This podcast shares real life experiences of individuals who have successfully switched careers in the tech industry and excelled in their new role.

Head of product management for Zscaler Private Access (ZPA). ZPA is now the market leader for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and contributes to 20% of Zscaler’s revenue•P&L responsibility for Zscaler’s fastest growing product - ZPA•In 2020, successfully managed unprecedented capacity demands for ZPA, as enterprises across the world embraced WFH, resulting in 5X user growth across the platform•Drive product strategy in new areas - Private Service Edge, API ecosystem and B2B Access •Build a team of Product Managers to further scale ZPA’s growth and introduce new product areas on the platform

Hired to build Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) from ground up and take it to market•Identified and relentlessly pursued target customers for use case validation, product definition and UX, beta testing, deployment, support, creating collaterals and anything that was needed to close the deal!•Defined and built functionality to support IAM, access control and manage private infrastructure•Built, tested and implemented licensing/pricing models for early stage adoption as well as for large scale product uptake •Ability to sell product vision/strategy to cross functional teams across the organization and motivate them to execute on a joint vision•Intimately familiar with zero trust use cases, common enterprise architectures, deployment challenges and zero trust journey

Security:• Built and launched an Internet Security product using ideation and design thinking. Interviewed customers, specified product requirements, developed GMT strategy and defined pricing options. • Responsible for PSIRT response on Smart Services Platform (SSP).PaaS:• Product Owner of Smart Services Platform (SSP), that hosts multiple Internet Services. • Developed a common PaaS API framework that led to a significant improvement in feature velocity.• Successfully managed Software Releases with cross-functional engineering teams located across China, Hungary & India.