Director Of Engineering

• Jun 2021 - Present

I am leading the Global R&D (Modern APM) team in the domain of a Full Stack Observability (FSO) to SaaS & Cloud-Native platforms @ Appdynamics (Cisco). Owning Org wide efforts and taking lead to define the OpenTelematry/OSS strategies Primarily responsible for building end to end APM and Observability solutions for latest technology stack based dynamic languages/frameworks, Open Telemetry compliant distributed tracers, and monitoring systems for dynamic technologies like Python, PHP, Java, Go Ruby etc. Dealing with modern tech-stake like Kafka, Spark, dockers, AWS and Hadoop, that entail developing world class collectors, big data pipelines, highly available storage, and visualization dashboards. The resulting products provide exploratory, predictive and prescriptive capabilities to our customers to stay on top of their production systems. Show less

Engineering Leader

• Jun 2021 - Present

I am leading a modern APM team in the domain of a Full Stack Observability to SaaS and Cloud-Native platforms for AppDynamics (a Cisco company) I am leading a modern APM team in the domain of a Full Stack Observability to SaaS and Cloud-Native platforms for AppDynamics (a Cisco company)

Senior Engineering Manager

• Mar 2016 - Jun 2021

I am leading global software engineering and DevOps @ SCE (Synopsys Central Engineering). I am owning Central SWE (Engineering Components – EC) teams from India. The team is responsible for developing software tools, the core framework and library components (APIs and SDKs) for Synopsys R&D and external customers. In addition to this, the team also extends the expertise of porting R&D products/LIB & develop DevOps tools for debugging/productivity enhancement. I help and mentor team by providing technical directions, share inputs on product roadmap, prepare product specifications and get involved in decisions that have a major impact on business strategy and growth. Responsibilities: - • Global Ownership for SW Product & Tools/API Development & Support (India and USA). • Accountable for the Product Quality, Deliverables, and Processes assessments (DevOps). • Define Product Roadmap and write specifications/architecture • Extend leadership for cross-functional/BU wide Initiatives/Innovations activities • Performance Assessments and Appraisals. Team Engagement and expansion (Hiring) Product Portfolios: - • Synopsys Profiling Platform - Anomaly Reporter (AnRep) - Application Tracer (AppTracer) - Application Diagnostics (SDP) • Cloud/On-Primes Data Migration Tools - Synopsys Cloud Transfer Packager (SCTP) - Synopsys Testcase Packager (STP) - Synopsys Telemetry System o Product Insight - Telegram Library - Crash Registration Systems Show less

Engineering Manager - Head of PDE

• Nov 2009 - Mar 2016

I managed Product Delivery Engineering (PDE) team for Advance Software Division (ASD) @ EMC. I own the product delivery & engineering services to EMC customers. SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS :: • Ownership for the India ASD Product Delivery Engineering (PDE) Group for ECS, ViPR, SRM/ECC, SMARTS Products Sustenance engineering team. • Expansions in size of team to 3x (7 to 25 members) in 18 months. ~100% retention in last 3+ years. • Established a divisional structure and performance management benchmark process and hired international professionals to support the company’s global expansion. • Has direct involvement/influence on product revenue growth from $40 million to $300 million in a period of 18 months. • Interaction and influence @ BU level. Added new 3 new Products to team Portfolio. • Focused encouragement for in-house talent growth. 2 of my reporting manager are results of my focused efforts towards coaching and mentoring. Product Managed :: 1. ViPR SRM (Storage Resource Management): EMC ViPR SRM is storage resource management software that enables IT to visualize storage relationships, analyze configurations and capacity growth, and optimize resources to improve return on investment (ROI). 2. ViPR SAS (Service Assurance Manager): EMC ViPR SAS is an Open solution for managing the technology infrastructure that provides integrated, unified, and individualized views of the systems, network infrastructure, applications, and business entities that comprise the managed domain. 3. ECS: EMC ECS Appliance, powered by EMC ViPR provides a complete hyper scale infrastructure. It provides comprehensive data storage for 3rd platform applications by offering universal access to File, Block, Object and HDFS access protocols on a single platform. The ECS Appliance is specifically designed to support Mobile, Cloud, Big Data and Social Networking applications. Show less

Senior Technical Staff

• Dec 2004 - Nov 2009

Worked for Sun Microsystems, Bangalore, as a Senior Software Engineer (MTS-3) for designing and developing Diagnostics Products on Solaris/Linux. Worked for Sun Microsystems, Bangalore, as a Senior Software Engineer (MTS-3) for designing and developing Diagnostics Products on Solaris/Linux.

Sr. Software Engineer

• Dec 2003 - Dec 2004

Worked for Siebel CRM 7.7 (Client: Siebel Inc. USA). Worked responsibilities involved: 1. Designed/developed/maintained automation utility for Siebel 7.7 2. Handled platform certification team and enhanced/maintained Siebel 7.7 for different supported Siebel application database like MSSQL, DB2 and Oracle. 3. Participated in designing team for Siebel version 7.8 on J2EE and .NET architecture 4. Written automation programs using C/C++ and Shell script for Engg testing on different platform like Windows/Solaris/HP/AIX 5. Provided support to customer and other team members for Siebel installation and configuration on different platform Show less

Software Engineer

• May 2000 - Dec 2003