Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Nov 2023 – Aug 2024 · 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

• Narayan is Vice President & General Manager, VMware Cloud. In this role, Narayan manages all aspects of Product Development (UX, Product Management, Engineering, Program Management), Customer Operations (Support, Customer Success, SRE), and Go-To-Market (Marketing, Sales, Solutions Architecture).
• VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered managed service that combines VMware Cloud Foundation with Amazon EC2 elastic, bare-metal infrastructure to enable customers to run business-critical applications across private, public and hybrid cloud environments, with optimized access to AWS services. The service delivers the same architecture and operation experiences on-premises and in the cloud, enabling IT teams to more rapidly extend, migrate, protect, and modernize vSphere-based applications on AWS using familiar VMware tools. VMware Cloud on AWS is delivered and supported by VMware and its partner community, and sold by VMware, AWS, and their respective partner networks.

Aug 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Narayan leads the Cloud Solutions team at VMware in a general management role. The Cloud Solutions team builds and operates the VMware Cloud SaaS platform for our public cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Alibaba), local cloud solutions (Dell, Outposts), and distributed cloud (Equinix) innovations.
• The Cloud Solutions team includes product management, engineering, program management, and solutions architecture. Our charter is to deliver an integrated customer consumption experience across public cloud, local cloud, and hybrid cloud solutions to accelerate customer consumption through VMware and partner routes to market.
• Come join the company leading the multi-cloud market.

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs

• Narayan leads Product Management, Product Strategy, Business Development for Cloud Services Business Unit, for the VMware Cloud portfolio across all the major Public Clouds.
• He leads three major initiatives as part of this:
• 1) VMware-AWS partnership : VMware’s market leading offerings jointly engineered with Amazon Web Services including VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud, and VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts
• 2) VMware-Hyperscaler solutions : VMware has a portfolio of SDDC based solutions with leading public clouds such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.
• 3) Multi Cloud Platform & Solutions : VMware’s multi cloud platform manages infrastructure across public cloud, datacenter, and edge. In addition, VMware provides an integrated solutions experience that can be run on any infrastructure stack in any location. This includes VMware’s rich operator, data & analytics platform to manage multiple SaaS offerings, in order to provide an excellent customer experience that is compliant with global industry & US government standards

Dec 2016 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Jun 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Palo Alto

• Disrupting the $15B Business Intelligence industry with cloud based data products for all enterprise users
• ClearStory product launched at Strata New York in October 2013
• Focus on converging external and internal data toward fast business insights
• Insights platform includes a collaboration framework, an interactive visual query interface, and a scalable in-memory processing platform
• Technology leadership with innovative distributed frameworks such as Apache Spark and Storm
• Venture backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins

Jul 2009 – Jul 2013 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for the strategy and execution of the following initiatives
• 1) Data Engineering & Data Science - Responsible for big data analytics to provide product metrics, provide business insights into usage and adoption, and to increase operational, product, marketing and sales efficiency.
• 2) Monitoring & Management of the Salesforce.com platform- that includes all parts of the multi-tenant software and hardware stack. A portfolio of best of breed open source, home grown, and vendor tools used to drive increased operational efficiency.

Aug 2006 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Redwood Shores, CA

• Managed Middleware Product line of products focused on the APM market
• Led SOA Management Pack from concept to market
• Led the acquisition of AmberPoint as entry into BTM market

Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 · 3 yrs

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr