Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Transformed the offering from Hive Pro from a vulnerability prioritization technology to a complete TEM platform with code-to-cloud scanners fused with advanced vulnerability, threat, patch intelligence and advanced exposure validation (breach and attack simulation) capabilities
• Collaborating with fellow CXOs and important stake holders in all business functions to scale up and drive efficiencies in capturing the market
• Directing product management, platform roadmap, engineering, qa, customer support, threat intelligence and operations of the Hive Pro Cyber Security products, including SaaS in all the important dimensions (ease of use, sustained differentiation and scalability)
• Budgeting & Managing a motivated Team of 50+ which includes product management, engineering, qa, & customer support functions across multiple products of the platform.
• Established new and improved existing processes to accelerate product delivery
• Successfully Aligned Product Strategies and Teams towards a Unified Platform with shared vision & goals
• Instrumental in identifying, nurturing and cementing multiple complimentary technology alliances for scaling rapidly
• Led the successful establishment of fully owned Hive Pro India subsidiary
• Played pivotal role in improving product messaging and marketing to accelerate customer acquisitions
• Led and delivered Hive Pro Threat Exposure Management SaaS offerings
• Road mapped GenAI initiatives at Hive Pro improving productivity
• Established customer success and customer support functions with successful, repeatable processes
• Instrumental in transforming pre-sales, platform demo and poc efficiencies
• Drove setting up of innovative reward and recognitions policy improving employee satisfaction and retention
• And enjoying the journey as we march together on the growth path....!

Aug 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Member of Senior Leadership Team (SLT), driving strategy, direction & management of product development at Couchbase India R&D
• Worked with high profile customers and leaders in product management to evolve the product roadmap keeping strategic long term goals in mind
• Been through the journey of a startup going IPO and the experience is invaluable
• Headed Secondary Indexing, Eventing (JavaScript lambda framework for server side programming, database triggers), Queues and Views (map-reduce indexing) Services of the Couchbase Data Platform.
• Grew a Strong Product Development Team globally by over 300% (from less than 10 to close to 30)
• Scaled Global Secondary Indexes from 100s to 10000 in a single Couchbase Cluster in a single release
• Delivered JavaScript based PL/SQL equivalent framework for User Defined Functions (UDFs)
• Lead Couchbase Messaging Service (Couchbase Queues & Topics) close to developer preview
• Delivered multiple full cycle releases including Collections support in Couchbase Server

Jul 2017 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs

• Heading Secondary Indexing, Eventing (Couchbase Functions, Scalable Timed Events) and Views Services of the Couchbase Data Platform.
• Grew the Team by over 100% in the first Year and took on additional product development ownership.
• Thoroughly enjoying building highly concurrent and highly scalable distributed systems software using golang and c++.
• Delivered 3 full cycle releases till date for the products owned.
• Working with global teams to solve complex storage and distributed systems problems.
• Contributing actively to product architecture, design & code

Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Headed Wireless LAN systems software and SD-WAN efforts under the BU.
• Delivered low level designs and overall UI mockups for the SD-WAN product in a very short time. Contributed to hardware specifications selection and prototyping.
• Delivered multiple WiNG OS enhancements around Wireless Spectrum Analysis and Network Analytics.
• Contributed significantly to Data Model and Cloud Integration post acquisition by Extreme Networks.
• Lead and kept the Team focused and motivated successfully post acquisition by Extreme Networks with Zero attrition.

Nov 2014 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Proposed, Architected, led and delivered an Advanced Cloud Managed Wireless LAN Solution for the WiNG5 OS using Service Oriented Architecture and Agile Methodologies (Zebra Azara, https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/networks/wireless-lan/wlan-solutions/azara.html).
• Azara supports Wireless LAN management, Network Analytics, Centralised Management of Captive-Portal and Indoor Location Analytics, all from a single dash board.
• Lead Azara from conception (version 0.1) to maturity (version 2.3).
• Proposed, architected, led and delivered Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Application Visibility and Control (AVC) capabilities in the WiNG5 OS.
• Architected, led and delivered advanced L2/L3 features in WiNG5 OS.
• Contributed to WIPS on Cloud Architecture and Design using Service Oriented Architecture.
• Collaborated with cross functional leaders, geo-distributed teams and third party software vendors to develop long-term product development, enhancements, innovation and integration strategies.
• Hands on with Coding, Debugging.
• Served as a Member of the Patent Review Committee, Enterprise Networks and Communications at Zebra Technologies.

May 2014 – Oct 2014 · 5 mos

• Architect-ed, led and delivered Advanced Firewalling and IPSEC Capabilities in the WiNG5 OS.
• Proposed and built advanced deep packet inspection capabilities in WiNG5 OS in-house at scale using DNS Cache, URL matching, SSL Certificate metadata extraction and Packet Flow Heuristics based techniques.
• Designed, led and delivered DNS Based Access Control capabilities in WiNG5 OS.
• Designed, led and delivered Secure LDAP support in WiNG5 OS.

Mar 2011 – May 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Focused on innovation, design and development of enterprise software features in Wireless LAN Switching products.
• My work resulted in a total of 5+ Patents, another 5+ Patent Pursues in areas related to WiFi/Datacom (http://patents.justia.com/inventor/jeelan-poola).
• Invented a method on Distributed Stateful Firewalling in Distributed Wireless Networks.
• Member of the Team which conceived and developed the Patented Adaptive Access Point (AAP) solution from Motorola.
• Invented a method to improve reliability of multicast traffic delivery over WLAN/WiFi networks.
• Invented a Scalable Reliable Multicast MPEG video stream delivery solution over WLAN/WiFi networks.
• Designed and Implemented Advanced Layer 2, Layer 3, Advanced Firewall Features in Motorola WLAN Switching Products.
• Core member of the WiNG5 OS Team. Expert in Distributed and Centralized WLAN Controller Architectures.
• Designed & Implemented IPv6 Layer-2 and Layer-3 Firewall
• Designed & Implemented Layer2 tunneling over IPv6.
• Designed & Implemented Traffic Load Balancing in a Distributed Layer2 Bridging System.
• Designed, Implemented & Lead IPSEC capabilities in WiNG5 OS.
• Contributed to the design of Bonjour GW, IPv6 Routing, IPv6 ND, MLD Snooping, Hole-196 Detection/Mitigation in Wireless IPv6 networks, Captive Portal for IPv6 Clients, L2TP/L2TPv3, VRRP, OSPF, IGMP, DHCP Snooping, Video Delivery Optimization over WLAN/WiFi, Virtualisation of Controller Software.
• Used Hashing (lookup3, cuckoo, custom etc.), Lock free Data Structures (CAS Lists),
• Fastpath, Bloom filters, Bitmaps, Architecture Specific Atomic Ops.

Apr 2009 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Designed & Implemented Layer 3 Firewall.
• Designed & Implemented NAT.
• Designed & Implemented Fast NAT Binding Reservation & Release.
• Designed & Implemented an innovative Layer2 NAT Feature
• Design & Lead Policy Based Routing (PBR) Implementation.

Dec 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Involved in brain storming and functional specifications to development and product release of end-to-end Enterprise Mobility Solutions involving WLAN Access Points, WLAN Switches, WiFi Mobile Units and other IP network gear.
• Member of the Team which conceived and developed the Patented Adaptive Access Point (AAP) solution from Motorola.
• Designed and Implemented software that makes an AAP adopt to Motorola WLAN Switches for plug-n-play operation and gives the ability to extend corporate VLANs securely (Over IPSEC) at remote locations automatically.

Apr 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Contributed to Functional Specifications, Development, Testing and release of enabling software for WiFi enabled mobile devices in Windows CE/Mobile platforms and C and C++ environment.
• Proposed and developed a patentable software idea which helps in initial configuration (a process called staging) of a protable mobile computer to make it usable in a production environment. This solution reduces the time required to do staging significantly.
• Contributed significantly in the Functional and Design specifications of a new release of Mobility Services Platform (Symbol's Mobile Device Management Software).
• Worked on a product which helps in enhancing voice quality of a VoIP over WLAN call on a Mobile Device.
• Worked on an XML based mobile device management agent software. This software helps in configuration, provisioning, monitoring and management of mobile devices.
• Lead a small team through this tenure technically.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 · 5 yrs

• Worked on development of different products in different roles during my tenure with Wipro.
• Specifically, worked on design and development of software that ran on Alcatel DSLAM products, Network Management Systems for Alcatel DSLAM products (SNMP Client, Server, Backend, SNMP Based User Interface, GUI), Test Automation Products for NM Systems of Alcatel (PERL Based, Automating SNMP Ops).
• Technologies worked on include ADSL Family, ATM, SONET/SDH, IP Networks, IGMP, VLAN.