- Own and drive Engineering portfolio at Okta for federal (FedRAMP Moderate, High, DoD IL4/5/6/7) and compliance (SOC I & II, PCI, ISO) initiatives- Lead quarterly/annual planning for federal and compliance initiatives to ensure appropriate resources and funding is available to meet the company targets- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Security, Product, Customer Support, GTM, and Engineering to deliver key initiatives to drive growth in the federal sector- Established brand new processes within Engineering (for incident management, customer support, 24x7 operations, vulnerabilities and POA&M management) to operate and maintain compliance environments- Report risks, dependencies, and progress to executives, including C-Suite, through SteerCo engagement- Partner with GTM, Security and Product to develop to drive new products in the federal sector and expand Okta's presence in DoD and Global Public sector

Customer Engagement / Business Development• Develop and cultivate customer relationships to drive business growth • Define and develop technology strategy, white papers, transformation roadmaps and release plans to meet customer’s business needs• Partner with vendors and technology service providers• Improve time to market by partnering with business stakeholders to understand customer pain points and prioritize work streams Technical Program Management• Lead cross functional development teams, from multiple vendors, on a large Release Train (30+ members) to develop and integrate complex web application with data intensive web services layer and DevOps capabilities• Coordinate with User Experience team to conduct usability research and improve customer experience• Gather requirements and develop delivery roadmaps with clear and manageable milestones• Develop production readiness reviews with risk and impact analysis to successfully deploy capabilities to production environments• Develop and manage risks, issues, and dependencies to drive project schedules and timely delivery• Provide coaching and mentoring to software development teams to continue to mature processes while consistently improving customer satisfaction• Hire and train highest caliber staff needed for successful delivery of technical requirements

• Managed operations of a $10M program, project schedule, risks, issues, dependencies, resource, budget, and P&L to deliver software and services• Led an agile team of software developers and operations engineers (12-15 members) to operate and maintain public facing FedRAMP Moderate and High AWS cloud environments • Built strategic partnerships with vendors and cloud customers to establish cloud migration strategy focusing on reducing cost and improving operational efficiencies• Managed multiple cloud migration projects in parallel to migrate customers from on-premise data centers to AWS • Partnered with security assessment organizations to conduct security assessment of the cloud platforms and applications and meet security compliance• Developed service catalog to satisfy wide range of infrastructure and technology needs for customers• Identified opportunities to automate end-to-end operations of applications in AWS leveraging Docker, Ansible, and Cloud Formation Templates • Instituted strict security assessment processes and guidelines to ensure ongoing FedRAMP compliance of AWS cloud environments

• Led an agile team of software developers from multiple vendors to design and develop a web application solution• Influenced stakeholders and customer to gather requirements and develop a release roadmap to drive priorities • Instituted Agile practices leveraging SAFe framework to organize a Release Train of 40+ cross-functional team of developers, designers, and testers• Applied Agile principles to drive intra-organizational efficiencies in the project management, software development and product delivery leveraging DevOps and SAFe• Employed customer driven approach to bring user feedback at the fore front of software development processes to improve customer experience and drive growth

• Oversaw design and development of mobile and web applications focused on driving efficiencies and improvements in the customer's business processes• Gathered customer requirements to develop and manage multiple program backlogs using Agile SCRUM• Managed customer relationships to increase customer satisfaction through successful and timely delivery

• Customer relationship manager for multiple customers to drive organic growth • Led team of engineers to design, develop and deploy network traffic analysis tools for mission critical customer applications• Led the efforts to expand customer base, which are still active, through business development. Identified opportunities to improve product offerings through research and development• Managed finances, resources, and requirements for multiple customers

Supported design and development of state of the art real-time data processing solution. Early adopter of Scrum methodology to rapidly develop and deploy releases. Led the efforts to improve deployment operations through automationTechnologies: C++, Java, Python, Pearl, Shell, TCP/IP, Network Protocols, IP Security, Splunk, Snort, wireshark

Supported as an embedded software developer to develop drivers for hardware modules for Presidential Helicopter Program (VH71)Technologies: C/C++, Assembly

Graduated from a highly acclaimed Image Processing and Leadership Development program. Designed and developed a real-time image processing solution to playback and process High Definition movies in real-time as part of an R&D effort. Designed and developed highly efficient image processing modules through parallel processing and efficient memory management Technologies: C/C++, OpenGL, NVIDIA GPU Programming