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• Product and Engineering Leader having 18 years of experience in developing highly distributed, scalable and secure software systems. • Passionate about creating products that solve real-world problems and deliver value to customers. • Transforming opportunities into great products - responsible for the full lifecycle : concept, build, future roadmap, sales and presales support, pricing, sales enablement and training. • Managing and mentoring Product Management, Software Development, QA and sales engineering teams globally; experience with improving organization effectiveness by OKR planning and execution. • Hands on experience with C, Python and SQL. • Hands on experience with cloud technologies like AWS EC2 (VPC), S3 and environments like Kubernetes(K8S), Subversion, Git, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, JIRA. • Hands on experience with Edge Computing, Traffic Engineering, IPsec VPN. • Proficient with Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) for hybrid/multi-cloud: AWS direct connect, AWS PrivateLink, Google Cloud Platform, GCP Private Service Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Private Link, IBM cloud Direct Link, OCI Fastconnect. • Proficient with RESTful web services/APIs, authentication (SAML) with multiple identity providers (Auth0, Okta, Google, Azure), streaming telemetry, microservices, message queuing and automation. • MS in Computer Science from University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) focusing on Distributed Systems, Database and Machine Learning. • Patents in distributed systems, zero touch provisioning and security. • Computer Science Teaching Excellence Award for the Graduate Teaching Assistant of the year 2007-08, UMCP. • Strong programming, analytical and communication skills. • An ultra-marathoner: - Finisher of a 100KM (62.1 miles), 50M, two 50 KM, 9 full marathons and many half-marathons. - Have raised more than 19,000 USD for the education of underprivileged children over 9 years with long distance running.
MongoDB Atlas (2Bn+ ARR) is a fully-managed cloud database with multicloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and multi-region (117+ regions) data distribution capability. With automated (UI/API/IaC) infrastructure provisioning, database setup, maintenance, and version upgrades it handles all the complexity of deploying, managing, and healing. • Leading the Atlas Networking/Security features portfolio of $1.5Bn+ ARR, focusing on Compute, Private Networking, Security and Multi-Cloud connectivity to enhance data security, accessibility and high availability. • Collaborating with hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure), influencing their roadmap and partnering with top 500 Atlas enterprise customers in Financial Services, Automotive, Healthcare, and Public Sector to drive product success. • Founding SRE PM: Transformed the SRE organization by establishing a product-centric, developer-aligned model. Owned the product strategy and roadmap for SRE, driving initiatives that directly move database fleet availability, utilization, and time-to-recover across multi-region data distributions. • Led the strategy and implementation of private networking platform initiatives, achieving $XX million in annual cost savings. • Drove XX% improvements in high availability by enhancing security related third-party cloud services for MongoDB Atlas.
Promoted in two months to lead the KX platform for AI and Real-time Analytics cloud products.
Heading the cloud and edge portfolios at PacketFabric providing automated, secure, fast and on-demand Network-as-a-Service (NaaS). Responsible for 1. PacketFabric Cloud Router : Distributed hybrid and multicloud layer-3 connectivity (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, IBM). 2. Quick Connect : AWS Direct Connect-style infrastructure access for anyone and everyone. 3. Quick Internet : fully automated Internet connectivity. 4. Cloud Services 5. Edge Services/Transit • As the product leader responsible for PacketFabric's flagship Cloud Router, I hold P&L accountability and oversaw a 300% revenue increase YOY, growing customers by more than 60% every quarter. • PacketFabric Cloud Router has won multiple awards over the years. • Successfully launched PacketFabric Quick Internet in August 2023.
• Successfully launched PacketFabric Quick Connect in May 2023. Also worked on: • Core platform development to enhance observability and monitoring: streaming telemetry, microservices, message queuing.
In addition to everything PacketFabric Cloud Router, worked on: • IPsec VPN • Security and Authentication (SSO and SAML)
IP Fabric (2018-2020): • Senior technical leader for the next generation data center solution. • Responsible for the design and the development along with automation of hybrid/multi-cloud deployment scenarios. • Participated in and successfully resolved 100+ customer escalations. • In top 1% of recognition awards across various groups and projects every year. • In addition to the above, supported the projects below 20% of the time: Junos Fusion Enterprise and Data-Center (2015-2018): • Technical and Product leader for control plane daemons and infrastructure for a product having TAM of 10 Billion+ USD. • Worked on the design and development for FCoE Initialization protocol (FIP) snooping, a security mechanism to prevent unauthorized access and data transmission, having distributed state machine (patent pending). • Zero touch provisioning of networking attributes (patent issued). • Access security between controlling devices and remote line-card (patent pending). Qfabric (2010-2014): • Involved in the design and development of Layer 3 multicast on QFabric (patent issued). • Designed and implemented a solution to support PIM-Sparse Mode on the distributed architecture of QFabric. • Worked on features and enhancements to provide a highly scalable, highly available distributed system with faster convergence which generated 10M USD revenue yoy - this was a precursor to EVPN managed fabric solutions. • A member of the core team directly responsible for biggest switching portfolio deal (100M USD) for Juniper.
SAVBU, Switch Software Team (Nuova Systems) Project: Nexus 5000 switches and Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders with Virtual Port-channel (vPC) support. • Participated in the development of software for next generation data center switch product family, with emphasis in the layer 2 protocols area using Cisco-NXOS. • Participated in Ethernet port-client development for Fabric Extender, where the Fabric Extender (Nexus 2000) is connected to two supervisors (Nexus 5000) in Active-Active mode.