May 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Head of Engineering for Hybrid Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) Org at IDC, delivering a managed k8s service at hyperscale, driving a unified, consistent workload platform architecture vision for both containerized and virtualized hybrid workloads .
• Bootstrapped a new Azure Security Dev Organization in India, responsible for building Azure Security Services for Data Protection and Host security for Azure Fleet. Seeded the culture, mission, and execution strategy of the group.
• Built & operationalized "Ring-1" Azure Encryption @ Rest service with a NG Encryption Protocol scaling across 3M Nodes & 4 9's availability.
• Built a new zonal Azure Storage Key Rotation service managing DSAS token rotations across 20M+ VMs for various disks/blobs in Azure.
• Driving modernization of Azure control plane services with a new suite of Node management services with an event driven architecture scaling to 10x scale with high reliability, performance and security  replacing legacy cloud services.
• Active contributions as a Microsoft career mentor, University hiring, Giving champion, and in other Employee Resource Groups.

Oct 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead Test developer for Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager.
• Designed and developed a plugin-architecture based 'system resource anomaly detection watchdog system' in Python for ClearPass Policy manager.
• Architected and developed a Java based UI test automation framework involving, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JMockit, Maven etc. with a custom keyword-driven framework layer on top.
• Developed an automated nightly build system in Python that built, deployed and acceptance tested the CPPM system in integration with a Hudson CI server.
• Setup and co-owned a Jenkins+SVN build infrastructure.
• Created a UI load test system using Jmeter.

Sep 2007 – May 2022 · 14 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Senior Software Development Manager, Security Business Group, Bengaluru, India since Nov'2020.
• San Jose,CA until Oct'2020
• Manage a group of 75+ Security software engineers(9+ Scrums). Own device software components for control/datapath: VPN/Routing/IPv6/Cloud Native Firewall/SDWAN/NAT/Network Services/Application Inspection/Logging
• Lead strategy for growth, hiring, culture, communication, people development, org structure, metrics, roadmap prioritization, and eliminate roadblocks for execution. Ramped up VPN center of excellence with 20 hires in FY21.
• Delivered key $MM initiatives in VRF, IPv6, VPN areas to win major deals. Engineering POC for key customers. Champion University hiring. Mentor in Women in cybersecurity, Coach in Innovation leadership programs.
• Senior Product Manager, Cisco Firepower Threat Defense NGFW
• Managed product strategy and roadmap for $1B+ services portfolio to drive adoption and growth of NGFW.
• Built and brought to market "Secure Remote Worker" services portfolio to capture $MM revenue.
• Senior Engineering Manager, Cisco DNA Center, Enterprise Networking(ENG)
• Managed 25+ engineers to bring consumer-grade SDN in DNA center, an internal startup.
• Owned Network automation stack: Provisioning framework, integration with ISE, SDWAN & UI.
• Ramped up from 0 to 5000 deployments, Hired 30+ engineers in FY18, lead releases as Release Captain.
• Evangelized in sales summits, conferences. 1 patent issued. 2 Pending with USPTO.
• Technical Leader, WAN SDN Controller, Cloud & Virtualization group.
• Shipped software releases for MPLS-TE Orchestration(PCEP, SR). Designed/developed Python test code. ASA software releases for SP inspection(GTP), SP Security gateway, and clustering.
• Software Engineer, IOS IPsec VPN, CS-MARS, Security Technology Group
• Shipped IOS software for RFC 430x-IKEv2/IPsec, DMVPN, PKI on Services Routers as a dev-test engineer. CS-MARS network device integration module with Cisco PIX/ASA, Snort IPS, Symantec EP.

Jun 2005 – Sep 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Part of 'Microsoft Services Academy for Collegiate Hires'.
• Part of the break-fix engineering team for Microsoft ISA server which is an edge firewall and application gateway.
• Performed root-cause analysis and break-fixing of critical, high visibility enterprise network security problems involving Microsoft ISA server.
• Advised customers and field teams on network security infrastructure design and security policy development.