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title: "Ramakrishnan Narayanaswamy - Lead Product Manager - SDWAN, SASE in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Ramakrishnan Narayanaswamy, Product Management Leader | Network & Security | SASE · ZTNA · SD-WAN · Zero Trust | Ericsson | Ex-Cisco | Ex-Nokia based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and gemini."
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# Ramakrishnan Narayanaswamy on Tal

## 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

claude

cursor

gemini

kiro

Figma Make

## 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

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