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Staff Product Manager | Network & Cloud Infrastructure SaaS | DDI, SD-WAN, Applied AI | Ex-Cisco

About

At Infoblox, I'm a Staff Product Manager modernizing on-premise and cloud SaaS workflows for the DDI feature set. Before Infoblox, I spent 15 years building and scaling global products. At Cisco, I co-led strategy and execution for Fixed Access, pureplay SD-WAN, and hybrid-work platforms — full lifecycle across hardware, software, management, and UX — within a $350M/year platform portfolio. One product line grew from inception to $40M/year and reached 4,500+ customers in 100+ countries; an earlier $500M co-development program ran with a top telecom. Along the way: three issued patents, a Certified Scrum Master, and an Executive PG Diploma in Management from IIM Rohtak. I use data heavily and have built BI dashboards on large datasets for VP-level reporting. My GTM work keeps me close to the sales motion and the deal, and I've shipped in both agile and waterfall environments. AI tooling is a big part of work - the early-access outreach that brought in our first seven customers ran on Claude and Glean, customized at scale, and I prototype features in Claude Code before committing engineering time. For analysis, I keep a source-grounded knowledge base I maintain and query, with linting to catch drift.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

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elevenlabs

gemini

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Work experience

Staff Product Manager at Infoblox, Dec 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Leading the modernization of the Infoblox Network Identity Operating System (NIOS), moving upgrades, UX, and documentation into SaaS-style flows in the cloud portal. - Productized the early-access program as a self-service portal flow — image downloads, remote lab access, test-case distribution, and feedback capture — and recruited 7 enterprise design partners. - Defining next-generation hardware to run both on-prem and cloud versions of NIOS. - Owning product requirements for high-availability and near-zero-downtime upgrade paths.

Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Routing and SD-WAN at Cisco, Jul 2018 - Nov 2025 · 7 yrs 5 mos, Product Management/Strategy, Go-To-Market and New Product Introduction for Enterprise Routing and SD-WAN. - Co-led product strategy, GTM, and NPI for the SD-WAN and Fixed Access (ISR1K) portfolios. - Drove global pureplay SD-WAN adoption to 4,500+ customers across 101 countries. - Led offer creation, certifications, and Early Field Trials with Service Providers; owned MSP-led RFP responses. - Launched a Teleworker solution for a new segment, spanning hardware, OS, management software, and UX. - Built automated Tableau and Power BI dashboards on large datasets for VP-level reporting, and ran India-region GTM.

Senior Program Manager, Datacenter LAN/SAN Switching Business at Cisco, May 2010 - Jun 2018 · 8 yrs 2 mos, - Delivered 4+ major hardware and software products end-to-end, on or ahead of schedule, across agile and waterfall. - Ran a $500M co-development engagement with a top India telecom across Engineering, Operations, and Sales. - Delivered SAN switching programs generating ~$130M in annual revenue; earlier hardware programs: ~$50M. - Founding member of the Cisco India Program Management Office; established a Low Score Follow-Up process across a $2B portfolio.

Business and Delivery Head at Flatworld Solutions, Apr 2008 - Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore, Owned P&L and a 120-person delivery org, reporting to the CEO; grew revenue 2x. Led requirements, design, and beta for a SaaS web-based workflow management tool. Built processes to convert customer requirements into workflows, achieving ISO 9000 certification. Drove lean B2B demand generation through case studies, white papers, and SEO.

Education

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management, General Management, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

Certificate Program, Market Assessment Program Foundations (MAPf), McKinsey and Company for Cisco