Gurudatt Pai
Staff Product Manager - Cloud native protection @ Rubrik | Building Cyber Resilience Products | CCIE x 2
Bengaluru
11+ years of work experience
Aug 20242 yrs 1 moPresent
Building Cyber resilience products/features to protect Cloud native Workloads running on AWS
- Launched Cyber resilience and Immutable protection of AWS Dynamo DB Tables
- Launched Enhanced Protection for AWS RDS PostGreSQL DBs with Immutability and Archival
- Launched Protection features for Large AWS S3 buckets with Billions of Objects with the ability to backup in < 24 hours.
- Launched Scalable and Simplified Bulk onboarding with AWS Orgs
- Built and Launched a Fully hosted and Managed Cloud Protection for AWS workloads catering to Mid market customers with Low to zero infrastructure built on their end.
- Planned and Executed a phase wise strategy to revamp Rubrik Terraform Provider resources, Examples and documentation to make it one of the most downloaded and adopted among Cloud customers.
- Planned, executed and Launched Client-Side encryption/Bring-your-own-Key for all workloads protected by Rubrik for AWS, Azure and GCP
- Planned and executed Security functionalities such as SSL inspection, HTTPS Proxy support for workloads being backed up via Rubrik's compute layer/data plane.
- Simplified Deployment models/compute for Cloud resilience that reduced friction among customers and reduced POC time for Field teams
Oct 202311 mosAug 2024
India
Principal/Lead PM for Lifecycle management operations and Day N features for Azure VMware solution (AVS)
- Drove features and Execution to Resolve Critical Security Vulnerabilities on all Existing customer SDDCs running on vSphere 7 with complete Automation End-End
- Defined the Life cycle management strategy and Roadmap for next-gen Upgrades for all AVS SDDCs running on vSphere 8
Jan 20221 yr 10 mosOct 2023
India
->Lead Product Manager for all core vCenter features - Control-plane, DB, High Availability, Day 2/N Operations
->Led the delivery of several key features on vSphere 8, 8.0u1 and 8.0u2 such as Reduced down-time upgrades (<5 min downtime) for vCenter HA environments, Enhanced Recovery of vCenter using Distributed-key Value store for VMC on AWS and On-Prem vCenter , vSphere HA troubleshooting workflows.
->Introduced DayN UI workflows to configure Prefix-based MAC allocation for Large vCenter/vSphere deployments in vSphere 8.x which simplifies deployment/operations for large Data centers.
->Led the PM/market strategy and defined the MVP requirements for a purpose built low-footprint Control-plane (<1 GB RAM and 1vCPU) to Simplify Edge infrastructure Operations and support VM/Modern workloads along with networking functionalities.
-> Defined the requirements and MVP use cases for Data anonymization and Inbound data controls
within vSphere plus/VMware Cloud
->Delivered One-click upgrade support on vSphere+ for VCHA deployments.
->Delivered non-disruptive Certificate renewals and rotation for vCenter HA deployments without requiring any service restarts.
->Defined the MVP use cases for VCF + and led the execution till General Availability.
->Led the Quarterly feature/backlog planning and stack ranking the Core Management platform features
for the entire vSphere PM team.
-> Presented a breakout session on " Continious vCenter availablity" at VMexplore 2022 and several
VMUG sessions on vSphere 8
May 20201 yr 9 mosJan 2022
India
- Led a high performance team of Technical Marketing Engineers/Solution Architects within EN Product Management accountable for Cisco's flagship NetOps and AIOps platform(Cisco DNA Center) which is responsible for over 50% Software Subscription Revenue within Enterprise networking Group.
- Lead , Scope and Drive Feature Roadmaps ,Use cases and Architecture for Campus switching and Wireless Automation .
- Publish Video collaterals, Solution design guides including technical decision makers, deployment guides, frequently asked questions and white papers.
- Work with customers and partners at deep-dive architectural level & Collaborate at executive level driving the Cisco end-to-end vision.
- Thought leadership driving cross-domain integration between Enterprise networking , Security and DC
products providing customers with a unified view across Cisco’s portfolio and driving pull-through of security business along with enterprise portfolio.
- Go to Market engagements such as Sales kickoffs and Partner Enablement via Trainings, Webinars, Hands-on Labs and Cisco Live Breakouts
Conduct product / feature Early Field Trials with customers and partners.
- Work closely with Engineering, UX teams ,Customers, Sales Engineers, TAC, Managed Services for a closed loop between Product design, launch and Go-to-market.
May 20182 yrs 1 moMay 2020
- Led the development of Solution Architecture for Business-Intent based End-End Campus QOS Automation on Cisco’s flagship NetOps and AIOps platform Cisco DNA Center
- Led the Solution Architecture for Simplified Telemetry across Campus network devices such as Switches, routers and Wireless for Optimized collection of Application Performance/Experience stats
- Developed Solution Guides, Field Trial content and presented several Customer facing and Sales facing presentations on Network Automation and Assurance
- Drove features and use cases for Application policy, Application Assurance from the field and prioritized them as part of Roadmap (DPL)
- Worked with UX teams to design workflows and provide feedback from the field
- Worked with Engineering to groom features , usability and Serviceability features
- Led a team of TMEs and mentored them on various Enterprise networking technologies.
- Presenter at Cisco Live conferences across the world.
Following are some of my Cisco Live Sessions
BRKOPS-2050 - Deploying advanced network services from Cisco DNA Center (Barcelona 2020)
BRKSDN-2295 - Taming the wild wild west of applications using Cisco DNA Center QOS policy (Barcelona 2020)
BRKSDN-2295 - DNA Center App policy [ Barcelona 2019]
BRKNMS-2295 - DNA Center App policy [ San Diego 2019]
BRKRST-2684 - Migration Traditional network Management to Intent based networking [ Melbourne -2019]
BRKRST-3685 - Taming the wild wild west of Applications using DNA Center [ Melbourne 2019]
DEVNET-2048 - Flexible netflow for Developers [ Las Vegas 2017]
Mar 20162 yrs 2 mosApr 2018
- Started as one of the early TMEs in 2016 for APIC-EM SDN Controller that evolved into DNA Center Automation/Assurance in 2017.
-Drove Adaption , Support Sales Enablement and Go-To-Market activities for DNAC, Cisco Solution Apps and API's across APJC and EMEA
- Proof of Concepts, EBC's, Speaker at Partner Events, Cisco live and other events.
- Inbound activities such as Writing Collaterals, Design Guides and building various demo's for DNAC apps such as Plug n Play, IWAN app, Application policies , Enterprise NFV, Wired and Wireless Assurance , Analytics based on Machine learning.
Apr 20121 yrMar 2013
- Plan , Architect and Design for Future technologies
- Design Enhancements to the existing security technologies
- Driving efficiency
- Engineering processes
- Technology standards enhancement
- Service ownership and service Life cycle management
Gurudatt’s AI Stack
Education
Advanced Product Management Professional, Product leadership
Institute of Product Leadership
20152015
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