Professional Summary
Senior Solutions Engineer with 16+ years in application security, cloud networking, and presales leadership. Expert in architecting enterprise-grade solutions, driving technical strategy, and influencing C-suite outcomes across large accounts. Proven track record across Cloudflare, F5, Akamai, Infoblox, and Radware in solving complex customer challenges, leading POCs, and enabling market expansion.
Experience
Senior Solutions Engineer — Cloudflare
- Architect secure, scalable solutions by mapping customer initiatives to modern Cloudflare architectures.
- Drive technical strategy with engineering leaders and C-suite stakeholders.
- Lead demos, deep-dives, and POCs end-to-end to accelerate adoption.
- Represent Cloudflare at industry and cybersecurity events as a technical evangelist.
Solutions Engineer II – South — F5 Networks
- Delivered technical leadership across solution designs, demos, and POCs.
- Architected advanced F5 configurations enabling new services and solving complex issues.
- Positioned F5 competitively with differentiated architectures and CXO-level value messaging.
- Presented whiteboards and technical strategy to senior decision-makers.
Presales Systems Engineer – South — Infoblox
- Drove technical differentiation in sales cycles by educating customers and partners on Infoblox’s core DDI and security solutions.
- Created high-quality presales content—including presentations, demos, and webinars—to accelerate solution adoption.
- Designed end-to-end architectures illustrating how Infoblox integrates with broader enterprise security and networking ecosystems.
- Enabled partner technical teams with training and guidance to identify opportunities and effectively position Infoblox solutions.
SOCC Specialist – Senior — Akamai Technologies
- Protected global customers against DDoS and web attacks using Prolexic and KONA WAF within Akamai GSOC.
- Served as global Product Line Expert for Bot Manager and SME for Akamai Platform.
- Part of S2ET, the senior escalation layer for complex security incidents across Akamai services.
- Delivered real-time attack support—analysing patterns, identifying signatures, and crafting mitigation policies.
- Performed proactive and reactive threat analysis to reduce false positives, enhance WAF accuracy, and shrink attack surfaces.
Technical Consultant — M.TECH
- Acted as an extended arm to Arbor Networks with their implementation, support, PoCs, demos, and presentations.
Technical Head - West — Radware
- Managed a team of System Engineers – West, and distributor resources.
- Owned and delivered complete Pre-sales activities for Radware in west India.
- Delivered presentations, demos, design and PoCs of Radware solution and handled critical customer escalation.
Field Engineer (Emerging Technologies) — Wipro InfoTech
- Troubleshot and implemented Load balancers, Proxy Servers, e-Mail Security gateway, IPS/IDS, SSL VPN Gateways, Application Firewall, QOS devices & WAN Optimization devices.
Core Skills
WAF & DDoS Mitigation
Zero Trust Architecture
CDN & Edge Performance
Programmable Edge
DDI (DNS/DHCP/IPAM)
SOC Operations
Application Defense
APM & Diagnostics
Network Troubleshooting
Education
BS — Information Systems
BSc — Information Technology
Diploma in Information Technology
Certifications
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Associate
- Radware IAS Engineer
- F5 Product Consultant – LTM
- Citrix Certified Administrator for Netscaler 9.2