I am heading the software and data engineering infrastructure team at Alkahest where we work on early detection of diseases from biomarkers in blood plasma.

Drove digital transformation and created technology product roadmaps for marquee companies in Software, Telecommunications, Energy, Finance, and Transportation. Worked alongside executives to devise public and private cloud solutions, data analytics capabilities, data governance initiatives, and next-gen enterprise products that utilize AI, Machine Learning (ML), AR/VR, and IoT technologies. Regularly delivered executive presentations for CIOs, SVPs, and private equity partners.PRODUCT STRATEGY FOR CLIENTS• Advanced product strategy for virtualization firm by driving market research in the Kubernetes space, in partnership with Kubernetes luminaries and experts in product R&D, Strategy, and Operations.• Measured Linux product against a changing market and introduced new multi-cloud infrastructure plan, propelling company acquisition and management transition.• Designed secure, private cloud infrastructure utilizing Microsoft Azure and Open Stack for satellite imaging product line and deployed public cloud solution (GCP) for land-mapping drones.• Evaluated acquisition targets for several PE firms to assess technology products and infrastructure, including CMSs, QA engineering solutions, and AI capabilities. Defined current and potential product-market fit.DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES• Devised strategy for transition to cloud-native infrastructure. Influenced C-suite executives to win buy-in, described change management protocol, and managed vendor selection.• Created analytics solution combining IoT-driven fleet telematics data and financial reporting. Replaced Cassandra with Snowflake DW and addressed failover/recovery gaps, resulting in improved system reliability at lower cost.

Acted as HANA subject matter expert to drive adoption by startups, ISVs, systems integrators, and SAP partners.Served as technical lead for cross-functional development of HANA applications, overseeing development and implementation. Supervised global team of Solutions Architects developing customized products for individual markets by vertical and geography.Partnered with analytics and data science vendors allowing developers access into C++ kernel to leverage data stored in ERPs.Orchestrated the release of new feature sets and APIs aimed at the developer community to continually boost product adoption and usage within and across enterprise customers.Evaluated transition from HANA Cloud Platform from Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes.Founded “SAP Mentors” program composed of 100 elite engineers with the goal of advancing SAP platform strategy. Established code-sharing hub within SAP Developer Network, winning buy-in from executive board to share IP with SAP’s 80,000 customers.

Reduced spending by leading the case for open source technology, reversing executive board’s previous stance and positioning SAP as primary thought leader in open source.Assembled international team of architects who doubled as evangelists and setting new standards for platform technology in the Banking, Insurance, Chemical Engineering, and Web Services foundation.Sat on industry-wide Java SE/EE Executive Committee of the Java Community Process and served as President and Chairperson of Web Services Interoperability Organization.Established the Eclipse Foundation, one of the most prominent open-source organizations in the industry, in partnership with Eclipse creator IBM.

Led 60 person engineering team at a SAP spin-off dedicated to delivering the Java-based technology framework and applications for B2B Marketplaces. SAPmarkets provided the technology framework for a high-throughput XML document exchange between business partners, catalogs, user management and service directories.

Eclipse is an open source community, focused on building an open development platform for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that cultivates both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. I represented SAP first on the board of the IBM-affiliated industry consortium and later was instrumental in forming the independent Eclipse Foundation.

Model N provides a platform for B2B business networks to build cloud-based applications for revenue management including support for pricing and quoting, contract development and management, trade settlements and channel incentives. Joined the company in the early stages and grew the initial small engineering team to 40 people. Responsible for platform engineering, application development, user interface design and QA. Delivered several simultaneous releases to multiple customers on a single Java-based platform. Collaborated with hosting operations, product management, product marketing and strategic customers on release and feature planning.