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#Global Engineering #CyberSecurity #Quality #Innovation #Customer #Cloud #Culture #Embedded #Linux

About

Leadership and Management: • Customer focused Engineering and leadership • Business growth, Product Strategy decisions with Product Management. • Leading Geographically Distributed Engineering teams and Charter • Setting up teams from scratch and Growing the org. • People Mentoring and grow talent pool. • Create Product Evangelists. Engineering: • Building Systems and Services offering Security and Quality to Azure Customers, for better adoption and attach. • Engineering Planning, Execution and Delivery - Requirements Breakdown, Effort Estimation, Risk anticipation & Mitigation. • Low Level Design Discussions and Design Reviews. • Cloud Cloud Ready Data Protection Solutions for Virtualized Environment, Storage Virtualization. • Linux Endpoint Security Solution, System Programming (C & Unix), DS, Linux Internals • SCSI device drivers (SAM-3), MPIO FC-SCSI interfacing, Libpthread.

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Director of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, India

Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Apr 2022 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs, India

Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Dell EMC, Oct 2019 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore, Engineering Data Protection, Data Management solutions for File System data and Microsoft Technologies/Applications.

Engineering Manager at Dell EMC, Feb 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Engineering and Management for Data Protection solution for File System data and Microsoft Technologies/Applications.

Software Engineering Manager at Intel Security, Aug 2015 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Engineering And Management of Whitelisting Security Solution on Unix based Enterprise machines and Fixed Function Devices (Embedded gateway devices targeted for IoT market, Printer Devices, PoS etc) a) People Management, Cross functional Project Management b) Understand customer requirements, Technical feasibility analysis and Work Scope Identification. c) Effort estimation, Release scheduling, Project Planning and Execution to Solution delivery. d) Product presentations (future roadmap) across various groups, tech events/seminar, design discussions e) Visits to customers/partners to propose our security solution, resolve product escalations/concerns.

Tech Lead at Intel Security, Apr 2011 - Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 4 mos, Gurgaon, India, - Security Engineering (R&D) with McAfee Embedded Control Group of Intel Security Group. - Security solution for Intel IDP (Intelligent Device Platform) stack for IoT, Smart Energy Grid. - Requirement Analysis, Feasibility Study and Customer Interfacing, Technical Liaising (PM, JDP, - QA and Support). - Cross Compilation (Atom-Baytrail, Xeon, Haswell, Quark etc) - Yocto Compliant Bitbake recipes/WR layers - Various Technical Presentations - MEC for Android, Java, Xerox. - PoCs - Idea Submissions

Senior Software Engineer at EMC, Mar 2010 - Apr 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Storage Virtualization

Senior Software Engineer at IBM, Aug 2006 - Jan 2010 · 3 y 5 mo, Hyderabad

System software engineer at Hewllet-packard, Jun 2004 - Aug 2006 · 2 y 2 mo, Bangalore

Education

Graduate - Experiential Leadership Program, Leadership and Management, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science, University of Rajasthan