Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · On-site

• We are hiring - firstly customers & champions who want to join us in making “your data your business” a real reality. And yes we are always also hiring top hungry talent for our sales, engineering, product and GTM teams.
• we’re redefining the data landscape. Our mission: empower users by making their data universally accessible and highly valuable, all while placing paramount importance on privacy and user control. We've introduced groundbreaking tools like HushhPDA, the first personal data assistant powered by your AI, and HushhFeed, a pioneering personal social magazine with integrated social commerce. These user-centric platforms are designed to work tirelessly behind the scenes, ensuring your data serves you best, syncing seamlessly with both personal and business apps.
• Central to our ecosystem is the Hushh "wallet as a service," a robust personal and business datalake foundation integrating core data analytics, search, chatbot capabilities, and comprehensive data management—all powered by the user's private on-device cloud, the hushhpkm. This foundation is further enriched by our developer ecosystem, hussh.dev, fostering innovation and collaboration.
• Our portfolio, including the flagship HushhApp for consumers and agents, is designed for seamless data sharing, enhancing personalization and user experience. With the 🤫 button, we extend this seamless experience to every web and mobile app developer, offering a white-label solution for data integration. Our suite—Hushh Vibe Search, Valet Chat, and Concierge—embodies our commitment to discreet, efficient communication, leveraging the finest AI and data tools from open-source and cloud technologies.
• Through partnerships and community engagement, we aim to build a more ethical, user-empowered data ecosystem. Our vision extends beyond current offerings; we foresee a world where AI and data tutors become a new category of professionals, dedicated to helping users navigate the burgeoning data ai landscape.

Apr 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · On-site

• Investor Committed to a Sophisticated Portfolio for the 🤫 Family and Friends' Fund
• With Berkshire Hathaway as the cornerstone, our fund integrates six additional growth and value-driven businesses, reflecting the timeless principles of Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Jim Simons, and Ray Dalio. Leveraging AI alongside human insight, we aim to generate risk-adjusted returns (net alpha) while upholding simplicity, humility, and cost-efficiency. Our mission is to steward wealth with responsibility, ensuring long-term value creation at the lowest possible cost.
• Explore our investment philosophy further https://bit.ly/3AwGIx2

May 2019 – Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

• Nov 2021 Onwards: Product Lead (strategy & engineering) in Core Developer responsible for our Cross Google Engineering (xGE), Software Foundations for Google CoreInfra and Hybrid Cloud Platform Business Portfolio. My team builds products , platform and tooling to help Google developers build the best experiences delivering $xxB in GOOG Revenue
• For our core developer products and solutions please see https://developers.google.com/ to learn more on building for the world with Google tech.
• I’m very interested in research area around enhancing engineering excellence and innovation for developers and engineering audiences leveraging the best of AI and quantum developer tech. Please reach out if you can help anyway.
• May 2019-Nov 2021:
• Lead the Product Management organization responsible for the full portfolio of Google's core compute IaaS VM products. This product portfolio delivers a rapidly growing GCP Compute IaaS revenue ($XB) as well as supports indirect revenue from a range of other Google Cloud PaaS and SaaS services including GKE, CloudSQL, CloudAI, Bigquery, Spanner and others.
• Specifically my business focus was on growing our GCP AI and Compute product and engineering organization responsible for Google's Accelerated Computing ML-Infrastructure (TPU, GPU and HPC) portfolio of products & services, serving our internal & external users on their exascale computing needs and breaking new barriers for AI and HPC production and research workloads with our users and industry community/partners
• Quick note about openings on my team:
• We are looking to fill several Leadership and IC roles on my team . The ideal candidates will be someone passionate about doing state of the art development and product work (both frontend, backend and
• data science) in areas of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Data Analytics with proven track record of building awesome products and working across cross-functional teams delivering all our users value. If interested, please email me.

Aug 2018 – May 2019 · 9 mos

• Led new Advanced analytics and ML products growth from $0M to $500M ARR between 2015- 2019. Founder of Machine Learning Toolkit (aka Splunk MLTK) which is the most downloaded and loved product on Splunk App Store.
• Responsible for Splunk’s Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning Portfolio across our Enterprise, Cloud, Security and IT Market Solutions & Services including Core Enterprise and Apps, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK), IT Service Intelligence & Splunk Enterprise Security products.

Oct 2016 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Responsible for Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning Portfolio for Splunk across our Enterprise, Cloud, Security and IT Market Solutions & Services including Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK), IT Service Intelligence & Splunk Enterprise Security product.

Sep 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Responsible for Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning Portfolio for Splunk across our Enterprise, Cloud, Security and IT Market Solutions & Services including Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK), IT Service Intelligence & Splunk Enterprise Security product.

Nov 2011 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Product Lead for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (AzureML)
• Responsible for portfolio & business strategy and development combining customer and partner feedback to set the strategic vision and leading the execution of new features and products for a v1 offering to support the Machine Learning engineer & data scientist persona in the cloud primarily focused on advanced analytics (data science, mining, predictive analytics, machine learning and large scale compute workloads).
• Defining the product strategy, roadmap and plan
• Drive product definition and planning through functional specification and product plans based on customer focus groups, design review meetings and competitive analysis.
• Delivering vision and requirements documents with prioritized features and corresponding justification
• Working with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
• Running beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples
• Driving competitive analysis and value proposition differentiation
• Delivering product demos to customers & prospects
• Briefing and training the sales force on new product capabilities and positioning
• Managing relationships with technology partners
• Collaborating with product marketing on messaging, and go-to-market strategies
• Participating with strategic customers as a trusted advisor to ensure their success and manage escalations, requirements analysis and product planning activities
• Delivering strategic product briefings to customer executives
• Present product capabilities, vision, value propositions, and roadmap briefings to customers, prospects, the Microsoft sales and field teams
• Collaborated with the Customer and User Experience teams in defining the Data Scientist persona

Mar 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Product Lead for a Incubation/v1 product called HPC & AI Computing Workbench aka Codename Miletus that spanned a client application, a new language and a cloud service targeting domain and data specialists (engineers, statisticians, quantitative analysts) working on HPC & data intensive workloads with a goal to disrupt and drive innovation via driving ease of use at scale.
• Accomplishments:
• Developed the 5 year vision and roadmap for the product with Senior Leaders across Engineering, Marketing and Planning from the Server and Tools / DevDiv Business
• Wrote functional and technical specifications and build key partnerships with strategic groups within Microsoft
• Evangelized product and feature sets by designing, developing and delivering live demos and presentations to Fortune 500 customers and partners at industry conferences
• Collaborated with the UX and Research Teams on developing the user personas and landing the end-to-end user interface design for Workbench via focus groups/surveys
• Collaborated with the Planning team on competitive product strategy
• Collaborated with various teams across geographies on requirements and design such as the high performance computing (HPC) team based in Redmond/China, a compiler language team in Redmond and numerical libraries team based in Boston
• Defined, adopted and evangelized agile product management processes across the group
• Led the Technical Computing Customer Advisory Board with external and internal customers and MVPs
• Led the Software Design Review (SDR) event in Redmond with customers from Fortune 500 companies show-casing what we plan to deliver as part of the v1 offering to gather early feedback in the product cycle for further improvements in future milestones.

May 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

• The Windows Live Storage platform is the largest centralized cloud data storage platform across Microsoft online properties and one of the biggest SQL Server 2K8 implementations in the world(1500 servers). The platform is consumed by over 100 partners such as Messenger, Skydrive, Office Live hosting about 2.5 PB for ~400 million active users.
• Accomplishments:
• Supported the WLS Platform team with extremely high levels of availability (99.982%) considering a 25.1% YoY growth in server count, 37% YoY growth in traffic and 120% YoY growth in total storage space consumed while reducing the CapEX costs by $3.4M, achieving OpEx savings of $4.1M (18% of OpEx Budget) while supporting the Windows Live Wave 3 and 4.
• Upped the bar for Window Live Services by driving and increasing the service availability goals of WLS from 99.8% to 99.9% by driving and implementing projects to improve service monitoring, alerting & platform improvements.
• Responsible for owning and managing the Annual OpEx budget of $18M and a CapEx Budget of $7M for EOL server replacements and organic growth, management reporting of budget on a quarterly basis.
• Drove several optimization's resulting in 33% redux in Deployment times from 3 to 2 weeks; 66% redux in Incident Volume; Backup optimization's in Storage resulting ~ $ 1.1 M OPEX savings (57% savings in Backup Costs), 45% redux in false alarm counts, 86% redux in Monitoring points resulting in savings $40K/mo in OpEx, 30% redux in Bandwidth costs by implementing an abuse detection solution and thus improving service performance by 3X (Peak RPS)
• Drove the SPOF Analysis of the Network and Infrastructure architecture and design which helped define and design the future stamps thus improving operational availability and manageability.
• Completed all SQL2K8 upgrades across all live-site servers while maintaining 99.99% Read / 99.90% Write Availability. This work entailed upgrading a total of ~435 servers for a total of 24TB of SQL Data.

Oct 2006 – May 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Directed the services product development and sales for the AT&T account in the role of an Account and Deployment Manager.
• Collaborated with the Sales and Practice Management team to ensure success for the AT&T services practice. Worked across internal and external organizations to drive overall customer success.
• Led and managed teams a high performance team of Client FTE’s & Motive Professional services employees spanning various roles such as business analysts, UI designers, application developers, testers and system administrators
• Managed several project implementations, responsible for requirements gathering, construction, verification, Go-Live and operate stages of the project lifecycle.
• Identified and managed project scope, burn rate and budget for all projects ranging from $500K to $4M in billed revenue for the AT&T account
• Analyzed call center KPIs (Contact Rate, Average Handle Time, First Call Resolution, Non-Quality Dispatch) to identify inefficiencies and focus cost saving efforts.
• Developed plan to productize and position Motive’s internal customer care tools and drove related sales cycle with AT&T executives.
• Synthesized information from customer insights, competitive analysis and business requirements to develop AT&T’s product and solution roadmap.
• Led project scoping discussions, statement of work development and negotiated consulting, licensing and hosting contracts with the customer.

Mar 2003 – Oct 2006 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Clients Included: Sun Microsystems, Adobe, TXU (Texas Utilities), ING US Financial Services, Citibank, Merrill Lynch & Lowes
• Software Architect and led teams of 4 to 8 developers in building web-based applications for Fortune 500 companies
• Responsible for project management & life-cycle planning, requirements gathering, application development, testing & implementation
• Led and managed offshore and near shore projects with onsite and virtual teams across several geographies (Canada, India, USA)
• Advised CXO-level executives in hi-tech and financial services companies on operations and technology strategy resulting in several million dollar savings.
• Top 10% of peer class, promoted ahead of schedule
• Selected to be E&Y's and Capgemini's Primary Subject Matter Expert on Analytics and Data Science from >100 Broadvision technology practitioners

May 2001 – Aug 2001 · 3 mos

• Applications Developer on the trading desk team
• Customized and implemented the Thinkmap applet so it could be used within the domain of equity traders. This involved an in depth understanding of the Thinkmap API and re-using several applet classes
• Developed two web-based tools using JSP, XML, Oracle, Sybase, SAPweb and Thinkmap for the Equities trading visualization application which resulted in a net saving of over $1 million/month. ROI on the trading visualization application was estimated to be over 1000%
• XMLized the data for future web services using JSP. Developed a XSLT to retrieve the data from the XML page
• Developed USE CASES based on the visualization project for other business groups to leverage