Mar 2025 – Sep 2025 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• As a Technology Leader, I combine deep security expertise with people-centric leadership to build and scale Thales’s Imperva WAF Cloud offering. Over 14+ years I’ve progressed from individual contributor to guiding cross-functional teams, defining technical strategy, and delivering mission-critical cloud WAF solutions.
• Technology Leadership & Architecture
• Own the end-to-end design of our multi-tenant WAF platform on AWS (K8s, Lambda, API Gateway), embedding DDoS protection and OWASP defenses.
• Drive threat modeling and security controls aligned to NIST & PCI DSS—reducing our exploit surface by 45%.
• Product Roadmap & Delivery
• Partner with Product, QA, and Customer Success to translate market needs (API security, RASP, bot mitigation) into a prioritized roadmap—achieving 95% on-time feature releases.
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies (planning, demos, retrospectives), increasing team velocity by 30%.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Serve as the primary liaison among Engineering, DevOps, SOC and UX—ensuring seamless WAF policy integration into CI/CD pipelines and customer dashboards.
• Host bi-weekly security review boards with senior stakeholders to align on threat intelligence and release readiness.
• Process, Quality & Metrics
• Implement automated SAST/DAST pipelines and chaos-testing for WAF rules—cutting production incidents by 60%.
• Define and track key KPIs (false-positive rate, rule-deployment time, response latency) in Grafana, driving a 50% faster incident response.
• Introduced IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD (GitLab CI), shrinking environment-provisioning from days to hours.

Apr 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Global Collaboration with Japan HQ
• Partnered with Toshiba Corporation’s Grid Automation Center of Excellence (Japan) to define and standardize SCADA and IEC 61850–based architectures for flagship projects including GR-TIEMS and Densei-BU power systems.
• Cross-Regional Team Leadership
• Led a distributed team of 25+ engineers across India, US, Europe and APAC—running weekly leadership syncs, quarterly performance reviews and targeted career­growth workshops to maintain 24/7 operational coverage .
• GR-TIEMS Platform Delivery
• Spearheaded the Grid Transmission Intelligent Electronic Management System (GR-TIEMS), a Windows-based IED control tool that improved grid reliability by 50% and reduced fault-response time by 45%.
• Process Automation & Innovation
• Implemented IEC 61850 workflow automation and validation pipelines, cutting manual testing overhead by 70% and boosting team efficiency by 60%.
• 360° Performance & OKR Framework
• Instituted a structured OKR/KPI program aligned to business goals—driving a 30% uplift in productivity and clear development pathways for all engineers.
• Awards & Recognition
• ROA Graph Excellence Award (Japan HQ Annual Award) for outstanding grid-reliability improvements
• Process Innovation Award (Japan HQ Annual Award) for pioneering automation pipelines
• 7× Annual Awards from Toshiba HQ for leadership and strategic impact
• 17× Spot Awards over 5 years for critical deliverables and cross-functional collaboration

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• In this role I blended deep embedded-systems expertise with cross-functional analysis to accelerate delivery of grid-automation solutions:
• Requirements & System Modeling
• Collaborated with Japan HQ and field‐engineering teams to elicit and document functional requirements for IEC 61850-compliant SCADA integration, producing UML sequence and state diagrams that reduced downstream change requests by 30%.
• Embedded Firmware Design
• Architected and developed multithreaded firmware in Embedded C/C++ and Objective-C on Linux and RTOS platforms, introducing object-oriented patterns that cut code duplication by 40% and improved maintainability.
• Cross-Platform Integration Services
• Built C# WCF services to bridge microcontroller telemetry with SQL-backed telemetry stores and dashboards, enabling real-time visibility into field device health and reducing mean time to detection by 25%.
• Automated Debugging & Diagnostics
• Designed a custom logging and diagnostic framework—integrating gdb, tracepoints and embedded-Linux printk—to slash critical bug-triage time in half.
• CI/CD & Quality Improvements
• Implemented Jenkins-driven build pipelines for Embedded Linux and Windows components, integrating static analysis (Cppcheck) and unit testing to decrease regression defects by 20%.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship
• Led workshops on multithreading, Linux kernel internals and object-oriented design for 5+ engineers and interns, fostering a shared best-practices culture.
• Agile Collaboration
• Acted as the nexus between firmware, electrical design, QA and field-support teams—running bi-weekly syncs and design reviews that boosted sprint predictability by 15%.
• Key Technologies & Skills: Embedded C/C++, Objective-C, Multithreading, OOP, Embedded Linux, RTOS, C#, WCF, SQL, Microcontrollers, Linux, Windows Communication Foundation, Debugging Frameworks.

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Delivered high-performance embedded and integration solutions for grid-automation products, collaborating across firmware, middleware, and backend teams:
• Multithreaded Firmware & Drivers
• Architected and implemented real-time, multithreaded firmware in Embedded C/C++ on Linux and RTOS platforms—improving task-latency determinism by 30%.
• Optimized Linux kernel drivers for I/O boards, reducing interrupt-handling overhead by 25%.
• Object-Oriented Design & Code Reuse
• Designed modular, object-oriented frameworks in C++ and Objective-C for device abstraction layers—cutting code duplication by 40% and accelerating feature rollout.
• Established coding standards and static-analysis checks (Cppcheck, Clang-Tidy) to enforce consistent design patterns.
• Integration Services & Back-End Connectivity
• Developed C# WCF microservices to bridge microcontroller telemetry with SQL Server back-ends, enabling real-time dashboards and reducing ETL bottlenecks by 35%.
• Implemented RESTful APIs and data-validation pipelines for secure, scalable telemetry ingestion.
• Debugging & Diagnostics Framework
• Developed a unified logging/tracepoint system combining gdb scripting and embedded-Linux printk, slashing mean time to resolution for critical faults by 50%.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing
• Mentored 3 junior engineers on multithreading, OOP best practices and embedded-Linux internals through weekly pairing sessions and brown-bag talks.
• Co-organized “Embedded Deep Dive” workshops, training 15+ team members on RTOS scheduling and performance profiling.
• Key Technologies: Embedded C/C++, Objective-C, Multithreading, OOP, Embedded Linux, RTOS, C#, WCF, SQL Server, Jenkins CI, Python scripting, Kernel driver development, Static analysis.

Apr 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• In this role I combined deep embedded-systems expertise with hands-on technical leadership—guiding a global team of 80+ engineers to deliver our 4D trajectory optimization module for Boeing and Airbus FMS products.
• Technical Leadership at Scale
• Led technical design and code standards for a cross-disciplinary cohort of 80+ software, controls and QA engineers—ensuring consistency across graph-based pathfinding and real-time subsystems.
• 4D Trajectory Optimization & Graph Algorithms
• Architected and implemented hybrid Dijkstra/A* algorithms in Embedded C/C++ on VxWorks—integrating real-time weather, airspace constraints and aircraft performance models.
• Introduced heuristic pruning and incremental re-optimization, cutting computation latency by 30% and enabling sub-100 ms dynamic reroutes.
• Performance Tuning & Resource Optimization
• Optimized memory footprint and CPU utilization on safety-critical avionics hardware—achieving 25% lower cycle time under DO-178B/C constraints.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Orchestrated design reviews and compliance checkpoints with avionics hardware, systems engineering and certification teams (FAA/EASA), ensuring deterministic outputs and ARINC 429 interoperability.
• Mentorship & Process Improvement
• Mentored five junior engineers through weekly brown-bag sessions on real-time scheduling and graph theory, accelerating their ramp-up by 50%.
• Established a peer-review process and static analysis gates (Cppcheck, Clang-Tidy), reducing critical defects by 40%.
• Systems Integration & Validation
• Directed system-level M&S simulations and hardware-in-the-loop testing, delivering 99.9% output consistency across thousands of flight scenarios.
• Impact & Recognition
• Enabled airlines to achieve a 15% fuel savings—translating to millions in annual cost reductions and significant CO₂ emission cuts.
• Awarded Honeywell’s “Excellence in Engineering” spot awards for rapid problem-solving during live flight tests.

Mar 2011 – Feb 2020 · 8 yrs 11 mos