PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Driven, results oriented, versatile professional with 19 years in the enterprise software space in technology development, product management, and business leadership.
• Stellar leadership skills with multiple successes.
• Significant technical depth and work experience at all levels in the windows system software space.
• Quick learner.
• Hands - on leader with solid contacts in the software industry with significant leadership experience in large caps as well as startups.
• Experienced and skilled in managing & building 25-30 people local teams of senior engineers and QA staff. Built an offshore office for a hedge fund.
• As a Sr. VP for a stealth mode startup, built a 15 member team to deliver 2 versions of an enterprise security product.
• Results oriented innovator with experience in several innovative projects including a solution to allow windows thin clients to use USB devices without installing a windows device driver. This innovation attracted attention internationally.
• Well versed with many areas of windows OS internals since 1996. Built NDIS, File system, filter & WDM windows drivers for the network stack, USB stack, and windows file system. Rapid ramp up and hands on experience in architecture, design and development of windows system software and web based technologies.
• Passionate about the customer with experience as product marketing manager.
• Proficient listening & communication skills to gather requirements with a drive to solve customer's issues with out of the box solutions.
• Responsible for product strategy & roadmap in many full SDLC projects using Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Good track record of shipping quality software on time. Built a strong, sustainable, entrepreneurial non-profit organization and took it to the next level by utilizing leadership, marketing and business development skills.
• Skilled in generating solid results from a big team of volunteers who aren't getting paid.
• Successfully navigated a $40mn fund from troubled waters during 2008-2009 crisis as the VP and chief compliance officer of a hedge fund.
• Straight A student. Was amongst the first fifteen Merit Rankers in School and College during University conducted examinations.
• Won ALL INDIA MARTIAL ARTS CHAMPIONSHIP (FC, Kung Fu) in my weight category.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• C ( 19 yrs. ), C++ ( 19 yrs. ), C#(10 yrs), Java (1 yr), SDK/DDK programming(18 years), MFC, Assembly
• COM/DCOM (4 yrs), MS WINDOWS Language, Kernel development libraries
• (WinDK, VtoolsD), WinDBG dump analysis, Core Kernel Knowledge of Commercial OSes like
• SOFTICE Kernel Debugger, Microsoft Visio, MS Windows 7, Windows 7 embedded, IPC, project, Bugzilla, Redmine. Pipes, TCP/IP Protocol, UPnP, SIP, RTP, XMPP threads, Multi-Process environments, .NET protocol, 802.11 Wireless protocols, NFS framework, Winsock TCP/IP Sockets Programming Protocol,RPC, Win WDM, kernel mode, File system
• DDK Programming, Win 32 SDK Programming, filter drivers, WFP drivers & Win 95 VxDs, Windows
• Windows NT Services & Domains, Object Oriented
• HTML, XML, Java, Ajax, GWT, Javascript, EXT-JS, PHP, Python, UML, Design patterns.
• Team leadership
• Project management
• Powerful negotiator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software engineering manager

Confidential

Technologies used: Java.

Responsibilities:

• Enabled enhanced video experiences using Alexa for millions of people around the globe with a team of up to 17 engineers to deliver voice enabled Echo show, Echo spot, Smart TVs, Game consoles etc. by leveraging Confidential Video & FireTV. Customers could utter commands like "Play interstellar", "Search comedy movies" etc. to play, search & control videos on these devices.
• Hired 3 engineers through internal transfers, engineers from outside Confidential, promoted 1 engineer to
• SDE 3 and 2 engineers to SDE 2.
• Developed a psychologically safe environment that ensured zero attrition and a high team morale throughout.
• Pioneered international expansion of Alexa enabled Confidential video services in Europe, Far east, Australia etc.
• Created new engineering processes and promoted a design heavy culture within our team.

Director

Confidential

Technologies used: C, C++, Win DDK, File system minifilter, WFP drivers, NDIS, TDI & generic drivers.

Responsibilities:

• Managed strategy, roadmap & P&L for a 27 person org (includes 2 development managers) that sustains 6 Confidential products generating about $500 mn in revenue for Intel.
• Significantly improved the stability and brand of 2 out of the 6 highest revenue generating products by leveraging key strategic initiatives, managing risk and effective cross team collaboration techniques between product management, technical support, and other development teams.
• Reduced attrition by 20% by creating a better Confidential wide prioritization model for incoming escalations in engineering and initiated conversion of processes from waterfall to Agile within my organization.
• Mentored managers as well as individual contributors.
• Shielded most of the team from interruptions by initially starting out in the group as a developer fixing customer escalations for Mcafee's enterprise windows endpoint threat protection solution that involves about 10 kernel mode drivers and about 5 user mode components.
• Hired as a Director within 6 months.

Sr. Vice President

Confidential

Technologies used: C, C#, Win DDK, File system minifilter & WFP drivers, PHP, Angular JS, Python.

Responsibilities:

• Shipped 2 versions (from nothing, within 8 months) of an innovative solution to enterprise security that addresses a $5 billion share of the enterprise endpoint detection and response market globally.
• Represented our company at angel investor meetings for Series A funding and created presentations containing competitive analysis, revenue projections etc.
• Led a 15 member local and international multi-tier team (principal software engineers for architecting, designing and developing the 1.5 version of our solution a windows & linux agents for monitoring file, registry, process, and network events from within the OS along with cloud infrastructure written in
• PHP/Python and a management portal written in Angular JS.
• Architected and developed the 1.0 version of file system filter driver using the minifilter model along with user mode code written in C# that interacts with the minifilter driver.

Principal Software Engineer & Product manager

Confidential

Technologies used: C++, Win32, DDK, USB drivers, WPF, Javascript with EXT-JS framework.

Responsibilities:

• Initiated & managed the roadmap of 2 products and defined business/technical requirements.
• Hired and led a team of 10 firmware, software & QA engineers to convert these requirements into proprietary hardware and software for a game developer's bridge for Wii U.
• Architected & developed the game developer's bridge which consisted of a desktop application and a
• Win 7 USB driver that serves a proprietary SDIO-USB protocol to connect a PC to a game console for game development.
• Improved product revenue by 10% by managing the USB HDD support project for Wii U by coordinating with stake holders in internal development, licensing, and legal teams and external OEMs/Partners.
• Improved company's perception by recruiting and developing a 10 person team for a desktop product and an admin portal for a mysql database that simplifies deployment for all of Nintendo's SDKs and tools for game developers.

Sr. Softwarist

Confidential, Boulder , CO

Technologies used: C++, Win32, COM, ATL, Ajax, Cygwin, Java, GWT, JSONP, XML, RSS, python, perl.

Responsibilities:

• Architected & developed toolbars for IE using ATL & the Google web toolkit using Java for Confidential, a real time web search company based in Boulder, CO.
• Added features to the API of the real time search engine using Java, JSONP, XML, HTTP.

Vice President

Confidential

Technologies used: C++, Win32, Bloomberg.

Responsibilities:

• Set up a fully functional office for the fund in India in September 2008.
• Ensured a 5% positive return on the Confidential -II portfolio, navigated through troubled times in 2008-2009 and helped manage Confidential -I ($40 mn AUM) with the founder of the Tenex India Fund.
• Led a vendor team to create a new secure, investor specific website for the fund which uses a SQL backend and HTML-Javascript for the front end.
• Responsible for setting up of the IT backend for the fund.
• Analyzed balance sheets, traveled across the country to meet senior management officials of top companies in India, and networked with top fund managers in India as part of analyzing business prospects and providing investment research reports.

Dev Lead -System Software Group & Product Marketing Manager

Confidential, Redmond, wa

Technologies used: C, C++, C#, DDK, Win32, ActiveX/COM, Windows Vista, SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Developed responses to RFIs, worked on MRDs to position the product in the unified communications and VTC industries and was the primary interface between engineering and marketing departments.
• Led a team of senior engineers to enhance the capabilities of a secure audio and video conferencing product for large scale enterprises by implementing features such as XMPP interoperability and optimizing CPU and bandwidth consumption.
• Improved the audio quality of the Via3 product by 50% by designing and developing a low latency audio subsystem using windows kernel streaming.
• Designed & developed a pseudo file system for the Via3 messenger client using a windows file system device driver.

Executive Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Turned a loss making organization around by generating a net profit of over $50,000 for 2 successive years and built a strong, sustainable, entrepreneurial organization by leveraging leadership, marketing and business development skills, building vital partnerships and marketing TiE to thought leaders in various industries.

CEO

Confidential

Technologies used: C++, DDK, win32, windows XP, WinCE, TCP/IP, CppUnit, C#, C++, DDK, win32 Confidential

Responsibilities:

• It also helps software companies outsource projects to quality conscious ISVs around the globe.
• It achieved the following goals:.
• Provided ISVs with visibility in key groups in Microsoft.
• Provided ISVs around the globe with multiple opportunities to do business with local companies in the
• Seattle Metro area.
• The organization generated a profit in the very first year.
• Designed & developed an NDIS intermediate driver at Coco Communications that runs on Windows XP
• & Windows CE for a mesh network protocol that allows peer-peer communication amongst mobile devices.
• Ported the network protocol source code from Linux to windows XP.
• Designed and developed a service built using ATL, C++, C# at Microsoft that controls a proprietary LED display on Windows Vista with a kernel mode driver built using Windows Driver Framework.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Kirkland, WA

Technologies used: C, C++, win32, WinCE, Dos, windows XP, TCP/IP.

Responsibilities:

• Primary Windows CE developer) Developer of wireless platform for LANs).
• Built WinCE and DOS client software for various handheld embedded devices.
• Built management software on Windows 2000 PC for Cisco IOS 802.11B wireless access points.