Vijay Dsouza

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Senior Leader in Security/Traffic Engineering/Storage (HIRING) @ Netskope
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San Jose, California, United States, United States
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About Vijay Dsouza

Senior leader growing Enterprise and Service Provider businesses for 15+ years. Adept at driving engineering strategies aligned with business needs and building teams to deliver Security, Storage, Policy Management, Application & Network traffic engineering WAN solutions.• People and technical leader driven by ownership, a bias for action and results• Passionate about organizational development rooted in empathy• Business and organizational growth with strategic planning expertise for new and existing solutions• Cross functional leader with effective communication and negotiation skills while creating a safe space for innovation• Execution using practical Agile (automation, CI/CD, TDD) and waterfall practicesINTERESTS - Security, Analytics, IoT, SD-WAN, StorageACCOMPLISHMENTS• YOY increase in employee engagement by driving organizational alignment with accelerated business value achievement• Grew annual revenue to ~$100M, establishing F5's Advanced Firewall Manager as the network security solution for F5's 5G and Cloud offerings with support across edge and multi-tenant next generation platforms• Doubled F5’s Context Aware Policy Enforcement revenue for Service Providers via a product strategy revamp• Drove F5’s IPsec Security Gateway solution with a $3M win by leading an aggressive campaign across geographically distributed teams with weekly customer engagements• Led the engineering delivery of a $10M+ customer win for Ciena's highly available MPLS L2VPN solution• Software Release Management of high quality, predictable releases for ~100 geographically distributed contributors• Patent: 80% improvement in multi-node software image download performance with a simulcast download mechanismTECHNICAL BACKGROUND• Software & Solutions architecture - Highly available distributed systems• AWS, IaaS, Security and WAN Solutions, Networking, Switching & Routing• Firewall, Policy Management, IPS, DDoS, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Application/URL/Video Classification, Traffic Visibility• TCP/IP, IPsec, MPLS, Congestion Management, L2 Protocols, Broadcom, EZchip, SmartNIC• Network Function Virtualization (NFV), SDN, Service Function Chaining (SFC), Containers, Dockers, Kubernetes, Redis, ProtoBuf, Jira, Jenkins

Vijay Dsouza's Current Company Details
Netskope

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Senior Leader in Security/Traffic Engineering/Storage (HIRING)
Vijay Dsouza Work Experience Details
  • Netskope
    Senior Manager, Risk Insights
    Netskope May 2022 - Present
    Santa Clara, California, Us
  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
    Engineering Leader, Storage
    Amazon Web Services (Aws) Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    What is Instance Storage?https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUY-00yFlE4 – around 12:12 into the videohttps://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/About AWS EC2 Nitro: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
  • F5 Networks
    Senior Manager, Engineering
    F5 Networks Oct 2015 - Jul 2021
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Built and grew a customer driven distributed engineering organization that owned Network Security, NFV and Traffic management solutions. These included high-performance next generation Firewall with DDoS mitigation and IDS/IPS, Context Aware Traffic Policy Enforcement with traffic classification and Service Function Chaining (SFC) across multiple platforms.https://www.f5.com/products/security/advanced-firewall-managerhttps://www.f5.com/products/security/ddos-hybrid-defenderhttps://www.f5.com/products/big-ip-services/carrier-grade-nathttps://www.f5.com/products/big-ip-services/policy-enforcement-manager• Delivered short and long term customer solutions with efficient budgeting for the right engineering team strength• Accelerated F5’s Cloud based solutions with DDoS on Intel SmartNIC and multi-tenant F5 platforms• Doubled Policy Enforcement product revenue by broadening the customer base from Service Providers to Enterprises & Universities and established the IPsec Security Gateway as a partner solution of F5’s Firewall product.• Increased customer satisfaction with 90% reduction in customer issues while significantly increasing partnerships between engineering, product management and account teams.• Accelerated software releases by maintaining a high bar for all stages of the software development life cycle and consistently delivering products on preannounced dates.• Led reorganizations with minimal attrition while transforming engineering execution to use practical agile methodologies• Drove organizational growth and built high performing teams with ownership, transparency, trust & courage as key values• Increased business value by revamping product roadmaps to focus on practical use cases and built tactical and strategic execution plans that balanced business priorities and engineering needs
  • Ciena Corporation
    Architect / Principal, Architecture And Advanced Development
    Ciena Corporation Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
    Hanover, Maryland, Us
    Led the software architecture for a scalable, distributed Carrier Grade system for the virtualized (SDN/NFV) carrier market. Architecture focused on ease of use, automation, modularity and software guidelines / frameworks promoting innovation. Solution involved Redis, Protocol Buffers, ZeroMQ, YANG, Yocto and other technologies for distributed architectures.
  • Ciena Corporation
    Senior Manager, Software Engineering
    Ciena Corporation Oct 2011 - Nov 2014
    Hanover, Maryland, Us
    Hands-on leader in system architecture, high availability and IP / MPLS, successful at driving high quality software and organizational growth. Built and led a high performing team that delivered MPLS solutions across the Ethernet product portfolio, leading to successful trials and strategic customer deployments. • Drove multi-million-dollar MPLS adoption by building an OAM suite as an essential offering in the MPLS portfolio• Grew the MPLS portfolio via aggressive roadmap execution and early customer engagement• Increased engineering productivity by establishing platform independent software as the charter for the organization.• Significantly improved software release quality by driving accountability, use case driven development, early test engagement and continuous partnerships between engineering and product management• Minimized employee attrition by increasing employee engagement and creating space for innovation and educated risks• Increased release predictability along with collaboration and accountability across teams while being a Software Release Manager for 80+ geographically distributed contributors.
  • World Wide Packets (Acquired By Ciena Corporation)
    Principal Engineer, Packet Networking
    World Wide Packets (Acquired By Ciena Corporation) Oct 2007 - Oct 2011
    Us
    People and Technical Leader, who wore multiple hats as an architect, developer and mentor. Delivered projects in diverse domains across multiple generations of Carrier Ethernet platforms. Accomplishments include deliverables in system infrastructure, high availability, MPLS (LER, LSR, VPLS, VPWS) and L2 data plane & control plane domains.• Built MPLS L2VPN data planes across Broadcom and NPU platforms• Increased customer adoption of MPLS and L2 solutions with a graceful software upgrade and hitless data plane• Built and executed a strategy for developing a distributed L2 protocols solutions with minimal existing customer impact• Increased L2 switching data path performance ~70% and slow path performance ~4000% by optimizing the NPU• Built effective engineering practices by forging a close collaboration between development, test and product management.
  • Salira Systems (Acquired By Hitachi Ltd.)
    Senior Platform Software Engineer
    Salira Systems (Acquired By Hitachi Ltd.) Jul 2004 - Oct 2007
    Us
    Performed multiple roles as a designer, developer and mentor while participating in all stages of EPON software engineering. Core member of the team, responsible for software frameworks with a focus on high availability, system infrastructure and driver development.• Member of the architecture team tasked with designing the next generation platform targeted for the MSO market space. • Responsible for the design, implementation and support of system infrastructure components.
  • Ciena Corporation / Oni Systems Inc.
    Senior Software Engineer
    Ciena Corporation / Oni Systems Inc. Feb 2001 - Jun 2004
    Senior member of the team responsible for design and development of the management and control planes for the DWDM Network Element and Network Manager.• Invented, designed and developed a Simulcast software download mechanism for the ONLINE Metro platform that made 16-32 node ring software downloads resilient and improved download performance by ~80%.• Built an optical control plane using OSPF, GMPLS RSVP-TE, LMP and PPP• NMS and server development for fault detection, node discovery and performance & memory utilization• Developed IP transport and security along with the OLMP/GMPLS and routing modules

Vijay Dsouza Skills

Tcp/ip Ip Software Engineering C Routing Networking Telecommunications Embedded Systems Ethernet Mpls Internet Protocol Suite Strategy Release Management Architecture High Availability Memory Management Routing Protocols Risk Management Talent Management Redundant Systems Distributed Systems Data Modeling Carrier Ethernet Embedded Software Oam Netconf Udp Bfd Data Management Nfv Sdn Snmp Real Estate Investment Strategies C (Programming Language

Vijay Dsouza Education Details

  • University Of Southern California
    University Of Southern California
    Electrical Engineering
  • University Of Mumbai
    University Of Mumbai
    Electronics And Telecommunications

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Vijay Dsouza works for Netskope

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Vijay Dsouza's current role is Senior Leader in Security/Traffic Engineering/Storage (HIRING).

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Vijay Dsouza's email address is v.dsouza@f5.com

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Vijay Dsouza attended University Of Southern California, University Of Mumbai.

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