Kiran Rooge

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leader in developing multi-tenanted enterprise products.
Expert in driving innovation in software engineering.
Experienced in building high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and SaaS expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Organizational LeadershipCloud ApplicationsSaas DevelopmentStrategyCybersecuritySystem ArchitectureSoftware Development Life Cycle (sdlc)Web Applications

Other Skills

Software as a Service (SaaS)Leadership DevelopmentXDRAgile MethodologiesEnterprise ArchitectureComputer NetworkingAWSEDRSIEMAIML

About

Seasoned global engineering leader with experience in developing and deploying mission critical systems in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, cyber security, networking and cloud/SaaS domains. Experienced in building highly skilled strong engineering organisation across multiple geographies (India & north America) to deliver enterprise class (web based on-prem and cloud) software over two decades at Intel, EMC, DELL-EMC and RSA Security. Enjoys working with, learning from and motivating talented team members and utilizing industry best practices to resolve complex big data problems and simplify engineering process to achieve organizational goals and vision. A proven leader in developing multi-tenanted enterprise class products from concept to solution and a leader of multi-disciplinary teams driving innovation and excellence in every aspect of software engineering. Pursuing PG Level Advanced Certification in AIMLOps at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore to prepare myself to use AIML in product development.

Experience

28 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

N-able

India Site Lead | Head of Engineering | GCC Leadership

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Leading the establishment of N-able’s India operations from the ground up, including setting up the legal entity, operational infrastructure, and recruiting top-tier engineering talent. This initiative involved strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration with global stakeholders to align the India entity with N-able’s long-term business goals. Responsible for building high-performing engineering teams focused on product development and innovation, driving scalable solutions which contributes to the company’s global roadmap.

Organizational LeadershipCloud ApplicationsCybersecuritySoftware as a Service (SaaS)Leadership DevelopmentXDR

Aryaka

Head of Engineering

Feb 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading engineering to develop SASE solution for the world class multi-cloud networking platform.

StrategySaaS DevelopmentLeadership DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesEnterprise ArchitectureSoftware as a Service (SaaS)+6

Rsa security

Senior Director Software Engineering

Nov 2006 – Jan 2023 · 16 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working at RSA as Senior Director Software Engineering, with end-to-end global engineering ownership of a product, generating $200M in revenue. Responsible for entire engineering & DevOps (CI/CD) for RSA NetWitness XDR (EDR, NDR, SIEM & UEBA) which is big data analytics, data science and AI platform. Built the teams working on varied On-Prem (Linux & Java stack) and cloud (AWS & Azure) platforms to deliver next-gen threat detection and security analytics solutions.
Growing from Manager to Senior Director over a decade, responsible for growing the organization across India and north America regions at all the levels and actively mentoring next level leaders in distinct functions (engineering, architects, program management, product management).
Hiring & building 160+ strong leadership and engineering teams and lead the organization into adopting the agile culture.
Driving the transformation of on-prem solutions to the SaaS (AWS) platform, aimed at expanding the customer in the upcoming years.
Leading and driving scaled agile transformation which helped creating efficiencies and linking strategy to execution apart from timely delivery.
Key stakeholder in defining the GTM product strategy and roadmap. Instrumental in building EDR product on NetWitness platform to evolve as XDR platform.
Apart from leading engineering, responsible for all the site operations for the India organization in the capacity of site leader.

StrategySaaS DevelopmentLeadership DevelopmentXDRAgile MethodologiesEnterprise Architecture+11

Intel corporation

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2002 – Oct 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a technical lead, was responsible for architecting and leading/developing software for Intel silicon at the Intel Wireless Networking Group (under Intel Mobility Group) for all flavors of Microsoft Desktop and Server Windows Operating Systems as part of Intel Centrino platform.
Feature design & implementation, code reviews & integration, Software change management, sizing, planning and module level resource allocation, debugging & defect resolution & collaborating across cross-site teams located at Intel sites across Israel, US & India.
In Intel Ethernet division (LAD), designed the software for Intel Ethernet devices to implement team and VLAN features.

Leadership DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesSystem ArchitectureSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Web ApplicationsComputer Networking

Xmedia & ligos

Senior System Software Engineer

Jul 2000 – Feb 2002 · 1 yr 7 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

As a senior software engineer, worked on designing & developing MPEG-4 streaming protocols and client server applications for Ligos Corporation, MPEG-R&D division USA.
Involved in project estimation, project planning, architecture and design, build a POC to get management approval, and form a team of seven technical members for the streaming group.
Feature design & implementation, code reviews & integration, planning and module level resource allocation.
Prior to this, worked for iVast Corporation USA on contract basis to design and implementation of MPEG-4 streaming protocols.

System ArchitectureWeb ApplicationsComputer Networking

Mphasis

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 1996 – Jun 2000 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a senior software engineer, worked on project planning, design & implementation of Network Management software. The software was used to manage ATM and ADSL switches for SAMSUNG Korea.
Worked in developing management software for satellite base stations and networking equipments for NEC Australia.
Worked on web based projects for different clients, including, Mantra Corporation USA and PDX InfoWorld Malaysia.

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