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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

WHAT WE DO: We help companies Govern, Manage & Renew their SaaS Apps. Backed by YC, F7 Ventures, RingCentral ventures and other marquee investors.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

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Austin, Texas, Us

HIGHLIGHTS★ IPv6 • Product Manager lead for launching IPv6 on OCI which unblocked multi-million dollar contracts from DoD & Federal government customers.• When the DoD requirements for IPv6 were ambiguous, performed extensive competitive analysis to drive minimum IPv6 feature set and strongly advocated for a usable IPv6 product.• Collaborated with outbound PM and sales team to perform several customer lead generation exercises for IPv6.★ Improving Network Usability / UX• After analyzing customer support ticket patterns, I took up the PM lead role for improving user experience for Virtual Cloud Network and gateways.• Partnered with design, development and user research teams to promote usability efforts at OCI. • Created the first usability roadmap to focus efforts on improving UX for VCN and gateways.• Conceptualized, evangelized & generated support from different teams to invest in and launched the "Networking Quickstart" wizard• Wizard reduced customer steps from 35+ to 5, and from launching 10+ windows to just 1.• It also increased the adoption of NAT gateway and Service Gateway, and increased the traffic towards Oracle Services which were the goals of the project• Identified & prioritized impactful quick fixes to improve networking UX. ★ DoD (Dept of Defense) Connectivity• As the PM lead for providing connectivity from DoD network to OCI Cloud, ensured networkingfeature requirements were met across OCI.• Brought in the right stakeholders to provide clarity to the ambiguous requirements from DoD's CCPG and SRG docs.• Propagated the DoD requirements to VCN, Connectivity, DNS, LBaaS and DBaaS PM & engineering teams.★ General★ VCN, IP & Gateways• Involved with several initiatives by triaging & prioritizing customer pain points, performing customer interviews, gathering feedback, creating succinct documentation to drive decisions, drive consensus and coordinating as and when needed to ensure the success of the project.

San Francisco, California, Us

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San Francisco, California, Us

★ 2015-2016: Conceptualized and pitched for Riverbed to enter the Mobile Service Provider Optimization space by enhancing Riverbed’s WAN Optimization product - SteelHead.★ Won SharkTank at Riverbed among 26 other pitches.★ Demoed our project internally and at Mobile World Congress 2016, Barcelona.★ Worked with a team of 3 talented engineers and built a PoC to showcase our solution to Service Provider customers.★ Proposal captured current market trends, competition, risks, opportunities, 3 GTM strategies and pricing model based on a mix of Willingness to Pay (WTP) and Cost plus pricing.★ Actively engaged the Riverbed Service Provider Sales teams across the globe to find interested ISP customers, while still being an engineer.★ Excellent executive presentation and communication skills helped drive the project and generate interest across the board in Engineering, Product Management, Sales, CTO Office, GM, CXOs and Marketing teams.Innovation/Initiative:• Took initiative to perform SD-WAN competitive analysis and provided the document to Product Marketing team. Analysis was performed with 10+ SD-WAN competitor's technical features, funding, partnerships, SWOT analysis etc being displayed in a single sheet for ease of comparison. • Developed a generic web UI tool using HTML and PHP to search for free/used resources in labs across the Riverbed labs, greatly reducing the time taken and complexity in searching for machines by traditional way at Riverbed

San Francisco, California, Us

• Being mentored by the VP of Products, worked on improving Riverbed's security infrastructure.• Security project was only specific to SteelHead product line, convinced the team that the project needs to be expanded to include SD-WAN, SteelFusion and SteelCentral product lines as well.• Actively engaged with engineering, PM, manufacturing, IT, security and support teams to come up with PRD to strengthen Riverbed's platform/portal security and PKI infrastructure.• Prioritized the security requirements from various PM and Engineering teams into a single prioritized list.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Engineering point of contact for all SD-WAN Datacenter customer engagements at Riverbed.• Assisting global customers in SD-WAN Datacenter design, deployments, escalations and Proof-of-Concepts (PoC).• Took initiative to produce SD-WAN troubleshooting documents which assisted Professional Services and Support teams in debugging customer issues, which reduced engineering escalations.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Automation and manual testing of Riverbed's SD-WAN solution on Openstack. • Assisting internal teams by creating multiple Mirantis OpenStack Heat templates. • Developing BGP visibility features on the SteelConnect Manager which is the web GUI to deploy and manage Riverbed's SD-WAN network.• Manual and performance testing of various features on Interceptor product which acts as a load balancer for the Wan Optimization product - Steelheads deployed in Data Centers.

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San Jose, Ca, Us

Mobile network protocol testing on Cisco ASR-5000 with specialization in diameter interfaces for credit control, offline and online accounting, authentication, policy control (QOS). • Was one of the highest bug reporters in the team with nearly 600 bugs in 3 years. This ensured highest quality of product with less/no customer bugs reported. • Automated over 200 test cases in the team even though there was a dedicated automation team.• Delivered high quality product by going beyond my job responsibility of feature testing and took initiative in performing longevity, redundancy tests, stress tests and regression tests by simulating end-to-end customer mobile networks in our labs.• Found complex bugs due to the above initiative, these bugs were usually caught only by Solutions/Longevity QA teams. This reduced the time to reproduce and analyze a bug by 85%.• Started weekly technical sessions for our team to help us better understand the end-to-end solution and not just Diameter interface aspect of it.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Networking

Prepping For The Next Gig

W22

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1St Cohort - Startup Founder Track

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Electronics And Communications Engineering