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

February 2022 – Present • First SE hired to build and scale Cloudflare’s technical footprint in India.
  • 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

February 2020 – February 2022
  • 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

June 2019 – February 2020
  • 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

August 2017 – June 2019
  • 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

May 2017 to August 2017
  • Acted as an extended arm to Arbor Networks with their implementation, support, PoCs, demos, and presentations.

Technical Head - West — Radware

August 2013 to April 2017
  • 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

December 2009 to August 2013
  • 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

Birla Institute of Technologies and Science

BSc — Information Technology

Kuvempu University

Diploma in Information Technology

Nettur Technical Training Center

Certifications

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Associate
  • Radware IAS Engineer
  • F5 Product Consultant – LTM
  • Citrix Certified Administrator for Netscaler 9.2