Ashish Chirputkar

About Ashish Chirputkar

20+ years of strategic experience delivering successful products to market - World class SaaS Offerings, Cloud Platforms, Web and Mobile Applications, User experiences - driving multi-million-dollar business and millions of users - WebEx Social Team Collaboration (WebEx Cloud), Video, Voice, Speech To Text (ASR), Enterprise Search, Analytics, Machine Learning, Customer IVR Workflow Engine, Virtual Managed SaaS, Cloud Orchestration Platform, SDN, NFV Cofounded - Cisco WebEx Social SaaS Collaboration suite - part of the largest SaaS Enterprise business worldwide with millions of users Global SaaS Platform with latest Web and Mobile IOS / Android Applications - delivering Collaboration, Enterprise Search, Voice, Video, Instant Messaging, Secure Content Creation / Sharing, Open APIs, Security, Recommendation Engine- Cisco Contact Center / IVR w/ speech recognition and TTS product lines – Top 2 World wide market share with >$100M run rate. Multi-million dollar business with direct responsibility for Cisco SDN Cloud Platform, Multiple SaaS offerings, Visualization, Service and Customer Provisioning, Orchestration, Machine Learning, Automation and Analytics softwareBuilt world-class teams in dynamic agile development environmentsEngineering degree with MBA from UC Berkeley (Haas)• World class execution - completely Agile Development + full DevOps - Daily releases, Continuous deployment, Automation, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Security• First hand experience with High Traffic, Scalable web/mobile Applications, SaaS/PaaS, Site Reliability, High Performance, Distributed, Web Architectures and Enterprise Software • Deliver products end to end - full Web UI/UX, Mobile Apps, Open APIs, Data model, Platform, Content, Integrations• Industry Open Source initiatives - Open Daylight ODLCloud-SaaS I Cloud Compute | SDN-NFV | Data Center | AWS I Agile DevOps Development | Enterprise Collaboration | WebEx Social | Mobile Apps | VoIP | Machine Learning

Experience

1. Head of Engineering, Sr Director, Cloud - Saas Platform, Applications, Virtual Services, Analytics

   Cisco

   Oct 2013 — Present

   Own Vision-Strategy-Execution for a wide portfolio of Cloud – SaaS Platform, Applications, User Experience, Orchestration of Virtual SaaS Services, SDN Controllers, Machine Learning, Analytics• Delivered world class Cloud - SaaS Platform & Applications powering the largest customers worldwide with software revenues of $35M+ and $100M indirect• Drove high profile customer insertions e.g- 5G Services rollout within the US, largest virtualized services within Japan, brand new services cloud in China, Turkey and Argentina• Launched a high performance, secure Cloud-SaaS Platform for high velocity service & application deployment and delivery. Launched 5 Applications in 12 months with several in pipeline• Launched brand new User Experiences using new UI frameworks based on Material, Angular JS etc - spanning ordering, catalogs, search, provisioning, recommendations, analytics, dashboards• Brought innovative applications using machine learning, big data analytics, telemetry, intent driven policy, SSO, Role based control, SDN Services• Developed a Kubernetes / Docker based deployment orchestration engine that reduced deployment and service readiness time to couple hours from weeks - significantly accelerating deployments and surpassing target goal of fortune 500 customers within first 15 months• Built a global product team with 200+ engineers - US/Canada, Europe, India• Achieved High Velocity Agile Development - disciplined backlog grooming, sprint planning, continuous deliveries, sophisticated CI/CD automation pipeline / cloud staging, Scale, Performance• Developed benchmarks for cloud native application / platform architectures catered to performance, scale, UI design flows, security, HA, data stores• Led contribution on Open Source ODL Open Daylight SDN controller with Linux FoundationTechnologies - Java, C++, Material, Bootstrap, Angular JS, API Gateway, Nginx, Kubernetes, Docker, Message bus, Cassandra, Redis, OpenStack, CollectD, Logstash, Git, Gerrit

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Product Management, Strategy

  2001 — 2004

• Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

  Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Spring
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Voip
• Distributed Systems
• Data Center
• Mobile Devices
• Java
• Cisco Systems Products
• Saas
• Integration
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Mobile Applications
• Hadoop
• Product Management
• Rest
• Scalability
• Sdlc
• Cloud Computing
• Big Data
• Architecture
• Web Applications
• Mongodb
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Unified Communications
• Cisco Technologies
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Software as a Service (Saas)