Anand Deshpande

About Anand Deshpande

Experienced result-driven leader specializing in Security, DevOps, Networking and Cloud technology, including AI Agents Security, Advanced Threat Protection, UTM, IDP/IPS, Web firewall, Hybrid cloud, NFV and SDN with 20+ years of experience in startups as well as large organizationsCore Competencies:Executive Leader Security DevOps Leadership Security and Networking lead architect Partner/Customer relationship development

Experience

1. Senior Director of Software Engineering

   Salesforce

   Jun 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Lead Infrastructure Security team\'s strategy, architecture and deployment of AgentForce security* Lead all Network Security and L7 WAF/DDoS Development and Ops teams in Americas and EMEA* Lead development of Public and Private cloud NetSec and Security Compliance infrastructure and platform services for Salesforce including key Network Segmentation, Configuration Drift Detection and Auto-remediation, WAF, IP Killswitch, IP/URL reputation monitoring, IP publishing, DDoS protection, NLP based chatbot, Compliance, Automation and Ops functionality* Engineering delivery lead for key cross Salesforce Security initiatives around Developer experience, Automation, Scalability and Networking* Lead Ops teams providing Network Security (NextGen Firewalls, DDoS protection, Network Segmentation) for all North-South and East-West traffic into and across Salesforce\'s public and private Cloud infrastructure* Innovation driver, with NetSec team being #1 Scrum team in filing patents across all of Salesforce* Led multiple LRP and hackathon cycles, with teams delivering key Security, AI and Automation projects* Drove multiple CTS initiatives that led to annual savings of $5M+

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  M.S., Computer Science

  1998 — 2000

• National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• C
• Juniper Technologies
• Ips
• Cloud Security
• Url Filtering
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Qos
• Snmp
• Ethernet
• Scalability
• Computer Security
• Network Architecture
• Routing
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Idp
• Unix
• Ip
• Ipv6
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization
• Quality of Service (Qos)
• Network Security
• Routing Protocols
• Ssl
• Web Application Firewall
• Multithreaded Application Development
• High Availability
• Antivirus
• Perl
• Unified Threat Management
• Embedded Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Security
• Ospf
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)