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SecuritiDirector of Software Engineering
Apr. 2021San Francisco Bay Area• Leading Software Development for Multi-cloud Security Posture via K8s. Integrated with GCP, AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
• Technical leadership involving design, development, automation while managing international teams. Coordinate Agile implementation and contribute hands-on to software development for on-boarding customers to the Securiti platform.
• Support Sales and Delivery teams with PoCs and integration of customer clouds with 1000s of data systems housing terabytes of data.
• Co-create high quality documentation by authoring highly technical content for doc team.
• Accountable for cloud expenditure tracking and minimization.
• Evaluation of technical solutions for scaling SaaS capabilities. Plan and execute backend stack changes and migration to address evolving business needs. Stack experience: Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, Go, Python, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud Marketplaces, GraphDB, RDF, Gremlin, GraphQL, Kafka, GCP PubSub, AWS SQS, Serverless, REST APIs.
epiphani incHead Of Engineering
Dec. 2019San Francisco Bay Area• Built Whiteboard.chat (https://www.whiteboard.chat) SaaS EdTech platform from the ground up in a lean startup environment.
• Startup experience right from bootstrapping the office to taking on several roles involving - Software Development, Technical leadership, UI/UX design, CDO Data Security, Quality Assurance, Support, DevOps, Marketing, SEO, and Audio-Video production.
• Responsible for running a SaaS service at scale supporting 1000s of international educators daily.
• Achieved GDPR, CA1584, COPPA, and FERPA compliance. Aware of privacy and data security laws.
• Developed Android and Windows versions of Whiteboard.chat for Large Interactive Flat Panels and Mobile devices. Implemented complex drawing algorithms with touch, stylus, wacom style tablet interfaces.
• Established partnerships with Microsoft & Google - integrated Teams, Office, and Google Classroom.
Integrated Chat GPT, Microsoft Immersive Reader, Google Handwriting Recognition, Google Voice recognition, Google Translate APIs, Microsoft SSO, Google OAuth, and Accessibility. Stack experience: AWS Amplify, AppSync, GraphQL, GCP Speech, Text & Lang APIs, Javascript, Typescript, ReactJS, PaperJS, Python, Android, Electron, Java, Kotlin, Chargebee, Figma, GitHub, GitLab, Sprig.
ViaSat Inc.Director
Jun. 2015 - Dec. 2019San Jose, California, United States• Virtualized Access Service Network software to run on commodity hardware and lead its DevOps. • Delivered container and OS images for ground system virtualization for ViaSat-2 satellite.
• Managed maintenance of legacy hardware supporting 500K nationwide internet subscribers..
• Designed and developed customizations for Viasat’s Inflight WiFi Service.
• Led the innovation team that introduced Carbon Hybrid (Bonding of Satellite Internet + DSL) internet service. Partnered with AT&T and CenturyLink for early deployments to field.
• Led 4 Managers and their teams responsible for Satellite Ground station infrastructure software, Satellite User Terminal software, New initiatives, Monitoring and DevOps.
• Regularly present to CEO and VPs on innovations, engineering progress and vision.
• Develop PoCs for the CEO to show to the FCC, Microsoft, and High-profile Investors like Black Rock.
• Prepare demos and present quarterly business unit status to engineering leaders in the company.
• Own project planning, including resource allocation, develop timelines for phased delivery.
• Hired and Mentored several fresh graduates now at AWS, Google Cloud, Tesla, and Meta.
• Coach team members in setting individual career goals. Performance reviews and bonus calibration.
EngreenDirector Software Engineering
Jun. 2014 - May. 2015San Jose, California, United States• Owned implementation of key Virtualization features including virtualization of WiMAX ASN gateway for use in ground backhaul network.
• Startup experience requiring proactive execution, leadership and do-what-it takes approach.
• Implemented Python, Django Bootstrap, Openstack based Virtual Entity and Network Orchestrator.
• Hands-on involved in the full stack implementation, storyboarding, UI/UX design, graphics, icons, logo, design, explainer video production.
• Virtualized network functions such as Ostinato traffic generator, databases, and SDN routing.
EngreenMTS
Jan. 2013 - Jun. 2014
CiscoManager Software Development Engineering
Sep. 2009 - Jan. 2013San Jose, California, United States• Part of the core team that designed and developed TCP/IP Stack for transparent connection interception for WAN acceleration. Our team won the prestigious Cisco Pioneer Award.
• Engineering Manager for SSL Application Accelerator used in Cisco WAAS. Managed team of 8 in San Jose and contractor team of 5 in India. Coached and Mentored several junior team members coming from non-CS backgrounds.
• Interviewed and hired several high caliber engineers into the team.
• Owned software release planning for Cisco WAAS. Successfully published 15+ releases over a period of a year.
• Responsible for new hardware validation, porting of software, publishing software to production line, preparation of CDROM images.
• Tech lead for Linux Kernel updates to transparently intercept TCP connections at core and edge. Worked with Foxconn to integrate Fail-to-wire TCP NIC. Implemented tools for troubleshooting TCP/IP connection failures and congestion.
• Owned the WCCPv2 implementation & SSL Web Acceleration for Cisco WAN Accelerator WAAS.
Hands-on development of TCP/IP features and debugging issues in complex network paths.
• Co-authored 2 Patents in the area of Tracing Connection Paths Through Transparent Proxies.
CiscoTech Lead
Apr. 2008 - Sep. 2009
Cisco Systems Inc.Engineer
Mar. 2001 - Apr. 2008
Trilogy Software Inc.Consultant
Jul. 1999 - Mar. 2001
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