Hari Krishnan Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Product Management leader for Nuage SASE/SD-WAN Security, SDN/Cloud Security, and Analytics Portfolio.Developed vision and roadmap for Nuage SD-Security portfolio for both SDN and SD-WAN markets that contributed to revenue growth and adoption of Nuage SDN and SD-WAN in CSPs, Telcos and Enterprise customers.• Defined and delivered SD-WAN embedded security capabilities including L4-L7 firewall, web/URL filtering, IDS/IPS, and Network Security Analytics. Initiated and forged OEM relationships with key security partners to augment in-house security capabilities.• Defined and delivered SDN/cloud network security and analytics capabilities for micro-segmentation / zero-trust segmentation use case including new Distributed Firewall, Flow visibility, network security analytics, and automated policy generation capabilities. Lead efforts with 3rd party auditors to validate Distributed firewall for PCI compliance segmentation requirements.• Define and delivered network security analytics offering (VSS) for both SDN and SD-WAN based on time-series network flow data with rich meta-data (tags, threat intelligence) for contextual flow visibility, policy generation, network security monitoring, and compliance use cases. Defined Network monitoring use cases for AIOps based on network flow data and Elasticsearch ML.• Presented Nuage SDN and SD-WAN Security Solutions to Customers, Analysts, and at Conferences.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead Product Management and Product Marketing for Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Security Solution• Defined security roadmap and product requirements for Cisco’s ACI based on market and competitive analysis, feedback from customers and field. Drove requirements for micro-segmentation.• Built a team to deliver a new simplified UI for ACI policy definition based on end-user feedback.• Developed messaging and collateral for Cisco ACI Security solution that helped differentiate Cisco's SDN security over competitors. Launched Cisco ACI security solution with FirePOWER NGIPS at Interop 2015.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Defined product strategy for Nominum’s market-leading DNS engines and DNS based security that serves over 150 million broadband subscribers worldwide in large service provider networks.• Lead the definition of several industry first security capabilities leveraging DNS based policy for mitigating DNS based DDoS attacks that was successfully deployed in large ISP networks.• Defined product strategy, roadmap, and PRD for 1.0 version of new applications that leveraged DNS-based analytics for value-added ISP services. Developed business cases and pricing for new products.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Managed product strategy and roadmap for Data Protection APIs and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)• Successfully defined and transitioned the data protection eco-system from legacy framework to the new API model and drove partner adoption with majority of leading backup products within a year.• Defined roadmap and requirements for SRM to automate end-user workflows based on customer feedback

Seattle, Washington, Us

Primary product manager for F5’s FirePass SSL VPN product line and Web Application Firewall 1.0• Successfully defined product roadmap, packaging and pricing for SSL VPN product line that resulted in market share growth from 0% to over 12% (2nd place) and annual revenues from zero to $30M+ over 4 years.• Defined the 1.0 PRD for Web Application Firewall and drove the technology acquisition of Magnifire.

Led the product team that developed a carrier-grade multi-vendor IP Service Provisioning Platform for ISP market. Recruited and managed a 12-member high-performing product development team.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Mba

Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology, Electrical & Electronics Engineering