Gopikrishna Kannan
Head of products - Azure Firewall and Firewall Manager
- Role
- Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gopikrishna Kannan
Technical Program Manager with expertise in Kernel, windows mobile and Data-center Networking
Experience
Principal Program Manager
Jan 2020 — Present · Redmond, US
Head of products responsible for driving product growth, adoption and revenues.~~ Grew product revenues and adoption by 10x. Consistently met or exceeded revenue projections.~~ Managing a team of talented product managers across multiple geographies.~~ Building and executing on the roadmap working with engineering, business and marketing across multiple geos.~~ Drove multiple key initiatives including Azure Firewall Premium SKU for payment/compliance industries, Basic SKU targeting SMBs, Policy analytics for operational management, strategic partnerships (example: Illumio).~~ Central interface for all major/strategic customer escalations and roadmap discussions on Azure Firewall & firewall manager. Handled several hundred escalations, confidence calls and roadmap sessions.~~ Technically strong PM driving both technical and business. Go to person for engineering, field, finance and leadership on Azure Firewall.
Education
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
PGSEM, Management
2005 — 2008
Walchand institute of technology
B.E, Computer science & engineering
1993 — 1997
Skills
- Agile Methodologies
- Program Management
- Software Project Management
- Software Development
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
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