Aug 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Jose, California, United States

• Responsible for Zscaler Cybersecurity portfolio - ATP and Sandbox, Cloud Firewall, Deception, ITDR, AppProtection,
• Shipped a brand new SOC product from idea to v1 in under 9 months - Breach Prediction
• M&A diligence for Avalor and many SOC startups

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Product responsibility for AIOps, Strata Cloud Manager, and Cortex Data Lake product lines. Converted AIOps 1.0 into a viable product line with 200% growth in the first year. Delivered Strata Cloud Manager v1.0 that converged several disparate consoles across AIOps, Prisma Access, Prisma SDWAN, and CDL into a unified, single experience for Palo Alto Networks' Network Security Products. Strata Cloud Manager infuses opinionated Cybersecurity outcomes with AIOps layers; and scales to support thousands of our customers from Day 1 for 10+ products.

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · 9 mos

• All things under Security Automation. Data. Response. Ecosystem

Apr 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Leading the Product Management team of 10 PMs for Cortex XSOAR across its SOAR. TIP and Marketplace offerings (previously Demisto)

Oct 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Joined Demisto prior to Series B. Introduced and evangelized groundbreaking features that have made Demisto a leader in Security Orchestration and Automation Market.
• Drove the roadmap, competitive and growth of 3rd party security products ecosystem for Demisto.
• Partnered with Sales and Early adopter customers to evolve all the 3 aspects of the product so that it becomes easier to deploy in PoCs, is an RFP winner, has ‘Delight the customer` features.
• Stakeholders alignment with what is the right feature to ship and align with the overall Company strategy.
• Work closely with UX/UI and engineering team in Israel to release impactful quarterly releases.
• Developed the technical alliance ecosystem and integration development process for Demisto as maintaining a healthy 3rd party Security Product Ecosystem is core part of the product. This aspect of the role has helped me build a very healthy peer ecosystem in security industry. Demisto Products adds 3-4 integrations every 2 weeks like clockwork after this process was evolved.
• Worked with marketing on supporting key Conferences , blogging product use-cases, feature and customer scenarios, webinar demo setups for lead generation.

Jun 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs

Jan 2016 – Oct 2016 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Incubated Symantec Endpoint Protection v14.1 Intensive Protection and Hardening capabilities for world's largest deployed Enterprise Endpoint customer base. This required combining Symantec's leading Anti Malware capabilities and Server side Hardening technologies to come together for SEP's enterprise customers . The solution had to be designed to be managed by Cloud Console that was already in use by several Symantec Products like ATP, SEPC, DCS.
• Evangelized the solution proposal across a number of Symantec stakeholders in Sales, Marketing, Product Managment & Engineering, validated the proposal with Analysts and SEP customer base.
• Projected revenue for the new capabilities with Pricing team to justify engineering investments
• Worked with UX and cross geo PM team to research and create end to end User Journeys for Cloud Managed Endpoint Protection scenarios eg the procurement experience, onboarding wizards and enterprise grade endpoint protection features.
• Symantec has become a Endpoint MQ Leader after this release

Feb 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Owned growth and execution of Intel Security's Whitelisting and File Integrity monitoring products, McAfee Application and Change Control. The role, even though an entry level one, gave me ample opportunity to drive strategic direction of the product with a healthy guidance from my leadership. Equal time was spent between Outbound activities like Customer calls, Sales Enablement, CXO/EBC briefings, Product positioning for RFPs and Pre- Sales calls vs Inbound execution related activities. The strategic aspect of the role required utilizing market trends and data insights, combining those with what I was hearing from my customers and weaving it back in the product as a roadmap. Developed product collateral like presentations, product demo or feature videos using Videoscibing & Camtasia. Moderated the Product community and engaged with Product users on a continuous basis. Developed an internal process of validating the feature experience by mocking the UX using Balsamiq before prioritizing it in the backlog.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

• Responsible for McAfee Application Control product on Windows platforms. I managed a team of 7 kernel developers to deliver the feature set for Windows endpoint.
• Previous to this, I managed the same team as Technical Lead (June 2009 - Feb 2011) after McAfee acquired Solidcore in May 2009.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2011 · 7 yrs

• Managed Support for the S3 Control product along with the team of 6 people System Engineering team. This role helped me to gain experience of handling and grooming teams to support varied technologies.
• As one of Solidcore India office’s earliest employee, I have been involved in developing the prototype to taking the product to market.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 · 0 mo