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Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Leading Akamai's high growth areas involving cloud & DDoS security, and media acceleration solutions.• Leading product portfolio for security and cloud compute areas to integrate and leverage AI with Akamai's vast edge network• Gathering user requirements and driving key measures of success for the security and compute product areas with tracking metrics, KPIs and OKRs• Driving the end-to-end product strategy and execution for high-growth products in cloud computing and security portfolios• Collaborate extensively with cross functional teams, including architects, engineering, user research, design, sales and marketing• Spearheading multiple customer projects from discovery to development to go-live and beyond• Partnership management and expansion with key Akamai partners

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Leading Cisco's Service Provider Security, platform security, network security, quantum security, app-hosting and infra portfolios and driving elements of the product development lifecycle for both on-prem and cloud based solutions• Creating product roadmaps from conception to launch and beyond• Leading product portfolio for security and expanding AI and ML usage in networking, cloud and platform security areas• Liaison between Enterprise, Data-center and Service-provider portfolios to build a unified strategy for all elements of security• Gathering user requirements and converting them into a successful product vision with tracking KPIs and OKRs• Driving the product strategy and design discussions along with building go-to-market strategy, data management, analytics and security• Working with virtual, regional and cross functional teams and steering them towards a common vision• Lead customer projects from the discovery phase to development and to the go-live• Partnership management and expansion with key Cisco partners• Work closely with developers, architects, scrum masters and leaders in order to deliver the defined scope• Drive and launch both public and internal facing security products, tools, and services

Riverside, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Working with wide array of customers including Enterprises, large financial institutions, E-commerce vendors, healthcare institutes etc. to integrate Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) for enhanced security• Owning entire customer lifecycle from Sales hand-off to execution, implementation, expansion and future roadmap • Part of an amazing transformation and contributed to the growth of the organization from few initial customers to 50+ customers, including many Fortune 500 companies • One of the 3 early members in Professional Services India BU and helping wide array of customers to securely deploy Fortanix Confidential Computing and Data Security Manager (DSM), BYOK, SIEM, LDAP, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) alongside integrating with IAM solutions such as LDAP, VPN, SSO, SAML, AD etc. • Front-ending POCs & solution-design to integrate DSM with multi-vendors (AWS, Azure, Salesforce, GCP) along with on-prem deployment and SaaS model• Serving as customer’s trusted advisor and collaborating with them at all levels and draft secure solutions backed-by Intel SGX• Leading customers through implementation to realization and supporting development teams with clarifications and redefining requirements• Capturing, structuring, and prioritizing functional & nonfunctional requirements along with defining the roadmap for development teams to deliver and prioritize accordingly• Sound experience on Confidential Computing and Intel SGX capabilities

San Jose, California, Us

• Designing and validating end-to-end customer profiles and topologies, solution sanity design and execution. dedicated Customer Focused Soak (CFS) design involving multiple Enterprise network topologies.• Lead for customer soak and end-to-end solution level validation for Aruba services including planning, reviews and execution, automation coverage.• Single handedly managed highest number of customer escalations and provided client-facing assistance since FY19• Managing product escalations including customer interactions, internal sync-ups and RCA analysis• Working with customers, PLM and internal teams to track and prioritize the incoming requests accordingly• Extensive validation for TCP/IP networking protocols in the areas of access, distribution, core and multi-core topologies providing connectivity with OSPF, ARP, VLANs, LACP, VRF, Route policies and more; Secure access such as IPSec, Aruba SD-WAN: Aruba UBT & Dynamic Segmentation; Aruba ClearPass, RADIUS, 802.1X & Mac Auth including client on-boarding, ACLs, Secure roles• Knowledge of Routing protocols like RIP, OSPF, BGP,MPLS• Played a lead role for complete QA life-cycle of multiple features/projects• Collaborated with wide number of people, including C-level Execs, and together co-invented multiple invention disclosures & publications along with defining GTM strategies. • Prepared multi-vendor documents such as Feature Support Matrix (FSM) and reference guides: a) http://h20628.www2.hp.com/km-ext/kmcsdirect/emr_na-c04793912-4.pdf b) https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-a00076278en_us c) https://arubase.club/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CLI_Reference_Guide_for_ArubaOS-CX_ArubaOS-Switch_Comware_and_Cisco_IOS.pdfAchievements:• Handled highest number of customer escalations in FY 19• Awarded "Innovator of the year FY19" for India Geo for being in top 3 for maximum number of patents filed[https://patents.justia.com/inventor/nitin-singla]

San Jose, California, Us

Worked extensively on the CRNs product of the year 2017: Aruba 8400 as well as the nextgen Aruba 8K series based on the new and revolutionized AOS-CX with inbuilt analyticsRole:• System and Solution testing including various networking protocols and cloud based network management using Aruba Central, Airwave etc. • Feature lead for multiple features and performed test plan writing, test plan reviews, execution with tight deadlines and sometimes stretching over weekends• Integration of new feature release by release in Aruba products.• Expertise in solution testing features in the areas of L2, L3 protocols.• Recreating customer issues and managing numerous escalations and providing work around to customer escalation/issues, regression testing.• Providing client-facing assistance to customers for resolution of issues as well as suggesting workarounds.• Highest bug-finder in Aruba products for fiscal year 2017-18• Great responsibility: PI & PD integration across HW, applications, PLM, Pre-sales, Documentation. Supporting GPLM/TME teams.Achievements:• Highest bug-finder in Aruba products for FY 2017-18

San Jose, California, Us

Worked extensively in the development team of Aruba's Network Management Solution, Aruba Central: Role: • Understanding Amazon Web Services (AWS) architecture and deployment of solutions.• Redesigning to make the code scalable and easily maintainable, bug fixes, new REST APIs, writing UTPs.• Involved in integration of new customer requests and features involving tight deadlines and delivering on time.• Worked with PLMs/TMEs to prioritize and implement critical customer feature requests and bug fixes with regular patch updates. • Experience in integrating Enterprise network switches with cloud based deployments on Aruba Central.• Cloud managed Enterprise network infra along with ZTP and automatic template push.• Tech stack: Python, Docker, Kubernetes

• Black-Belt in Martial-Arts (Kung-Fu)• Kung-Fu Trainer with experience of teaching both kids and adults• Gold Medalist at 7th Bangalore Kuo-Shu Championship 2018• Represented INDIA and Bronze Medalist at 2019 Taiwan World Cup Wushu Championship in Oct’19 in Taiwan

Houston, Texas, Us

• Successfully built soak framework to bring 85 different scenarios under one roof.• Completed config migration project automating several features under the same run.• Developed the framework for automating and verifying 50K+ CLI's in the new product releases of HPE.• Awarded the “Best Intern” award 2016 from HPE Networking India for taking good business initiatives.

Chennai, In

• Helped Money-Wizards, in association with Principal PNB Asset Management to conduct the Youth Money Olympiad (YMO) which is the India’s first and the largest ever national level Financial Literacy initiative for college students. • Solely responsible for carrying out the initiative for the very first time in University. • Led a team of 3 students in order to carry out the project successfully. • Received Letter of Recommendation for work done.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Gained valuable knowledge and experience on working with At Mega 16 Development BoardProjects undertaken:• Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) robot: Designed a cell phone controlled robot which has an advantage of robust control, no interference and a large working area• Electronic Voting machine (EVM): An application specific Microcontroller based project that counts and maintains a record of the votes casted• Obstacle avoider robot: This is an intelligent robot which will automatically detect the presence of obstacle in its path and change the direction of motion accordingly• Computer controlled and line follower robot: Implemented a computer vision guided line follower robot capable of performing many basic tasks

• Gained valuable insight and experience into the working of a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)• Programmed the PLC to work in different situations according to the requirements• Performed the internal wiring of PLC and programmed it using the software RS Logix 500

Master Of Business Administration - Mba (Pgppro), Leadership & Strategy

International Immersion Program, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics And Communications Engineering