May 2025 – Present · 11 mos

May 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Oct 2019 – May 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Successfully delivered and graduated Carrier Grade Aspen Mesh, the worlds leading service provider service mesh, as a mainline business for F5 - generating over $5M in revenue and growing.
• Accountable for bookings, annual recurring revenue (ARR) and budget for the Aspen Mesh business, including Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and Services organizations.
• Led the incubation startup organization and strategy to deliver the leading service provider 5G capable service mesh based on Istio which is now deployed in multiple of the world's largest service provider networks.
• Worked closely with the world's largest service providers and partners to create a roadmap that provided value and mission critical features for 5G networks including: TLS certificate management, DNS based certificates, packet-capture, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 support, AI-based session trace sampling.
• Delivered a product line to address enterprise customers who desired support and services for open source Istio along with its accompanying technologies including: Envoy, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTracing.
• Developed a subscription go to market (GTM) plan that was based on Annual Recurring Revenue and services revenue that scaled with our customer's growth while providing options for enterprise-wide and perpetual licensing.
• Built and grew a market-discovery oriented Sales organization to enhance our digitally led enterprise sales process and implemented a compensation program based on customer learning and value discovery.
• Built and grew a Services organization to deliver a menu of attachable services for our subscription based products to provide training, education, architectural planning and ensure strategic placement of Aspen Mesh in customers' application architecture.
• Built and grew a Customer Success organization that ensured all customers were successful in their implementation and use of the product leading to stickiness and increasing the likelihood of renewal.

Sep 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs

• Founder of F5's first internal A-round incubation startup, Aspen Mesh, which delivered observability, security and control for container and Kubernetes environments through an enterprise distribution of the Istio service mesh coupled with a SaaS AI based observability platform.
• Developed A-round startup business plan including revenue and expense modelin; successfully executed the pitch process to C-suite executives and the F5 Board of Directors to secure initial funding for Aspen Mesh.
• Secured initial customer design wins and reference customers in financial, retail and transportation verticals proving product-market fit and business viability.
• Worked closely with customers to execute a well-defined experiment process and deliver multiple iterations of our SaaS platform while maintaining a stable and predictable release cadence for the fully supported Istio datapath.
• Developed an open source business model and product management organization that allowed us to contribute to community projects while building value-add functionality in both the service mesh distribution and SaaS platform.
• Delivered customer-value through SaaS product features using AI and ML models to predict application health and enabled functionality like traffic mirroring, canary testing, testing in production, and health-based alerting. These features improved our customers' application availability and reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR) of production issues.
• Built and grew an early-stage startup organization that consisted of engineering, marketing and market-development that was focused on market discovery and finding product market fit in the service mesh space.
• Secured first revenue generating customers and ARR for Aspen Mesh Service Mesh through digital marketing and online sales and renewal model.

Aug 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Directed and managed global teams of high performing engineers and engineering support organizations responsible for F5's container (Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes) and OpenStack integrations.
• Led innovation engineering team to deliver a first of its kind light-weight programmable Node.js proxy (Application Services Proxy) from ideation to general availability, including GTM, that made East-West traffic management and security possible for F5.
• Generated millions of dollars in pull-through product revenue through the Invention, development and release of the first generation of the BIG-IP Container Connector. This was F5's first open source standalone Kubernetes-based product.
• Built F5's first open source organization working with Legal, Marketing, and Product teams along with C-suite executives to ensure compliance and standards were met while fulfilling the open and community-based mission of the team.
• Modernized my organization's development pipeline to drive CI/CD practices using tools such as GitHub, CircleCI, Quay and Docker.
• Led and mentored documentation writers to create a world-class documentation as code process to improve the quality, accuracy and delivery time of product documentation. This site is now clouddocs.f5.com

Sep 2015 – Jul 2016 · 10 mos

• Direct and manage F5 Network’s first officially supported Open Source Software (OSS) program to integrate existing products into OpenStack enabling pull through revenue of over $25M per year.
• Launched the OpenStack initiative working cross functionally with Legal, Product Management, Business Development, Marketing, Support, and Services teams from inception to delivery of the first release of the product in six months.
• Created F5’s first open-source approval process that enables teams to efficiently deliver functionality by empowering the local leadership within a specified set of parameters while engaging outside organizations and senior leadership at regular targeted intervals.
• Implemented an agile development and quality process that was open and transparent to the community while satisfying internal requirements and processes using GitHub, Travis-CI, Jira and Jenkins.
• Support development team in upstream open-source contributions to OpenStack projects Neutron, Heat, Tempest, and the Application Catalog. This contribution strategy ensures the team and F5 are seen as a positive and contributing member of the community.
• Facilitate partner certification and integration programs with OpenStack distribution vendors such as RedHat and Mirantis as well as SDN partners including PlumGrid, Nuage, and Cisco.
• Engage team members and principal engineers in co-development projects with customers to ensure successful integration of F5 product into their environments and provide a mechanism for long-term maintenance and support of the joint solution.
• Direct a team of operations engineers and the associated budget and planning to provide the development, test and lab infrastructure for multiple teams. This team manages multiple environments including OpenStack, Mesos, and Docker.
• Successfully reorganized development and quality engineering teams to work on new high value projects after the end of life of an existing acquired product line.

Feb 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Managed and oversaw the transition of the LineRate Systems Quality Engineering team and the associated processes and quality strategies to F5 following the acquisition of LineRate Systems.
• Responsible for product quality including the agile development process, test strategy, test execution, bug tracking, reporting for the LineRate product.
• Developed and adapted the pre-acquisition agile process to enable accurate and meaningful reporting into post-acquisition systems to ensure continued efficiency by the development organization while still providing the required C-level and corporate visibility into the program.
• Directed a team of engineers responsible for the quality of the addition of user programmable datapath using Node.js including the use of third-party NPM modules.
• Architected and oversaw the development and deployment of our multi-cloud strategy that extended our local on-premise datacenter to transparently use Amazon AWS.
• Oversaw the directed F5’s first online storefront allowing customers to purchase, renew and cancel software subscriptions. This required collaboration from various groups across the company including IT, Web-Development, Legal and Finance.