Head of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, bring more than 25 years of enterprise software experience to grow and lead world-class teams translating high-level vision into products that keep customers safe & compliant Joined Palo Alto Networks in 2019 and led the SaaS Security product portfolio, expanding role from “turnaround one product” to creating and releasing almost 1 new product every year (Enterprise DLP, Inline CASB, Posture Management, NG CASB, Email/DLP). Increased revenues 5X To $1XX(M). Grew the team from 27 engineers in 1 location to ~130 team members across 3 locations. Led the redesign of the initial product to an event driven architecture paradigm, achieving 10-100x scale. Achieved significant Velocity/Quality improvements - Moved from Quarterly release cycles to multiple–deployments per day. Prior to joining PAN, I spent two years at CA Technologies as VP Engineering heading technology strategy and execution for industry leading platform CA APIM SaaS, APIM Portal, Mobile, & Live API Creator. Prior to that, spent over 20 years at various enterprise software companies in leadership roles to deliver many platforms, including SmartConnect, eNets, SDG(ADP), critical components of the webMethods Integration Platform (Middleware, Integration, ESB, SOA, B2B). Highly skilled at building teams from scratch, re-organizing and transforming organizations & processes. Releasing new products, reductions in escalations, regressions, #post release-defects, cost/incident, and Release cycle times. Hold a Technology Strategy (2-year CTO program) from Haas School of Business (UCB), Masters from SJSU, Bachelors (Engineering) from BMSCE.
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