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Palo Alto, California, US

Lead team of global SRE in Bangalore India, Sofia Bulgaria and United States of America. We operate and manage over 150 services running in production, on Kubernetes. Responsible for maintaining MTTR, SLA via automation, observability and tooling.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Palo Alto, CA, US

• VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering delivering a highly scalable, secure and innovative service that allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based.
• Team is currently 35 total, including 3 managers and 2 architects.
• Defined and executed strategy for new global VMC SaaS SRE team.
• Expanded and formed team of 25 SRE to support all VMC SaaS Services in production.
• Led cloud cost reduction and implemented cloud spend governance efforts across business unit.
• Scaled VMC monitoring software pipeline to meet VMC growth and compliance.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering delivering a highly scalable, secure and innovative service that allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based.
• Took over existing team in Austin and expanded it and to 15 SRE’s, responsible for over 15 production services.
• Drove operational excellence into the team by focusing on removing false positives and non-actionable alerts across all components.
• Oversaw the selection of several 3rd party solutions for inclusion in the overall monitoring solution.
• Worked with other leaders to generate KPI’s for the team and tracked monthly with leadership.
• Improved on call schedules with a focus on reducing team toil.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• vSphere Integrated Containers provides VMware customers a solution for running docker containers in production on their existing vSphere infrastructure. The product is open source and composed of several components.
• Built and managed a talented team of up to 28 engineers; worked with each team member and held regular 1:1's on goal setting and career ladder expectations. Helped each team member when blocked or underperforming.
• Reviewed enhancements for multiple product and release management initiatives. Drove and implemented the engineering team processes for developing the open source project.
• Play an instrumental role in providing cross-team process definition and tracking for the product integration.
• Partnered with product management and provided details for prioritization.
• Represented all engineering teams as "release boss" on core team, including giving regular updates to senior management.

San Jose, CA, US

• The Cisco Cyber Threat Defense (CTD) solution was a very successful partnership with Lancope. Solution provides Cisco customers with an unprecedented ability to dig deeply into networks and map behaviors to users. This.
• Led 10 member, cross organizational team for the Cisco Cyber Threat Defense (CTD) and Lancope partnership.
• Managed the solution and integration testing for the Cisco validated design.
• Co-owned, with product management, the CTD product roadmap and worked closely with product management and sales teams on implementing major program management solutions.
• Drove alignment across the numerous products that made up the solution.
• Reduced overall testing time to provide faster go-to-market for releases.

San Jose, CA, US

• Hand-picked by VP of Cisco Cloud security, for a 2-year international assignment in Prague, Czech Republic. Served as Local Cisco Executive leading integration of newly acquired startup, Cognitive Security. Managed.
• Drove integration after acquisition of Cognitive Security into Cisco. Led engineering team in Prague, while leading teams in London and San Jose. Doubled size of Prague team in 12 months, from 20 developers and.
• Built cloud-based, threat-detection product based on advanced machine learning and used big data back-ends that process billions of web flows per day.
• Worked closely with local leadership and Cisco international workplace resources to create new, cutting edge, work environment that helped keep startup culture alive with result being recognized as one of Cisco’s best.
• Instrumental in incorporating the team’s development process with Cisco’s product release process resulting in rapid delivery as well as having one of the cleanest ISO audits, ever, for a Cisco acquired company.
• Created and instituted new DevOps process and worked with peers to install across the Cisco Cloud Security organization.

San Jose, CA, US

• Built and led team of up to 60 engineers in San Jose and Austin. Created new and improved exiting advanced threat detection technologies. Represented senior leadership at the cross-organizational team level.
• Worked closely with product management to define new advanced threat detection requirements
• Pushed change from dedicated hardware to cloud-based solutions to facilitate scalability, cut costs, and increase ROI.
• Drove the efforts to switch to agile software development for the larger group including moving to scrum teams that included merged QA and development.

San Jose, CA, US

• Managed Cisco's anti-spam detection, email, and web reputation engineering teams.
• Worked with technical leadership to maintain Cisco's world-class, anti-spam catch rate and low false positive rate.
• Introduced Cisco’s core team concept to team; efforts resulted in streamlined operations, support, QA, and development.
• Drove adoption of new techniques to update anti-spam software on customer boxes.

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Palo Alto, CA, US

• Led openinstaller installation and deployment framework software development. A Java and XML based open source project which integrated over 12 other open source tools.
• Managed several global software development teams.
• Experienced in user interface design. Install architecture includes user interface design that is model, view, controller based. Includes advanced install engine design to allow for future plug ins and connection with.
• Developed multi-year strategy for next generation software life cycle architecture that models the software release strategy.
• Drive alignment and reduce duplication of efforts between all areas of Sun's life cycle management with the goal to reduce costs and maximize available resources.
• Manage worldwide teams located in India, US and China.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Managed team working on software and operating system provisioning products for Sun's N1 software products.Managed the development and release of Solaris install for Solaris 9 and 10 including Solaris Live Upgrade 2.0 and Solaris flash.Managed quality engineering and quality assurance team responsible for ensuring the quality of Solaris.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Designed Solaris Volume Manager upgrade mechanism for Solaris 9 installation. This project was completed while managing the Solaris Install team.Primary development engineer for the CD0 project which lowered costs when releasing new SPARC systems on older OS's.Designed Solaris system identification wizard and a large part of the Solaris installation.