Experience

seafund

• India
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Partner

  • Sep 2022 - 1 year 4 months

  We are a team of operators who have lived and breathed building businesses. We roll up our sleeves and get down in the trenches with the founders and are the first port of call whenever they run into a roadblock, anything that needs to be done to keep the lights on, we are your guys. Our mission is, to help the next set of technical founders, with small amounts of early capital in getting to market to build efficient and scalable businesses.



Soroco

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Head of Customer Success

  • Jun 2021 - Aug 2022

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India



Persistent Systems

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Vice President

  • Nov 2018 - Feb 2021

  Bengaluru Area, India GM : Cloud, RPA and Core IT Modernization practice



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• GM, Customer Success Unit

  • Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

  India Deliver on Monthly Azure consumption$ growth at Top Enterprise Customers. The team of deep technical Cloud Architects help plan the Customers’ Cloud Infrastructure journey, Help build their Application Migration/Modernization path to cloud, Help with Modernizing their Data Estate and get ready for AI. Cloud Migration and App Modernization for key Azure accounts Managed Architect Teams focused at Apps+Infra and Data+AI #Azure, #DigitalTransformation, #APPS #DATA #AI… Show more Deliver on Monthly Azure consumption$ growth at Top Enterprise Customers. The team of deep technical Cloud Architects help plan the Customers’ Cloud Infrastructure journey, Help build their Application Migration/Modernization path to cloud, Help with Modernizing their Data Estate and get ready for AI. Cloud Migration and App Modernization for key Azure accounts Managed Architect Teams focused at Apps+Infra and Data+AI #Azure, #DigitalTransformation, #APPS #DATA #AI, #$XXMillionrevenuetarget

• GM, DX

  • Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

  Bangalore Deliver Azure revenue and Customer Adds-Adoption thro ISVs and startups ($XXM) Deliver on Microsoft Tools revenue (Visual Studio) ($XX M), DevOps Growth Grow the Startups and Communities using Microsoft Azure. Partner Accelerators, Led Deep technical teams, Sales Teams and evangelist teams. Part of Leadership Team at the AVP level



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Asia Pacific, Software and Services Group

  • Apr 2003 - Dec 2015

  Bengaluru Area, India Developer Relations Division Globally was responsible for driving Enterprise, Mobility and client Developer programs across the large ISV, SI and community Developers. The evangelism effort was to get the developers to innovate on Intel Architecture. Decade long effort to setup teams and relationships across Asia, cutting across several generations of Intel Processors,. Build several dozen developer communities for technologies, University relationships, Developer programs (Hacks, Porting… Show more Developer Relations Division Globally was responsible for driving Enterprise, Mobility and client Developer programs across the large ISV, SI and community Developers. The evangelism effort was to get the developers to innovate on Intel Architecture. Decade long effort to setup teams and relationships across Asia, cutting across several generations of Intel Processors,. Build several dozen developer communities for technologies, University relationships, Developer programs (Hacks, Porting, Key Sales efforts included winning deals across Enterprise (Finance, Manufacturing, Consumer Gaming and HPC(Govt and Academia) customers. Team was also responsible for delivering Design wins for new APIs, Processor capabilities and scaling of Tool chain across customers Server: this team was responsible for several tech transitions on the Server platform with ISVs and large key customer workloads, winning several dozen HPC customers with deep tech focus on workload planning and optimizations. Drive Intel's Software efforts in Mobile: Drive the ISV and developer community to build their apps and technologies on the Intel Atom and related platforms, Drive Community adoption, SDKs, software compat efforts in App stores. Consumer Gaming in Korea and Japan to drive Intel technologies adoption in Server software, AR and other mobile technologies. My leadership and teams were spread across several countries, mix of Tech and sales/Developer marketing (60:40) Deep Developer Expertise in working with Large Enterprise customers and several hundred startups adopting Intel Architecture SDKs Grounds up effort to build Digital Evangelism and very early in use of Social media, radio and local language communities in TWN, KOR, JPN Built a strong leadership pipeline and succession planning worked well over a decade Did 2 assignments to manage the Global teams for several months, giving me a perspective from the HQ side and across continents

• Director Asia, Content Group

  • Jun 2003 - Apr 2005

  Bengaluru Area, India Director For Content Group across Asia. Focus on building tech influence and sales for Gaming, Media and software organizations. managed teams which helped with Intel's relevance in the emerging server market. Helped bring leading software vendors' stack onto Intel architecture. Led Account teams, Partner teams and Technical teams across Asia (incl PRC)

• Specialist Sales Manager

  • Jul 1998 - Jun 2003

  Bengaluru Area, India Focus on Solution selling to Enterprises, SIs and emerging tech companies. Started as Individual Field sales manager for large Enterprises and Software companies. Moved up to managing field teams for India and Asian teams. Strategic Business Investments: Tech Due Dilligence for potential investments, Crafting Business Agreements and strategic connect with Portfolios, Board Observer role.

• Software Development Engineer 3D Graphics

  • Dec 1995 - Jun 1998

  San Francisco Bay Area Building High performance 3D Graphics stack (Geometry and Render Engines) Developer in a small team building and distributing ‘3DR’ a game engine optimized for key Graphics card vendors (ATI, S3, 3DFX,…) and Intel Architecture platform. This also served as a testbed for several research projects, Instruction Set Architecture(ISA) Analysis for Graphics workloads. Partnered with senior researchers to work on memory architectures and Graphics. Developed 3D Graphics engines for open… Show more Building High performance 3D Graphics stack (Geometry and Render Engines) Developer in a small team building and distributing ‘3DR’ a game engine optimized for key Graphics card vendors (ATI, S3, 3DFX,…) and Intel Architecture platform. This also served as a testbed for several research projects, Instruction Set Architecture(ISA) Analysis for Graphics workloads. Partnered with senior researchers to work on memory architectures and Graphics. Developed 3D Graphics engines for open distribution, optimized on Intel Architecture Memory and Caching Architecture Analysis and recommendations Gaming, 3D, C, Performance Ananlysis, Memory Architecture research Highest Intel honor received (Intel Achievement Award) for Performance Graphics stack

• Software Development Engineer

  • Jan 1993 - Dec 1995

  California Lead Developer for CAD Tool (iPLOT): Product definition, Development and deployment ownership CAD Tools, Raster Graphics, Physical Design phase of Chip development. UNIX (several flavors), C, Network Programming, 2D Graphics, CAD, Product Manager


Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• India
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• project associate

  • May 1990 - Dec 1990


Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)

• India
• Telecommunications
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Intern

  • Jan 1989 - Nov 1989

  Bengaluru Area, India Built a Hardware and Software system test system for a Transputer Based (HPC) parallel supercomputer.