In this role I led a global division of 60+, including teams for: CDP One software development (SaaS Ops automation), SaaS Ops team, Global SRE team for the three Cloudera Control Planes (US, EU, EMEA), driving PaaS and SaaS environment deployments. Leader of CDP One SaaS development and SaaS Ops team of over 30 engineers with customer deployments in AWS and Azure in all timezones. Over 300 nodes under management in customer single-tenant deployments, supporting millions of analytic workload jobs per month.SaaS Ops control plane delivers provisioning, multi-tenant SecOps security perimeter, including monitoring and alerting, SIEM, and deployment lifecycle events, including expansions, os and analytic engine upgrades.Customer SaaS deployments upgraded every 90 days via orchestration automation, micro-services (UX and SecOps) upgraded monthly.Leader of CDP Control Plane SRE organization (30+ engineers) supporting PaaS and SaaS deployments, running multiple Kubernetes (k8s) deployments with hundreds of containerized micro-services. Deployed in AWS in three regions.Compliance certifications and initiatives include FedRamp, SOC II and ISO 27001.

Cloudera acquired Cazena in June 2021 for Cazena's CDP SaaS offering, and renamed the services as CDP One.Cazena delivers Instant Cloud Data Lakes for data science, big data analytics and data warehousing in both AWS and Azure. Lead a global team of 30+, comprising SWE, SRE and customer success teams to deliver fully-managed SaaS Big Data Lakes in both AWS and Azure across 7 geographical regions.• Scaled DevOps, SecOps and Hadoop ecosystem expertise across each customer’s single-tenant Cloudera-based data lake. • Automated provisioning, system upgrades and ongoing monitoring, alerting and escalation procedures, using OpsGenie, Sensu and Zendesk.• Organized an Agile organization (Scrum, Kanban) delivering 6 major releases per year, meeting a tight OS security exposure SLA.• Fully secure SOC 2 cloud deployments featuring auditing, filtering, anomaly detection along with periodic penetration testing.• Delivered 24x7 Helpdesk and global support with teams in US and India.• Customers executed over 1 million monthly big data jobs per month with target system availability SLA of 99.95%. • Optimized cloud infrastructure spend, resulting in over 30% reduction in monthly cost.AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Software Executive leading VoltDB software engineering, customer support, information services, product and technology roadmap, chief product owner, for VoltDB.VoltDB is an in-memory clustered/shared-nothing horizontally scalable database capable of executing millions of multi-statement SQL transactions per second on bare metal or in the cloud. Used widely in verticals such as telecom, internet of things (electric smart grids, for example), digital ad tech, online gaming, sensor applications (casino chip tracking, road race tracking) and a variety of real-time analytics/fast data pipeline applications integrated with the Hadoop ecosystem.In this role, I continue to scale the development organization, have multiple high-performance Scrum teams, while delivering monthly releases of VoltDB, the world's fastest in-memory operational RDBMS. Customer count and revenue growing at a triple-digit growth rate.Chief Product Owner/Product Manager, owning roadmap, strategy, IP strategy, with multiple patent applications filed. Analyst and press interactions for major product releases.Grew engineering organization four-fold with exceptionally low attrition, established annual summer Intern program as well as established remote (Nepal) development team capabilities for UI.Hands-on experience/development, as time permits, includes Java, GWT, jQuery, JavaScript, UI and systems software coding.Technologies/Tools: Github, CI (Jenkins), JIRA/Greenhopper, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, Storm, AWS, jQuery, JSCH, Linux, MacOS, etc.

Bizyhood is a SaaS Customer Engagement and Marketing platform that enables smallbusiness to retain and attract customers, at a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising.

Enabling brand advertising during commerce transactions, to achieve immediate and tangible wins for brand advertisers, online retailers, celebrities, fans, and worthy causes.Recently Dympol teamed up with multi-platinum rock act Switchfoot; Red Light Management; and surf, skate, and music lifestyle apparel brand Hurley, using Dympol's Charitable Checkout offering on the web and on Facebook, to generate engagement and goodwill while raising money for StandUp For Kids, a volunteer outreach organization dedicated to helping at-risk youth

Responsible for 3 product lines, including OpenEdge Database, ObjectStore, Orbix, consisting of over $300M in revenue with thousands of partners and direct customers. multi-tier management layer in 100+ person global organization (US, India, Ireland).Championing Waterfall to Agile transformation of Product group.

Affinity-network commerce offering.

Sr. Director, Engineering for the EasyAsk division of Progress Software. EasyAsk was acquired by Progress Software in May of 2005.Lead engineering team on two new product line initiatives, the Ajax-based Commerce Studio, and BI Studio. Hands-on role managing the product road map, architecture, implementation and product roll-out. • Grew development team post-acquisition, delivering over 7 versions of EasyAsk on schedule.• Architected Web 2.0 strategy for e-Commerce and Business Intelligence offerings, including Flash-based reports and Ajax-enabled components for OEM customers.• Defined and lead effort for V11 BI Studio, an Ajax-based, Natural Language Query and reporting Business Intelligence Studio. • Designed and lead effort for V10.0 EasyAsk Commerce Studio, an Ajax-based “one-stop” e-Commerce merchandising and navigation offering targeting non-technical users.• Technical evaluator for Progress Acquisition committee, investigating Ajax-based technologies and high-performance databases.• Whitepaper: Pervasive Business Intelligence – Usability is Key for Casual Users• DM Review article, 10/08: Make BI Pervasive by Making BI Easy• Patent application: “Process for Dynamically Searching and Browsing Product Catalogs with Reduced User Gestures”• Technologies: Ajax, EXT, JavaScript, WordNet, Teragram, JSP, custom TagLib, XML, XSLT, Jetty, J2EE, Lucene, Web Services, Flash, BIRT, SalesForce.com

Responsible for building and delivering EasyAsk's precision search and dynamic navigation solutions. This was a hands-on role covering three product lines, e-commerce search and merchandising, business intelligence natural language query, and EasyAsk's self search (document search) offerings.Hands on role involving architecture, project leading, implementation, technology evaluation, engineering management, road map definition, analyst/magic quadrant, product management, etc.• Grew high-performance team, with very low attrition, delivering over 12 versions of EasyAsk on schedule, using Agile methodologies.• Managed small off-shore development team.• Helped grow customer base to 50 enterprise customers over three-year period.• Key contributor to landing accounts, Lands' End, Gap, E-LOAN, Bass-Pro, Coach, Ceridian (SaaS)• Defined Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) strategy.• Led effort to migrate Windows-only Search solution to three Enterprise-ready, multi-platform products in the Business Intelligence, Self-Service and e-Commerce markets.• Implemented Flash-based Merchandising tool using Laszlo Presentation Server.• Lead I18N effort for French, Dutch, Italian, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Double-byte ready.• Defined commerce package integration strategy, including J2EE, XML, XSLT, HTTP/REST.• Product Management activities included: o Project Release Plans, Roadmaps, Product Training, Marketing Data Sheetso Analyst Meetings, Gartner Magic Quadrant submissions (visionary quadrant)o Met with and evaluated technology of potential acquisition targets

Responsible for managing 20 engineers developing aspects of the Mercator Web Integratation product set.

Responsible for managing 20 engineers developing one of the industries first web Application Servers.• Architected and implemented Enterprise JavaBean V1.0 support in Application Server.• Lead the design and implementation of high availability Application Management Server.• Implemented XML pipeline to Business Objects (Novera DB Blend).• Key contributor to $1M enterprise deals with The Home Depot, Arch and Compaq.• Architected, designed and implemented industries first Java/CORBA-based Application Servers.

Technical lead of 10 engineers, for CORBA-based ESSM, a client/server desktop tool based on the Tivoli Management Environment that provides system administrators with the ability to perform distributed system management functions on Sybase SQL Servers in a heterogeneous network

Distributed Object (CORBA) Specialist

Project/Team Leader for DECforms product set, providing 30 million dollar/year in revenue, over 10,000 licenses sold.