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Mountain View, CA, US

Milpitas, California, US

• Cyral is a Series B ($41MM total funding) startup on a mission to simplify Data Security and Governance for enterprises.
• As the leader of the core platform team, responsible for building the majority of the product, I collaborated daily with the CTO, spearheaded efforts to enhance database support, scaling from 4 to 10.
• Achieved an impressive 90% feature parity across the expanded range of supported databases, ensuring comprehensive functionality. This enhancement led to a remarkable 45% conversion rate from the initial pitch to POC.
• Facilitated direct engagement with major enterprises, eliciting usability feedback, gathering requirements, delivering new feature demos, and ultimately elevating customer satisfaction levels. This boosted the POC.
• To enable the solution's integration into latency-sensitive environments, I coordinated the creation of a performance benchmarking framework. By guiding the team, we reduced QPS/latency overhead from 25% to 5%.
• Led talent acquisition efforts, assembling a high-caliber team to drive product development. Over the course of the 1st year, recruited 10 engineers (3 senior), effectively doubling the team headcount to 20.

Redwood City, California, US

• Led the core team at Equinix Metal (formerly Packet), a leader in bare metal automation, overseeing Control Plane and Networking functionality, pivotal components in the seamless operation of Equinix Metal's.
• Successfully led the expansion of a geographically dispersed and culturally diverse team of engineers, increasing its size from 15 to 20 within a year. Provided mentorship and guidance to the Engineering Manager in.
• Expanded Equinix Metal offering from 4 Datacenters to 10 Datacenters within a span of 1 year.

San Jose, California, US

• Unified Cloud Platform Development:
• Played a key role in developing the Unified Cloud Platform as part of HPE's Everything-As-A-Service initiative, collaborating closely with the CTO office to align with organizational goals.
• Participated in architecting the platform based on microservices principles, leveraging technologies including Kubernetes (k8s), Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
• Orchestrated the integration of the platform with backend IT systems, delivering a unified customer experience encompassing Registration, Login/Logout, Authentication (AuthN)/Authorization (AuthZ), Subscription/License.
• Played an important role in developing an On-prem version of the Aruba Cloud Network Management System (Central), facilitating the seamless transition for customers (5 big Enterprises, 10 Universities in a quarter).
• Successfully led the transition of the legacy breadwinner product, Airwave to partner teams in low-cost regions without customer revenue impact (35MM annual revenue). Transitioned the team to the next-gen NMS (Central).

San Jose, CA, US

• Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) - a set of features for the WAN running on Cisco branch-office routers
• Worked on building SD-WAN Infra for service providers using K8S, Docker containers, Cassandra, Kafka and secure connectivity with TLS
• Identified the right talent, formed the team, worked closely with stakeholders to collect the requirements, involved in making the right technology choice, planning and executing the project

San Jose, CA, US

• Pioneered the development of a SaaS platform on Cisco Cloud leveraging OpenStack technologies, achieving rapid customer adoption of 100+ customers within 3 months.
• Directed team efforts in establishing CI/CD, Zero Downtime rolling upgrades, and customer support models, driving successful product delivery and operations.
• Conceptualized and developed an intuitive guest Wi-Fi captive portal builder, working closely with major customers such as MLB and delivering features rapidly introducing Agile Development Methodologies.
• Established partnerships with Facebook and Google teams for Social Wi-Fi offerings, enhancing product visibility through blogs, videos, tech talks, webinars, and customer demos.

San Jose, CA, US

• Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI), Cisco WCS, and CNA
• Shouldered various roles during the design, architecture, implementation, and support of framework and critical modules
• Designed and delivered integration with Cisco Identity Services Engine with intuitive workflows
• Responsible for design, automation, and implementation of internationalization (I10N) and localization (L10N) of CNA since it is widely used in different geographies of the world

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN

• Cisco LAN Management Solution (LMS):
• Started as a software engineer to develop new features in Cisco View module
• Quickly grew to the Team Lead and delivered some key functionalities