Vice President, Software Engineering
Current• Privileged to lead a global (U.S., Canada. Ireland, Singapore and India) multi-functional organization, including over 100+ software developers, Devops and operations engineers, in charge with delivering highly-available security services (~30 micro-services/platforms) that protect Salesforce’s infrastructure and enable industry verticals such as Sales, Marketing and Government.• Responsible for long-range planning & technical strategy across multiple clouds (On-Prem, AWS, Azure, GCP), continuous service delivery and full-service ownership for the Network Security and Configuration and Policy Drift detection.• Supported a multi-million USD organizational budget covering product development, vendor, and infrastructure hosting costs• Architected a comprehensive strategy of Network Security across all phases of the software development lifecycle, and built an engineering organization to support all integration verticals.• Built web applications to facilitate control interactions for Salesforce engineers across a wide range of security experiences• Delivered platform for Automatic Policy and Configuration drift detection and remediation with continuous monitoring of security controls and proactively identification and remediation preventing outages and security incidences• Developed NLP and AI based Chatbot which replaced multiple support engineering resources providing delightful customer experience• Hired, mentored and managed top talent including architects, engineers and managers across different geo-locations. Started and rapidly built new engineering teams at Vancouver, Seattle and Bangalore locations• Ignited and fostered a strong culture of innovation and creative thinking. Team filed over 25+ patents in various areas in last 2 years. Personally filed 8 patents applications and multiple applications in pipeline• Multiple Salesforce rewards awarded to services delivered and teams managed