Rishi Agarwal

Product Manager

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led multiple successful 0 to 1 product launches.
Expert in building and mentoring product management teams.
Proven track record in strategic planning and execution.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing expert with extensive product management experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementInfrastructureFraud PreventionCloud SecurityCybersecurity

Other Skills

AIOpsAds Platforms and fraudApplication Security: WAF, anti-DDoS, Bot ManagementBig DataBusiness Portfolio ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingCompetitor and Pricing assessmentsCustomer AcquisitionData Platforms: batch, real-time analyticsData Security and PrivacyFraud DetectionGTM StrategyGenerative AIGenerative AI/ LLMs/RAG, and ML (supervised/unsupervised learning)Go-to-market Strategies

About

Product Executive with proven experience in: • Multiple 0 to 1 product launches • Portfolio analysis and management of product lines with multiple products at varying stages of the lifecycle • Building and managing team of product managers and mentoring them • Identifying Buy vs Build vs Partner opportunities and presenting what-if scenarios • Strategic Planning FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE: • Product Management • Go-to-market Strategies (market segmentation, targeting, pricing, packaging, positioning, and sales channels) • Growth Strategies • Competitor and Pricing assessments • Voice of Customer (VOC)-driven Differentiated Value Propositions • M&A DOMAIN EXPERIENCE: • Trust and Safety • Data Platforms: batch, real-time analytics • Generative AI/ LLMs/RAG, and ML (supervised/unsupervised learning) • Ads Platforms and fraud • Data Security and Privacy • Identity and Access Management • Zero Trust Cloud Security: Secure Access, DNS, SWG, CASB, DLP, Firewall • Application Security: WAF, anti-DDoS, Bot Management • SaaS /Cloud Computing: Public / Private /Hybrid Cloud, microservices, containers

Experience

22 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Product Management Leader - Technical

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

Maintained Amazon's customers trust by keeping their data and workloads secure and privacy compliant.
Own and drive the vision, strategy and roadmap for an identity security (IAM) platform providing highly distributed and available global services that:
Harness the power of AI (Machine Learning and LLMs/RAG) to improve security and user experience
Incorporate latest security standards: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), FIDO2.0, passkeys, ABAC, RBAC etc.
Ensure regulatory compliance (ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, FIPS, ITAR, FedRAMP, GDPR)

InfrastructureProduct StrategyTeam ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder ManagementGrowth Hacking+7

Human

Vice President Of Product Management

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Owned vision, strategy and roadmap execution of digital fraud prevention and application security platform (petabyte scale) powered by 350+ machine learning algorithms delivering millisecond speed 20 Trillion weekly decisions that are highly accurate in detecting bad actors without any friction to good human users.

Customer AcquisitionTeam ManagementSoftware Product ManagementBusiness Portfolio ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder Management+7

Vmware

Director of Product Management

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Owned the vision, strategy and roadmap for VMware's SASE platform for Cloud Networking and Security. This platform differentiates with AIOps, unified UX and low latency. Solutions included Zero Trust Network Access (Identity-driven security) and Cloud Security ( SWG, DLP, CASB, RBI, Firewall, etc.) combined with leading SDWAN capabilities.

InfrastructureCustomer AcquisitionTeam ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder ManagementStrategic Communications+5

Cisco

Product Management Leader

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Owned vision, strategy and roadmap for product-led growth and Managed Cloud Security (Cisco Umbrella) for products including ML-driven DNS Security, Cloud Firewall, CASB, DLP, SWG and integrations with SDWAN
Led GTM strategy to focus on driving Sales through partners such as ISPs, MSPs, MSSPs, etc.

InfrastructureCustomer AcquisitionTeam ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder ManagementGrowth Hacking+6

Nominum

Director of Product Management

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Nominum was acquired by Akamai in 2017.
Product Management Leader for DNS-based Cloud SaaS Cyber Security solutions built using predictive intelligence derived from Big Data & Machine Learning (supervised and unsupervised). These are highly scalable solutions that use Kafka, Vertica and InfluxDB for data pipeline, and are sold to Enterprises, SMBs and Service Providers.
These solutions positioned Nominum to be acquired by Akamai.

InfrastructureCustomer AcquisitionTeam ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder ManagementStrategic Communications+5

Nsfocus

Product , Program Management and Marketing

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Led Product Strategy, Customer and Market Research, Pricing, User Experience Design, Technical Program Management and Product Development for: Anti-DDoS and Web Security Solutions
Evangelized solutions; quoted in leading technology and business journals

Customer AcquisitionTeam ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder ManagementStrategic CommunicationsStrategy+2

Arbor networks, the security division of netscout

Strategy | Product Management

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Greater Boston Area

In 2014, NETSCOUT acquired Arbor Networks from Danaher Corporation, a global conglomerate.

InfrastructureCustomer AcquisitionTeam ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder ManagementStrategic Communications+3

Thermo fisher scientific

2 roles

Strategy & Corporate Development

Promoted

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Greater Boston Area

InfrastructureCustomer AcquisitionTeam ManagementCollaborative Decision-makingStakeholder ManagementStrategic Communications+3

Corporate Strategy - Internship

Jun 2009 – Aug 2009 · 2 mos

Stakeholder ManagementStrategic CommunicationsStrategyProduct Validation

Sandisk

Product Management & Engineering

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

Intel corporation

Product Development

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs · Portland, Oregon Area

• Implemented Big Data Techniques and Analytics on Fab Data (before it was called "Big Data")

Infosys

Software Application Development

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

Managed team of software engineers through complete software development lifecycle - Requirements Management, Analysis & Design, Quality Assurance (Testing), Implementation, Deployment, Configuration and Change Management