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Summary

Product Management professional with 23 years of experience across Cloud Platforms, Digital Pay TV and Internet of Things.

  • Scale — Built and owned vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) for 7 years — growing from less than 50 early enterprise customers to activated by default across VMware Cloud Foundation (~70% of global enterprise on-premise virtualization).

  • Cloud — Led product strategy & execution for a Kubernetes platform on VMware Cloud Foundation: container orchestration, workload lifecycle, security posture, & enterprise cloud migration across private & hybrid environments. Pursuing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. 

  • People — Led a 40-member engineering organisation (5 direct reports, 2010–12); today, as a PM, influence a 225+ cross-functional organisation across Engineering, UX, Partners, Customers, Legal, Sales and executive leadership.

  • Customer Instinct — Engaged with enterprise & government customers across Banking, Retail, Telecom, Defence, and Immigration verticals at VMware; 250+ days on automotive factory shop floors at Bosch; from requirements to consumer in a week at Magnasoft.

Portfolio Highlights

Products

vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 

  • Reduced Kubernetes release lag from 10–12 months to under 2 months through architectural decoupling — eliminating forced infrastructure upgrade cycles.

  • Built a robust release infrastructure with over 10-12 planned releases a year. 
Photon Operating System (VMware)

  • Owned product strategy, security hardening, adoption, and support lifecycle.

  • Ensured every VMware appliance ships on a secure, compliant, and current OS foundation.

NorthStar (School Bus Tracking)

  • Used Airtel's public open network data to diagnose a <3 star app rating — traced root cause to 2G tower decommissioning at city bus stops, delivered immediate mitigation and strategic recommendation to restore reliability by migrating to 3G.

  • Ran weekly end-to-end product cycles — requirements to UAT in parent-teacher meetings every week.
STB Platform - French Broadcaster

  • Launched new STB hardware with zero field issues. Reduced defects from 1,500 to under 10 in 3 months for other platforms

  • Implemented Multi-site Agile — replacing ad-hoc reporting with a structured delivery cadence that rebuilt client confidence and earned lasting trust.
Customer Experience
 

DirecTV, Tata SKY, GET

  • As Global Program Manager, built multi-site agile teams in India and France and led delivery of complex Digital Pay TV integrations for accounts of $3M–$20M
 Japanese Auto Manufacturer
  • Led the Customer Discovery process & Requirement Engineering process for the Solution Design and implementation of the next-generation Manufacturing Operation Management System 

Professional Experience

Staff Product Manager — vSphere Kubernetes Service

Nov 2019Present
Broadcom (formerly VMware Inc)
  • Product scope: lifecycle management, upgrade orchestration, security hardening, compliance (STIG & CIS), interoperability, and release planning — across a cross-functional team of 225+.

  • Drove VKS product delivery through sustained organisational headwinds — 5 Director transitions and 8 manager changes — maintaining release commitments and pushing strategic initiatives without dropping the ball.

  • Grew from ~50 early enterprise customers to activated by default across the VCF install base (~70% of global enterprise on-premise virtualization) — and drove architectural decoupling that reduced Kubernetes release lag from 10–12 months to under 2 months.

  • Engaged directly with enterprise and government customers across Banking, Retail, Telecom, Defence, and Immigration verticals — discovery calls, pre-sales demos, post-sales escalations, and executive roadmap briefings.

Product Management, Digital Enterprise IoT Products

March 2017Nov 2019
Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions, India
  • Championing Lean Product Management as a Practice for Digital Enterprise focusing on building products for Smart Manufacturing. Responsible for IoT Product Strategy Design, Definition & Execution. 

  • Conducted 250+ days of ethnographic customer research on automotive factory shop floors — translating 1,750+ hours of field immersion into product strategy, customer validation, and GTM for a Digital Quality Management platform. Projected $8M revenue in 3 years.

Product Management, IoT Products

May 2016Dec 2016
Magnasoft Consulting Pvt Limited
  • Lived the life of an Entrepreneur being the go-to person for anything related to Product. Streamlined Product roadmap, Customer Validation through hypothesis & experimentation.

  • Ran rapid weekly iteration cycles for Toggr (GPS smartwatch, child safety platform) — requirements to UAT in 7 days. Diagnosed <3 star app rating using Airtel's public network data; identified root cause and delivered fix that restored reliability.

Product Development, Digital Video Delivery

Jan 2004May 2016
Cisco Systems (Formerly NDS)
  • Defined product strategy and requirements for enterprise Digital Video Broadcast platform products — authoring detailed PRDs, driving roadmap prioritisation, and aligning engineering, QA, and business stakeholders across geographies.

  • Inherited 40-member team in crisis — 1,500+ defects, client confidence lost. Reduced to <10 defects in 3 months. Launched new STB platform with zero field issues. 

  • Rose from software engineer to product manager through delivery — team building (0 to 15), program management, and product ownership earned within Cisco over 12 years.

Education

Executive MBA - Product Management
Institute of Product Leadership
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017

Master of Science - Software Systems
BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan
Jun 2009 - Oct 2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical/Electronics
BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
Oct 1998 - Jul 2002

Awards

FY23 Role Model Award
VMware India Site Strategy
July 2023

IPL Elite Alumni Award 2021
Institute of Product Leadership 
Nov 2021

Cisco-IPL Scholarship Award
Executive MBA
May 2017

Dean's Valedictorian Award
Class of 2015B, Exec MBA, 
May 2017

Community & Leadership

Executive Coach, Career Labs — Institute of Product Leadership (350+ sessions, 300+ professionals, 30+ workshops in 3 years, 1,000+ total hours.
(Oct 2024–Present)

Guest Faculty — Product Management, Institute of Product Leadership.
(Sept 2020 - present)

BMS College of Engineering — Ongoing alumni contribution: industry input into curriculum, student career development sessions, jury at Technology Fests.
(July 2002 - present)

Founding member of the Dasaradhane - an annual Carnatic classical music festival; led planning and execution for 10 years, growing from 50 to 250+ patrons and musicians.
(Feb 2016 - present)

PM Consulting (Start Ups)

IoT-Based Smart Home (Jan 2017)
GTM strategy targeting 1,000 leads in 3 months; delivered persona, solution packaging and pricing simulator

Multi Brand Car Servicing (Jan 2017)
Market research, competitive analysis and product strategy for fragmented urban vehicle servicing market.

Elderly Care Start-Up (Jan 2017)
Value proposition analysis and monetisation strategy for a startup addressing elderly care needs in urban India.

Solar Hybrid Inverter (Jun 2018)
Customer discovery in Bijapur; recommended apartment associations as first segment to acquire 30 customers.

YouAndMe Theatre (Nov 2018)
Product strategy and MVP design for a theatre-based behavioural training startup; developed value proposition and go-to-market approach.