies from VB6 to .NET 4.0, along with a SQL 2008 backend. Server-side code is written exclusively in C#.
• Project title: BrassRing Redesign
• This project is to revamp the recruiter facing application in the Talent Management space which automates the various steps in the hiring process. I have been a key contributor for this product ground up and have worked extensively on it.I have worked with the Product Management and QA on this project to meet the aggressive timelines and market demands along with transferring the knowledge on the various frameworks to other team members. Frameworks used include ASP.NET, JavaScript, Jquery, YUI, and CSS
• Project Title: Runway
• The project "Runway" is all about the Welcome Screen of the KRB application with a group of Panels, where each panel is designed to display information from some of the most frequently visited pages in KRB.

May 2007 – May 2010 · 3 yrs

• Project: GLS (Global Leave System)
• GLS at Infosys is a single interface for employees of Infosys Technologies Limited across the globe for leave management.I had worked on the end to end development and roll out of the system for the countries US, UK, Spain & Switzerland.Responsible for designing, development and testing of various enhancements and also provided support for the same. I was also involved in training the new team members.
• Project: Tesco.com
• Tesco.com is the fourth largest British based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. The project was the functionality of an online shopping of wines. I had worked on the UI-Middle tier for this project while implementing the technologies of C#, Asp.Net. Also as a part of the framework developed for this project I had worked on Forms, Form builders, Mappers, Services and Widgets.
• Project: QREUSE
• The project was a part of the ENCORE initiative by INFOSYS which involved developing new custom controls that can be reused for web applications across the organization. This reusability increases productivity and saves time on incorporating the same in various applications. The controls were developed in C#.Net, ASP. Net and JavaScript. The controls developed include PDF Generator and Editable Dropdown List are now available at the Organization's repository and are being used in various projects.
• Project: TRC TARGET (USA)
• Transition Request Center (TRC) is a web based application used by MPD Adjacency Analysts for creating, viewing and managing Transition Requests beginning the adjacency transition business process for Target Corp. Worked on the back end for the development and maintenance of stored procedures .Technologies worked ASP.Net, Infragistics, VB.net, DB2 and Web Services.
• Project: MTC VSTS
• Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) at Infosys is a center where work is done on the cutting edge technologies. I had worked on customization of work items in VSTS 2008 and research on VSTS 2010