Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• AI agents platform for e-commerce

Jun 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs

Sep 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Aug 2017 – Jun 2024 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Part of the senior leadership team, joined pre-IPO and helped the company scale and grow to become the global leader of fashion e-commerce.
• Managed over $50M in technology spending (cloud, security and devtools) and global teams across Europe, US, China and India building the core tech platform for Farfetch Marketplace and B2B business. Led transformation of the technology platform towards automation of devops lifecycle, always-on security and compliance (SOC2, PCI-DSS & GDPR), cost aware cloud scaling and modernise AI/ML and Data platforms. Managed one of the largest Azure cloud infrastructure in Europe.

Aug 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 · 7 yrs

• Observe.AI, Dig Security, Dataloop AI, Env0, Firefly AI, Velocity AI, Last9, CloudThread, Genius Teacher, GetMega, Neuroblade, Watchtowr

Apr 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

• At its peak Snapdeal had over 35 million product catalog, 300,000 sellers and close to half a million daily transactions. As part of the engineering leadership team, helped to re-build and scale the technology team and platform to enable the hyper growth of the company.
• Responsible for the entire Snapdeal core Infrastructure, cloud platform, platform-as-service, DevOps, Information security, 3rd party integrations, vendor management and technology platform budget. Envisioned the next generation cloud platform at Snapdeal called “Snapdeal Cirrus”. It’s one of the largest Hybrid cloud platforms in the world with a fully automated Infrastructure as code design.
• Re-engineered the Snapdeal technology stack into a modern micro-service architecture using open source technologies and fully automated CI/CD release pipeline. Built several platforms as services like big data platform, database-as-a-service, central messaging service, notification services etc.
• Initiated several key programs e.g. ISO 27001 security, CISA audit, SSO, Data lifecycle management, consolidation of business processes, Bug bashes, Design Summits, Hackathons etc.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• (Acquired by Ignite Technologies)
• ScaleArc is the leading provider of database load balancing software. It inserts transparently between applications and databases, creating an agile data tier that provides continuous availability and increased performance for all apps on both on premise and in the cloud.
• As part of the executive team helped in planning, R&D and execution of the product strategy and technology roadmap. Worked closely with all key customers e.g. Microsoft, Dell from first engagement to final deployment. As the head of India operations, managed development centers in Mumbai and expanded to Pune. Built a highly experienced engineering team to develop a world class enterprise product.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Santa Clara

• (Acquired by VMWare)
• CloudVelox, formerly known as CloudVelocity, is the first company to deliver an automated cloud migration and disaster recovery platform specifically developed for the unique operating demands of existing, multi-tier apps.
• As part of the founding team, helped in research and development of the software that enabled blueprinting, migration and initialization of multi-tier applications from physical or virtual infrastructure to AWS and OpenStack cloud. The project required deep integration with cloud orchestration APIs, cloud storage, cloud network, cloud security and Linux & Windows OS internals.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · San Francisco

• Symantec Data Loss Prevention (Vontu acquisition) is a 8-time leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for content-aware DLP. It discovers, monitors, protect and manage confidential data wherever it’s stored and used – across endpoints, mobile devices, network and storage systems. It helps protect companies from malicious insiders and well-meaning employees.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2009 · 6 yrs · San Jose

• (via Neopath Networks acquired by Cisco)
• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches create the network foundation for your next-generation Unified Fabric data center. Modular switches, including the Cisco Nexus 7000 and 7700 Series, deliver a comprehensive Cisco NX-OS feature set and open source programmable tools for software-defined network (SDN) deployments. They offer high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet with application awareness and performance analytics.
• Developed several core routing and platform features e.g. forwarding information base (FIB) enhancements and In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU).
• Neopath Networks is a provider of file storage management solutions. It built a file storage software solution that allows its clients to balance and utilize existing file storage capacity. The company's products simplify and advance file storage management for networked attached storage and other file servers, and increase storage utilization. It served financial services, government, hosted services, aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, and education industries. NeoPath was founded in 2002 and got acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007.
• As one of the early engineers at NeoPath Networks, I help built the NFS and CIFS protocol director as a network appliance that resides in-band between file servers (NetApp, EMC, Linux, Windows) and clients, and provides file storage management capabilities, including namespace virtualization and globalization, safe and non-disruptive file migrations, real-time file characterization and analysis, and policy-based file management.