sridhar S.

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States23 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led development of Edge Gateway platform for diverse verticals.
Spearheaded API/SDK launch connecting global enterprises.
Expert in SD-WAN and multi-cloud solutions.

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

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStrategic PartnershipsCloud ComputingNew Venture DevelopmentIt Operations

Other Skills

SD-WANAISecurityMarket ResearchTelemetryZero-TrustMulti-cloudAutomationMicroservicesAPI DevelopmentDevOpsWeb DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesPartnershipsIncident Management

About

Extensive breadth in Business, Product, and Engineering roles. Like to work on New areas, Turnaround or Operations. Areas of expertise: IT, OT, Security, SaaS, Multi-cloud, SDWAN, ZTNA, Telemetry, Collaboration, Data Center, AI, Web apps.

Experience

23 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Ruckus networks

Director PM - Branch/Edge GW

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Hybrid

Network Edge Gateway | Tunnel Aggregator — Senior Product Manager
Led strategy and execution for a single-pane Edge Gateway platform targeting MDU, Hospitality, SMB, and K-12 verticals — protecting a $250M installed base with a 20% wallet expansion target.
Defined and launched 4 HW SKUs with DHCP, NAT, SD-WAN, WireGuard, S2S VPN, and VXLAN tunneling capabilities. Drove HW selection decisions (CPU, PoE, SFP28, CM), BOM pricing, licensing models, and device registration workflows. Negotiated security partnerships with WebRoot and ENEA for inline flow security integration.
Identify AI/AIOps use cases and feature development and instrumentation to enable them.
Owned L2 Tunnel Aggregator product — enabling seamless campus roaming across buildings and APs for Higher Ed, MWL, and Enterprise verticals.
Conducted market research, partner/customer interviews, and competitive analysis against Cisco, Aruba, Juniper, and Meraki to inform roadmap prioritization, SKU strategy, and E-Rate positioning for K-12. Built strategic partnerships with SSE and 5G vendors to deliver holistic edge-to-cloud solutions. Represented product at industry shows and partner events.

SD-WANAISecurityMarket ResearchProduct ManagementStrategic Partnerships

Cisco

PM- Infra, NGFW, SDWAN, ZTNA, Telemetry

May 2018 – Feb 2025 · 6 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Discover, Define, Execute, Onboard Partners, Customers in new segments. 0-1, Cradle to Grave handling of products, spanning Product definition, GTM and Engineering execution.
1) Secure SDWAN - Device onboarding, Templates- Device and Service.
2)Private SASE Hub: Automation and Orchestration of VNFs in a NFV X86 hypervisor Hub. Colo as middle mile to connect SDWAN/VPN data to Cloud/SIG.
3) Telemetry: Data Insights for Product Expansion, Feature adoption, Customer migration.
4) CIS Benchmark/AIOPs - Provide best secure settings for product usage and best practise assessment. Provide Roadmap, Collateral, Pricing/GTM, Product Architecture. Evangelize product, work with sales, solution architects, partners, and customers in successful deployments, and translate feedback into product improvements.
5) Complaince adherance: Look at NIST, CUI, CMMC, SP800-171 CSA CCM cloud security compliance needs and feature enhancements
6) Zero-Trust - Browser-based ZTNA deployment using SAML/MFA.
7)SIEM: Improve Syslog and Path Trace to enhance Observability.
8) Multi-cloud integration, leverage private links for secure low latency high bandwidth connections.
Engage customers and field on winloss analysis. Work with Field, Partners on GTM motions.

SD-WANTelemetryZero-TrustMulti-cloudAutomationProduct Management+1

Equinix

Product Manager/Owner, Equinix Cloud Exchange

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale

Migrate from Monolithic to Microservices. Spearheaded the launch of an API/SDK for Web Portal to connect Global 2000 to Multiple IaaS/SaaS providers (AWS, Azure) via the Private links.
Onboard Enterprise customers thru API Sanbox. Provide Customer Admin and User dashboard, Use Apigee API Gateway. Enable PoC of API using Sandbox Provide Node.js, Java SDK, and Postman scripts.
Automate workflows of IaaS/DevOps model for CI/CD Use Terraform/Ansible for IAC

MicroservicesAPI DevelopmentAutomationDevOpsProduct ManagementCloud Computing

800openhome.com

Chief Product Owner, Solution Architect, GTM

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · San Jose, CA

Innovative product to deliver property info via SMS, aimed at 800K Realtors and 4M homes for sale. Work with offshore teams in agile fashion to deliver web portal using LAMP and mobile apps.
Launch marketing campaign to acquire customers via targeted Banner Ads on Linkedin/FaceBook and realtor news letters and Trade Show participation
Enhance product to enable bulk uploads from Brokers and Magazines accounts.
Create business plan and worked with VC/Angels to acquire funding
Define features & product roadmap and deliver product in an Agile environment with offshore teams.

Web DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesPartnershipsProduct ManagementNew Venture Development

Cisco it

SRE, Platform engineering Lead

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · San Jose

Product Engineering/SRE lead:- Service resource (compute/mem/storage/DB/Network/VM, MSG, LB allocations for Dev/QA/Stage/Perf/Prod). Runtime support - Pager, Incident Management, RCA, P1/Debug, Oversee product deployment for Cisco Jabber and Cisco Storage Connect. Coordinate service launches across software development, quality assurance, infrastructure, and product management teams.

Incident ManagementSQLSystem AdministrationIT OperationsProduct Management

Netgear groupo tv

PM, IP STB, Home NAS

Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs · Sunnyvale

Define and work with partners to define and deliver Headless Gateway with Cable Modem/Video/WiFi and DVR. Work with CableLabs for DOCSIS & Cablecard qualification to stream Video to IP devices and apps like Chromecast/Roku/Browsers and Tablets.
Work with 3rd party to get the DVR integrated along with EPG. Integration of OTA and OTT with Cable
Work with ODM for IP STB box with Remote.

Webex

Sol Arch/Delivery, Video, Global Toll-Free Audio Conf

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs · Sunnyvale

Research video conference landscape and provide roadmap/features for desktop video to integrate with WebEx data conferencing. Work on Goto with Sales and Support.
Buy vs. Build analysis and choose to Buy plan 90% less and deliver in a quarter, versus the proposed Build plan costing $5M and a 12 month delay.
Evaluate SessionBorder controllers, MCU for Video conference. Evaluate Billing/Scheduling systems to integrate into in-house OSS/BSS systems.
Analyze new segments to enter and recommended acquisition of "Intranets".

Netapp

Sr. Manager, Network & FS

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

Manage TCP/IP and network protocols team. Evaluate vendors in the SSL, TCP off Load (TOE), Infini-band areas.
Product delivery of Virtual Tape Library, Exchange availability solutions.
Work with global teams and OEM customers