Sabbatical: After 10yrs working at Nutanix and Calm.io (acquired), and leading what became a $100M+ ARR business as the product lead, taking a break to rest, recharge, travel and figure out whats next.Occasional investor in startups, mostly angelist syndicates, or if I personally know founders already.Typical stage: post MVP/1.0, ideally with some paying customers. Verticals: Fintech, health tech/Insurance, Enterprise software/SaaS Examples: Businessonbot, Clinikk, Laminar, Celsius, Slang Labs, Reloy, OneAssure, BosonQ Psi etc

As of Aug 2022, product lead for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), a >$100M ARR business, and Nutanix's second biggest product line.

Product lead for Nutanix Calm: next-generation cloud automation & orchestration for hybrid clouds.

Acquired by Nutanix Inc. Aug 2016.Calm is a DevOps automation platform to simplify the deployment and management of your applications on public and private Cloud infrastructure. Calm offers:* Self-service container/VM/Server management* Workflow-driven automation* Policy-based governance* Cluster-level orchestration

Building Calm.io. Acquired by Nutanix Inc. Aug 2016.

Oct 2011 - Feb 2013Product Manager for the Membase NoSQL data-store (zBase), the scalable and high performance storage infrastructure behind the world's largest private cloud for games. Worked on product roadmaps, features, enhancements, developer documentation and escalations for the product deployed over thousands of servers across EC2 and zCloud.Feb 2013 - Oct 2013Product Manager for Hidden Chronicles, a social game in the hidden object genre. Independently responsible for $XM Quarterly Revenue & DAU metrics as well as feature roadmaps for the game.

Published articles on embedded technologies, mobile virtualization, blu-ray etc

As the first PMM hire in the Aryaka marketing team while the company was in stealth mode, I was involved in multiple activities involved in launching a venture-funded startup into the market with the world's first WAN Optimization as a service product. Work with senior management to define the company’s go-to-market and sales strategy.Interact with customers to understand their pain-points and how the product can help solve them.Work on collateral like technical feature comparisons and whitepapers for customers, and training documents for the sales team.Led product marketing from India with a team of 3 marketing analysts.Responsible for the online presence of the company, from the design of the company website, blog and customer portal to its social media presence on different channels.Multiple responsibilities like PR, SEO, competitive and market analysis, online & offline events, mentoring the sales team etc.

Developer for the 'BMC SQL-Backtrack' a.k.a. 'BMC Recovery Manager for Databases' product line, specifically on the Sybase RDBMS backup/recovery product.Involved in design and coding of new product features over multiple releases of the product.Providing training for technical support as well as directly assisting large enterprise customers with third level developer support.