Headline

Product Management Leader | Network & Security | SASE · ZTNA · SD-WAN · Zero Trust | Ericsson | Ex-Cisco | Ex-Nokia

About

Principal Product Manager with 20 years of experience building cloud-native Zero Trust and SASE platforms across Ericsson/Cradlepoint, Nokia, and Cisco from concept to revenue. Delivered 20% ARR upsell on a multi-million-dollar base by shipping AI-ready SD-WAN with ML-based path intelligence and hybrid mesh firewall capabilities- competing directly against tier-1enterprise companies. Known for translating deep network and security architecture into roadmap decisions to unlock major deal pipeline.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Lead Product Manager - SDWAN, SASE at Ericsson, Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Responsible for the Product Strategy of Networking & Security line of business that includes SD-WAN, ZTNA, SW-Firewall, Advanced Threat Protection, IPS/IDS, SWG. Delivering solutions that are "AI-Ready" SD-WAN SASE SW-Firewall VxLAN BGP EVPN SWG

Sr. Product Line Manager, SDWAN at Nokia, Apr 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Spearheaded the technical definition and delivery of high-performance Networking architecture, directly driving a 30% pipeline expansion within enterprise routing markets SD-WAN L3 Routing - BGP, OSPF, ISIS MPLS - L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS Segment Routing

Technical Product Manager,IoT at Cisco, Feb 2016 - Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore,India, Directed global product lifecycle for core Industrial IoT Networking portfolio (ASR900U, Catalyst IR8340), driving market entry into the global utilities sector and unlocking multi-million-dollar deployment pipeline. Handholding customers that are transitioning TDM networks to IP/MPLS. MPLS, L3VPN, L2VPN, MPLS-TE, FlexLSP. Well versed with Industrial protocols like DNP3, PROFINET, MODBUS, SCADA, LoRAWAN

Senior Software Engineer at Cisco, Jun 2010 - Jan 2016 · 5 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, System/Solution testing for Routing, MPLS, L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS, Segment Routing

Software Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent, Jan 2009 - May 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos, Greater Chennai Area, System Testing for Core routing product - OSPF,BGP,ISIS

Member Technical Staff at HCL Technologies, 2004 - 2008 · 4 yrs

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing & Strategy, Great Lakes Institute of Management

B.E, EEE, Periyar University