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San Jose, Ca, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

Engineering leader driving development, operations, user experience, and technical publications for Styra's SaaS product delivering authorization of infrastructure and applications within the cloud-native stack. Focused on growing the team in a 100% remote environment - driving execution, scale, quality, and building the best cloud-native authorization solution on the market.- Grew engineering team over 300%- Built out leadership team and management structure- Developed and rolled out Engineering process.- Introduced parallel execution teams- Drove improvements within PLG, Applications, and Infrastructure product areas

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Engineering leader within Illumio driving core policy and endpoint vertical teams. Responsible for all engineering deliverables for Illumio’s Core Policy Application, Illumio’s Virtual Enforcement Node, Illuimio’s Container Ecosystem Integration, Illumio’s Network Enforcement Node, and Illumio Edge. - Successfully delivered Illumio Edge - Illumio's Zero Trust Endpoint Security Solution- Successfully delivered Illumio ASP integration with Container Ecosystems.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Lead and grow the teams responsible for the core Policy application within the Policy Compute Engine, as well as Virtual Enforcement Node agent running on customer data centers and public cloud. My focus is on growing and scaling engineering teams as Illumio grows as a company and building out the product to meet the needs of a rapidly growing customer base. I am working to build end to end features within the Illumio Adaptive Security platform for all types of customer environments - from Linux servers running on bare metal, to data center networking equipment, to cloud infrastructure, to container platforms running in a private data center or public cloud.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Drove creation of Mobility, Cloud, Endpoint, and Network Access Control products within Secure Access solutions provider. Planned and guided an international engineering team comprised of Directors, Managers, Developers, QA Engineers, and DevOps Engineers located in San Jose, Westford, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.> Served as Site Lead for the Boston area office. Secured and built out the company’s new office space as part of Pulse Secure carve out. > Track record of continuous growth in responsibility by taking ownership of additional products and functional areas.> Track record of using metrics to track team performance and demonstrating consistent improvement in metrics over time.> Responsible for 85+ Engineers, Managers, and Directors worldwide with budget responsibility of $9M.> Increased cadence of Mobility and Endpoint product releases by moving to a two-month release cycle for all platforms. Releases included both store-based apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Chrome OS, and traditional desktop applications for Windows Desktop and OSX.> Delivered 1st and subsequent releases of Pulse Secure's converged cloud platform "Pulse One" providing both a mobile device management solution and Pulse Secure appliance visibility/management in a single SaaS offering.> Installed new leadership on the Pulse One and Workspace product engineering teams and improved team depth by hiring additional high-caliber professionals. > Transitioned ownership of the Pulse Secure network access control suite of AAA products to a senior leader; successfully mentored that individual to take on that ownership.> Responsible for sustaining activities for Mobility, Cloud, Endpoint, and Network Access Control. Track record of personally meeting with customers to address their concerns and ensure product success.> Transitioned teams from waterfall to Agile/Scrum.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Planned and directed the efforts of software development and quality assurance teams in the US and India for high-performance network solutions provider.> Responsible for 30+ Engineers Worldwide.> Transitioned the Pulse Client and Network Access control product teams from Waterfall to an Agile Software Development methodology.> Built India-based network access control team into one of the most productive teams in the Pulse business. Markedly improved engineering team effectiveness while enhancing product quality.> Planned and directed the project that delivered “Pulse,” a cross-platform agent designed to interoperate with Juniper’s Remote Access, Network Access Control, WAN Acceleration, and Firewall devices. Successfully delivered the first version of the Pulse client in Q2 2010 and the second major release in Q1 2011.> Hired two new managers to take on leadership roles on the Westford based Endpoint team. Mentored the two managers to be recognized as consistent high performers and leaders of the team.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Planned and guided the efforts of eight software engineers driving development of the end point security product. Provided a clear vision of the products impact and team capabilities, motivating the team to stretch their abilities and deliver the solution.> Responsibly managed software projects for Juniper Networks UAC Network Access Control product line.> Successfully merged the US and India Endpoint Integrity team into one team. Mentored an India-based Individual Contributor to become Manager of the India team.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Spearheaded integration of Funk Software technology into Juniper Networks products and solutions.> Provided hands-on, inspirational leadership to the team that integrated Funk Software’s Steel Belted Radius Server, Endpoint Assurance Server, and Odyssey Access Client products into Juniper Networks UAC Network Access Control solution.

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Played a pivotal role in a Software Engineering Team for network access security solutions firm. Developed Funk's industry leading AAA solutions - Steel Belted Radius and Odyssey Access Client. Provided technical leadership in the design and implementation of Funk Software's open standards based Endpoint Integrity solution.> Served as Lead Engineer on the initial development of Funk Software’s open standards based Endpoint Integrity solution. Drove integration of Endpoint Integrity with Funk’s Steel Belted Radius AAA Server and Odyssey Access Client provided one of the first full Network Access Control solutions.

Austin, Tx, Us

Participated in a variety of system software engineering related projects. Developed functionality within Trilogy’s AdmitOne IPSec toolkit; integrated the technology into third-party products. Developed functionality for Funk Software’s Steel Belted Radius product.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.)

Studies In Computer Science