Aug 2024 – Apr 2025 · 8 mos · Hybrid · Hybrid

• Confluent, pioneer of Apache Kafka offers realtime data streaming platform to enable organizations to connect, ingest, govern, stream, process data across different applications and infrastructures.
• Led the definition and execution of product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Confluent’s new Hybrid Cloud initiative, enabling both self-managed and vendor-managed data management capabilities across On-premise, Self-Managed and CSPs.
• Responsible areas of data management:
• Hybrid Cloud Data Governance
• Observability
• Enterprise Grade capabilities like Resiliency, Security, Scalability.
• Deployments/Eco-system platforms
• Data Privacy/ Data Masking

Apr 2024 – Aug 2024 · 4 mos · Hybrid · Hybrid

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led Product Management & GTM team for NetApp Data Protection (Backup & DR) for Applications and Virtual Machines products.
• Developed strategies for Enterprise storage, Hybrid Cloud, and Multi Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Differentiated NetApp's storage offerings with NetApp SnapCenter and SnapCenter Service.
• Collaborated with teams to enhance NetApp's Application and VM products.
• Introduced Applications Disaster Recovery and Application Ransomware Protection to widen competitive advantages and improve Attach rate.
• Products: NetApp, SnapManager, NetApp SnapCenter, NetApp SnapCenter Service, NetApp BlueXP Backup & DR Service
• Applications: ERP and databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc. and other Open source databases
• Infrastructure: VMware Virtual Machines, Azure VMware Service, VMware Cloud, Google Cloud VMware Engine
• 1st Party offerings: Azure NetApp Files, Amazon FSxN, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

Apr 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Manage Applications and VMware data protection solutions from NetApp.
• Responsible for App and VM data protection product line:
• Cloud Backup for Apps & VMs
• SnapCenter
• SnapCenter Service (SaaS Platform)

Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Product School Pro is an invitation only think-tank for Product Leaders. As a "founding 200 member", I network with product professionals from leading tech companies and sharpen the saw with exclusive educational resources.
• As one of the most exclusive community for Product Leaders, members include real-world Product Leaders working at top companies including Airbnb, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, NetApp, Netflix, PayPal, Uber etc.
• The community is designed to support the professional development of product professionals at high growth companies, facilitate the sharing of best practices, and serve as a trusted space to discuss business critical issues with the comfort of privacy and confidentiality.

Oct 2019 – Apr 2020 · 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Responsible for:
• SummitAI ITOM (AIOps / Artificial Intelligence Powered Ops) and
• Platform products
• Building products to make customer's digital infrastructure intelligence efficient and ensure business continuity by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered ITOM, ITAM, ITSM line of products.
• IT Operations Analytics
• Orchestration and RPA
• Strategic integrations
• Smartcity and e-Governance

Oct 2015 – Oct 2019 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for:
• Citrix License Manager

May 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for:
• Citrix License Administrator

Sep 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for:
• Citrix License Administrator
• Setup, maintain and plan Citrix License Labs in Bengaluru

Jun 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Green-Hands is my first entrepreneurial venture towards bringing a green revolution to utilize the vertical idle spaces while increasing aesthetics for retail consumers. Took it from idea-tion to execution of the company and the product and services. Led Marketing, Operations and Strategy of the organization.
• Owned and was responsible for:
• Validation of business idea.
• Creation of business Model.
• Product Go-To Strategy.
• Product revenue models
• Product envisioning and strategy.
• Define STP for services and products
• Market Research and user Interviews.
• Customer development and acquisitions.
• Creation of Minimum Viable Service (MVS)
• Evaluate, negotiate and on-board partners and suppliers.
• Align operations and marketing strategy for different SBUs

Oct 2008 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsibilities:
• Engaged and negotiated with large partners like Microsoft, Dell, Sony for better user experience.
• Monitored market, analyzed competitors and engaged beta customers for faster time to market.
• System test of McAfee standalone and suite of desktop security products.
• Performance testing of McAfee Consumer security suite of apps.

Oct 2005 – Oct 2008 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• uOne, an enterprise unified messaging platform product to access voice/fax/email/multimedia/SMS /video messages targeted at Telecom Operators, had more that 72% market share.
• Responsibilities:
• Quality/validation of telecom product with different Telecom service providers
• Fixing bugs identified in UAT Testing
• Achievement:
• Received best "Tiger" award for Telecom Italia project.
• Became SPOC for 3 European Telecom majors in uOne.