Purvi Desai

Vice President of Engineering

Mountain View, California, United States

About

Scaling from hands-on development to strategic leadership Leading engineering, product management, setting product roadmap. Network Security and Service Software Development. Taking ideas from inception to core product delivery. Building high scale cloud services, appliances and endpoint security product Leading high performance teams and managing projects Hands on software architecture design and development. Working in diverse settings ranging from successful startup to, large size companies. Working with geographically distributed team. Managing vendors, and leading co-development with partners.

Experience

  • Vice President of Engineering, Zscaler Digital Experience at Zscaler
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Director of Engineering, ASE Traffic at Apple
    May 2024 - Oct 2024 · 6 mos

  • Google ()
    • Director Of Engineering
      Oct 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Engineering leader in Google Cloud responsible for building high performing teams and products in virtual networking infrastructure and product for GCE, GKE, GDC-H, GDC-E and GDC-V. Andromeda infrastructure powering GCE Networks VPC Products GKE Networking Common virtualization networking stack for GDC-H, GDC-E, GDC-V and Anthos

    • Director of Engineering
      Jan 2017 - Oct 2022 · 5 yrs 10 mos

      Engineering leader in Google Cloud, building team and products in Kubernetes networking and service networking area. Kubernetes Networking powering GKE, Anthos and GDC. Common network virtualization layer for Anthos, GDC-V, GDC-E, GDC-H Service Networking (Traffic Director and GSLB)

  • Director of Engineering at Zscaler Inc.
    May 2011 - Nov 2016 · 5 yrs 7 mos

    Responsible for Zscaler App - Endpoint security product development from inception launch and deployment. Responsible for Zscaler Private Access Product (core leadership group) from inception to launch- https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-private-access/remote-access-without-security-risks-vpns Responsible for DLP product development and delivery.

  • Juniper Networks (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Software Manager
      Jan 2011 - May 2011 · 5 mos

      Responsible for SRX forwarding and Unified Threat Management product.

    • Software Manager/Tech Lead
      Jan 2008 - Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Responsible for SRX forwarding and Unified Threat Management product.

    • Software Engineer
      May 2004 - Dec 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Responsible for SRX platform from conception to delivery. Led VoIP ALGs in ScreenOS.