• 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

• Lead entire engineering team in planning, development and delivering PTMP product line (A5-14, A5-18 and C5, Fixed Wireless Access points and Client products) Hardware and Software release efforts including major releases, minor releases, and patches, responsible for significant revenue boost for company• Architected and delivered L2 and L3 Networking functionalities on Broadcom Network Processor for Wireless Access Point product line • Delivered software releases with feature set required for "Service Provider" customers driving significant revenue stream • Managing IP Networking, Embedded NMS, Cloud Services, Network Design Tool, User Interface development, SRE, Devops and Mobile Application development teams • Lead Agile Development and processes to deliver high quality embedded and cloud software releases • Leading engineering team responsible for Cloud software development using cutting edge components like Zookeeper, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDb, Mysql, Redis, Docker• Architected and delivered Mimosa Cloud In-A-Box (private cloud solution) with feature parity with Mimosa Cloud Services running in AWS cloud• Leading SRE/DevOps team responsible for AWS infrastructure management (VPC, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, EBS, ELB, Apache Cassandra on AWS EC2 instances etc)• Driven decision-making processes to consensus and ensured actual implementation of product roadmap • Driven strategic planning and design sessions with Product Management, Engineering Management, Architects, Manufacturing and Operations• Hired, mentored and managed a strong team of developers across Santa Clara CA, Istanbul Turkey, Pune India, Barcelona Spain, and Minsk Belarus

• Planned, lead and delivered multiple critical software releases generating over $200M in revenue for FastIron Layer2/3 Switch Product Line• Lead and Managed Network Security, NMS and FIPS/CC teams• Lead team to develop and deliver unified security software framework and features like DHCPv6 Snooping, RA Guard, IPv4/IPv6 ACLs, MAC Authentication, Dot1x Authentication, Web Authentication, Flexible Authentication, MACSEC, OpenFlow (SDN solution) on Marvell and Broadcom network processors based platforms.• Designed and developed multiple security features including IPv6 Ingress ACL, Priority MAC Filtering, Security Framework, TCAM manager, 802.1X Accounting• Lead FIPS/CC certification efforts and got multiple software releases and hardware platforms certified resulting in to additional multi-million revenue stream

• Requirement analysis of multiple security features including Identity Management, Clearflow (statistical anomaly detection), Application blade (generic application framework), FlowVSR (IPS) • Architected, designed and developed multiple security modules, including Identity Management, Clearflow (statistical anomaly detection), Application blade (generic application framework), FlowVSR (Intrusion Prevention System Solution), SFLOW (traffic monitoring and sampling) for EXOS Network Operating System• Analysis of deployment scenarios, functionality and supported feature lists for different modules• Participated in deciding roadmap for future releases and product line.

• Architected, designed and developed Intrusion Prevention System and other security features running on a a multi-core ASIC for LanEnforcer Secure Switch• Developed Dataplane software module of IPS and other security modules• Architected Control Plane, NMS and ASIC components required for IPS• Provided key inputs for the design of Intrusion Detection and Pattern Matching Engine of multi-core ASIC• Designed Protocol Anomaly Engine, malware detection and worm containment modules• Actively participated in deciding roadmap for future releases, ASIC and products• Lead a team of engineers working on various security modules like Firewall, ALGs and event logging framework• Mentor and Trained team members on various security topics and modules

• Design and developed one of the world’s first Unified Threat Modeling Network security products right from scratch • Architected, designed and developed Multi Gigabit Firewall with a powerful stateful deep packet inspection engine, with the facility for policy enforcement based on the different Packet flags, IP options, Port Number, Application Protocol and User defined policy rules.• Designed and developed RADIUS authentication module for access control • Implemented several common infrastructure and kernel modules for Vitesse/Sitera Network Processor• Developed various features of Unified Security Manager a highly scalable network wide security management system for efficiently managing multiple security applications• Designed and developed an Automatic Front end Java Code Generator for Unified Security Manager UIo Added support for LDAP authenticationo Enhanced URL Filtering solution by adding incremental database download feature.o Implement Protocol Anomaly feature to detect attacks based on malformed packets and non standard application payload

• Design, implementation and testing of decode programs for various protocols like, RSVP (QoS), TCAP (SS7), H.323, H.245 and SIP• Developed a H.323 traffic generator for the ASN encoded H323 Traffic• Developed a traffic generator for Testing of Decodes• Designed and development of FlexStream/C-MDE back end tools for IC design• Developed tools and utilities using PERL to automate testing and profiling• Designed and developed PDU Generator tool for Networking and Telecom software testing. Written a grammar for message template specification and parser and tool to generate various combinations of PDUs based on user specified message definition.• Lead team of 11 engineers on various projects