I build and scale zero-trust, multi-cloud security platforms. As a day-one engineer turned lead architect, I helped take a cloud-native workload egress product from concept to $100M ARR, serving 500+ enterprises and 1M+ workloads across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Sovereign Clouds.

Experience

ZscalerPrincipal Software Engineer

2019 — Now

San Jose, CA

Product: Zscaler Cloud Connector—zero-trust workload egress via ZIA/ZPA; modern VPN/firewall alternative.

Scope: technical owner for identity, autoscaling, policy across AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI; formal design authority.

Impact: grew from concept to $100M ARR; 500+ enterprises, 1M+ workloads, 10K+ deployments.

Multi-cloud acceleration: provider-neutral services & CSP adapters (Crossplane/Terraform) → 12→3 mo launches.

Reliability/SDLC: SLO/error-budget, progressive delivery, AIOps; P0 −38% YoY, P95 ≤ 60s (P99 ≤ 180s).

Capacity/uptime: 16× per-cluster sessions, 3× per-VM; ~2-min autoscaling; 99.9%+ uptime.

Hands-on: Go services (policy engine, identity broker, autoscaler), K8s operators, Crossplane/Terraform modules.

Customer results: MTTR −46%; direct engagement with 50+ F500 accounts; expansion revenue $10M+.

CiscoSenior Technical Leader

2015 — 2019

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead Engineer/Open Source Software Developer on the Cisco ACI platform focusing on bringing application policy abstraction to opensource Compute and Networking stacks.

Designed and developed infrastructure software to deploy Cisco ACI Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugins on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Designed and developed infrastructure features on open source networking stacks

Designed and developed OpFlex Agent Features. OpFlex is a southbound protocol in a software-defined network (SDN) designed to facilitate the communications between the SDN Controller and open source infrastructure (switches and routers).

Designed, developed and deployed OpenStack, Kubernetes, VMware and Microsoft SCVMM virtual machines at massive scale on various on-prem and cloud platforms using open-source automation tools.

CiscoTechnical Leader

2013 — 2015

San Jose

Lead Engineer on Cisco's IOS-based operating system that enabled packet switching on next-generation enterprise networks.

CiscoSenior Software Development Engineer

2004 — 2013

San Jose

Application Optimizer Lead Engineer on Cisco's WAN Optimization Solution - WAAS. The role involves designing and developing next-generation optimizer for Microsoft CIFS/SMB protocol.

Lead engineer on Cisco's Global Site Selector (GSS) platform. The role involved designing and developing a proximity-based Global Server Load Balancer.

Motorola SolutionsSoftware Developer In Test

2003 — 2004

Bengaluru Area, India

Software Test Engineer on Symbol's WS5000 Wireless LAN switch platform.

Designed and Developed Infrastructure and Platform tools to support software development workflow.

Education

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, New Delhi

Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing

College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET)

Experience

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing

Bachelor of Technology - BTech