Make it Happen

Scaling Census to all Google: At Google, I was the impetus for maturing Census​ from an under-documented and hard to understand disjoint set of libraries and code into a well described and cohesive product that is now enabled in every production job at Google & also received the Google Tech Infrastructure award for the same.

Removing Spinning Disk from all data centers: At Google TI, Diskless: the project was treading water. Turned the tide from "stuck in neutral" to success for this effort. The 1/2B$ project was so broad in scope that it required coordination from teams across the entire company. 

Going Regional: I was the program lead to launch Google first cloud region in South Carolina

Cloud-based GIS: At ESRI, I was asked to integrate a fragmented suite of products via an install page. But what I delivered was a Cloud-based GIS effort for ArcGIS that impacted ESRI’s future.

AI Startup: At my startup, when faced with the problem “Can X-Ray Screen for Osteoporosis? Or Covid?”, I wrote web-based app where users can detect osteoporosis by uploading simple X-Ray images. I ran startup for 2+ years, published the validated AI model in leading radiology journal + got 180$K from Google to support the firm. This experience equipped me with more lean skills (both financially and process wise) by building what customers want by using 90-10 solutions, managing small teams,integrating payment solutions and at times to do things that don’t scale initially. 

Founder UserGroup: In Bay Area, there was no place for Java developers to share information. I founded the 1000+ Mountain View Java Users group. The premier JUG was not only a learning hub, but became an incubation for startups, contributed to the Java community process, and attracted top talent across the country.

Disruptive Tech: At Informix,  ​I developed a prototype of "Open Agent" technology that enabled applets running in a Netscape browser to communicate with an Informix New Era Application Server (C++) using agent messaging library to co-exist with Informix libraries. In those days when we had no Java-RMI like remoting technology, this was a breakthrough advancement and showcased at the Informix Worldwide Conference Keynote in Chicago.

Innovation: While at NASA,  I developed the first process improvement tool "WISE" -- Web Integrated Software Environment -- and launched to public domain. Later presented work at the IEEE conference of Enabling Technologies, Stanford Univ. The tool was was widely adopted - over 20+ alpha customers (CNET, CERN, Lawrence Livermore Lab etc..).

K8s: Today I lead the global diverse TPM org (11 TPMs)  for Tanzu Kubernetes (K8s) Platform supporting a 350+ strong engineering team and  programs that enable customers to build, run, manage their new apps on multi-cloud (vSphere or AWS, Azure, GCP) K8 cluster and life cycle manage the same. During all these efforts, I have scaled, energized, and coached my teams while continuously adapting my management styles to a dynamic environment and address complex organizational challenges.

VMware-wide Bureaucracy Busters: I have been instrumental for a pivot in VMware’s culture of how people work cross functionally to build better solutions. This I did by seeding the idea of Bureaucracy Buster with CEO and was the initiative lead for cross-company wide rollout and was able to engage over 10% of the company with no mandate and surfaced over 163 BB items, and worked on bursting top 20.

Communication: Finally, communication has been the epitome of my career be it right from managing the editorial for Oracle Magazine, managing 2M+ developer community at Oracle, or negotiating new standards such as ESI-edge side with Oracle/Akamai  to running conferences with platinum level sponsorships such JavaOne, or being the key technology evangelist for Oracle and Java, TopLink.