Aug 2023 – Feb 2024 · 6 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

• At Fortanix, I have dual responsibilities ::
• As VP of engineering, I lead global engineering teams with responsibilities for Fortanix’s Confidential Computing Platform, all of Quality engineering, agile operations & technical documentation. The teams are distributed across California, US; Bangalore, India and Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• As the Country Head for India, I am also responsible for setting Foranix’s site strategy as well as managing operations for a 100+ FTE team covering R&D, Quality Engineering, Solutions, Marketing, Customer success besides support roles like HR & Finance.

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• Engineering Site Leader for India
• Execution - Fully responsible for delivering Tide platform product in India involving over a dozen scrum teams along with four complex third party integrations (including Cashfree, M2P, Syntizen and Karza)
• After GA, scaled the product to 50K+ SME businesses within four months resolving all issues and exceeded business expectations.
• Preparing the playbook for international expansion in Germany in the later part of the year.
• Full digital KYC, onboarding & PPI (ewallet) accounts & other financial services
• Interface with business for coming up with a 5 quarters roadmap.
• Engineering anchor for organization of 100+ development engineers, engineering heads, QA staff engineers.
• Successfully conducted Hackathon including participation from external organizations
• Part of the Senior Leadership Team

Dec 2019 – Nov 2020 · 11 mos

Sep 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs · Chennai Area, India

• Led a 50-member team managing (Compass GOLD / Argus / RiskCompass products) –
• GOLD (Disputes) part-ownership – embarking in the journey of converting legacy system to a multi-tenant ready disputes platform that can be leveraged by both PayPal & its acquisitions. Teams are responsible for payment Processors integrations, Chargeback flows, in the context of disputes. In six months given additional responsibility of RiskCompass that allows PayPal team-mates to review & decide on Risk alerts.
• Key accomplishments –
•  Successfully delivered several business-critical programs after quick ramp. Successfully shepherded team to architect a versatile/multi-tenant enabled payments processor(s) integration system – Innovation filed in the US patent office.
•  Helped change monthly release cycles to weekly release cycle by stream-lining processes
•  Led two highly successful Hackathons involving two major divisions with 100+ engineers – led to several quick wins
•  Backoffice optimizations -- significant reduction in AHT from 300 to 220 seconds & business process automation improved from 71% to 78% - leading to significant reduction in operational cost.
•  Contributions to site-wide initiatives – Innovation track in My-HapPYPLace.

Sep 2013 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Entrepreneur & Technology Advisor – Self | Freshdesk
• Working with the Freshdesk’s CTO I was responsible for technology strategy & product mgmt.
• o Functional -
•  Market place definition for pluggable extensions
•  Third party integrations & reusable frameworks across integrations.
•  Product agnostic services
• Spam detection & Prevention service & methodology.
• Search service
• o Nonfunctional – Security, Performance & scalability
•  Entrepreneurial
• o Worked on an end consumer targeted niche unified spirituality portal from concept to web application development.
• o Product management, UI experience, engineering.
• o Engaged with select business partners

Oct 2007 – Jul 2013 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore, India

• Responsible for developing and managing a security product from the ground up. In addition to managing engineering teams, I was also responsible for customer engagement for this product.
• Responsible for conceiving, designing, evangelizing and delivering common components (aka Platform engineering) - adoption rate of platform components resulted in significant reduction in GTM efforts, besides ensuring consistent design & architecture and customer experience.
• Worked on conceiving, designing & building PoCs in the Big Data area. Collaborated with CA innovation team to come up with initial prototypes t in the SIEM space leading to seed funding from executive leadership..
• Was also responsible for preliminary competitive market analysis in the SIEM space.

Nov 2004 – Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Oracle Application Server core engineering group - Redwood Shores, CA

May 2000 – Nov 2004 · 4 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Technical lead in in HP' flagship High Availability (HA) product -- Serviceguard - based on clustering technologies.

Nov 1998 – May 2000 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked as technical consultant for companies such as Tibco, Dailyapple.com while being employed with Inteliant.

Dec 1997 – Dec 1998 · 1 yr · New London/Norwich, Connecticut Area

Jul 1995 – Aug 1997 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Industrial automation software, GRASIM Industries, Nagda (Environment: INGRES, Pro*C)
• Pre-Compiler for Embedding xBase DDL and DML statements in C (Environment: C++ )
• MigraX Environment: Dynamic Embedded SQL of Pro*C (Oracle)
• MigraX is a tool for migrating legacy databases (dBase / FoxBASE / flat files) to Oracle RDBMS.
• Teaching Experience
• Taught the engineering students of BITS the following courses:
• Selected Computer Languages: Object oriented programming with emphasis on C++.
• Computer Programming - II: The C programming language, along with data structures.