# Strategy & Engineering Functions:Leading GSS FDSE, SHOW, BOTS, GenAI , and Developer Relations engineering functions to drive innovation, productivity, and customer success:- FDSE: Delivering customer-led apps and integrations (splunkbase.com) across Platform, Observability, and Security product portfolio- GenAI/Classical ML: Advancing Data Science, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning Toolkit (Patent pending)- SHOW: A product preview and demo platform for customers/partners showcasing hundreds of Splunk use-cases- BOTS: A gamified, CTF-style learning platform for enterprise software.- Developer Relations: Enhancing the Splunk builder experience by 10X (dev.splunk.com)- Internal Tooling: Improving productivity and efficiency# People Leadership:Leading engineering leaders and their globally distributed teams. Focused on delivering user-centric innovations while scaling team capabilities and fostering professional growth.# Core Mission:FDSE is an agile team creating moonshot projects for Splunk customers and field engineers. Our mission is to accelerate opportunities, resolve challenges, and increase adoption by delivering innovative, customer-focused solutions.# Cross-Functional Collaboration:Partnering with product leaders, engineering teams, Open Source Committee, field CTOs, strategists, and global initiative leaders.# Notable Contributions:- New Product Introductions (NPI): Product development policies, advisory, and GTM enablement.- Influence: Member of the Open Source Committee, Developer/Customer Advisory Board - Innovations: Splunk Ideas, GTM telemetry, and field-driven solutions.- Hackathons: Organizing events to foster innovation in data and AI.- Patents: Splunk Connect for SNMP; Mothership (Federated Splunk Search)- Mentorship: Coaching engineers and peers through job rotations and skill alignment.- Community Impact: Supporting Women in Technology (WIT), neurodiversity initiatives, and Splunk community projects.

Bringing engineering innovation by aiding research and development on free and open source alternatives (FOSS) to the enterprise software. Mentoring and coaching budding engineers.Helped team of builders implement and operate platform tools for big data and analytics. Tech: Spark, Splunk, ELK, CNCF, monolith to microservices, containerization, and many more as a part of driving internal efficiency, cost optimization, and FOSS initiative.Weekly 'Sharing is Caring': A knowledge sharing bootcamp sessions amongst technical leaders and individuals.Bring visibility and actionable insights by partnering with Splunk4good program for non-profit.Help make internet more secure and safer place to be, by bringing more awareness in users and professionals and through other various meansPodcast: Planning and execution of a Cyber Security Internet Radio (Podcast) series in SpringBuilding standards, policy, compliance, CSET, NIST 800-53, and Open Source tools.

HackerEarth, often referred to as the "LeetCode of South Asia," is a SaaS platform connecting over 10M developers with enterprises through Innovation Management (hackathons) and Assessment (competitive programming) products.Role & Contributions:# Innovation Management Product:- Spearheaded the development of a platform enabling hackathons, cybersecurity challenges, and task-based assessments.- Partnered with enterprises to drive innovation and developer engagement through structured challenges.# Leadership & Team Development:- Served as a player-coach, leading a team of five talented developers.Delivered two flagship products:Innovation Management / Sprint: A platform for organizing hackathons and challenges.Recruit: A product for competitive programming, task-based automated talent assessment.# Impact:- Built and nurtured a vibrant developer community by contributing at both technical and leadership levels.- Enabled enterprises to bridge gaps with developer talent through innovative platforms and programming solutions.

Co-founded and built a security and privacy-focused, scalable product hosting company catering to a global audience.# Growth & Customer Success:- Scaled SaaS customer base from zero to over 300+ paying customers.- Achieved 30% YoY growth with 70% recurring customers.- Generated Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) exceeding €100K.- Built unique Layer-7 DDoS protection product that later inspired Cloudflare.# Technical Leadership:- Developed products/services spanning CMS, Site Reliability Engineering, Blue/Green Deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and horizontally scalable SaaS solutions.- Delivered high-performance solutions, including load balancers, Xen/KVM virtualization, colocation, datacenter management, VPN, disaster recovery, and online streaming.# Strategic & Operational Leadership:- Led four cross-functional groups focused on product, engineering, and partner ecosystems.- Directed strategic planning, financial analysis, and operational execution to establish a strong market presence.

Multifaceted technical aspects to keep the engineering teams and end-users of the system content!My responsibilities included shepherding various functions of 40 design, products, and engineering members on day-to-day startups, architectural review, code review, quarterly PI planning, T-shirt sizing, retrospective cadence, and decisions around user-centric design, productivity tooling, and frameworks to make the team successful.I also contributed to Go-to-market release planning, SDKs, API design, secure architecture, and network infrastructure of monolithic applications that scaled across bare-metal servers.Built and maintained scripts to automate routine CI/CD tasks, setting up fault injection and A/B test to run data simulation.Few notable things:— Ran twice-a-year initiatives around reducing technical debt with hackathon-like bug-fixes and improvements of various functions to increase customer NPI score.— Developed landing websites for the end-users.— Routine maintenance of legacy tooling, and network Lab— Held a lecture on ‘Programming the Web’ as a part of nurturing mid-career and early-career talent.— Represented KIT and product-line in industry TechFest.— Spreading awareness about the open source, technical world, and technical mentorship program for software developers to quality signals from all the tech noise.— Worked on a side hustle, which later turned into LeaseDedi and WebCare360.

Built cross-platform desktop applications on productivity (OSX, Windows, Linux): - Hotkey (Shortcut Software)- Devanagari scripts (Gujarati) to English Dictionary focused on Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n).Accountable for the end-to-end design and delivery process, encompassing patch integration, task delegation to contributors, and ensuring the overall stability and integrity of the codebase.Skills Obtained: XP, Batch Scripting (.bat), VMware, KNOPPIX, Pascal, HTML, RegEdit, MSDN (documentation), Desktop Application Development - Visual Basic 5/6 (Windows API / DLL Libraries, WinSock, VB Modules and Macros), bits of reverse engineering, WinDBg (so-so), UPX Packer, PEiD, Hiren’s Boot CD, etc.