P. Narayan

About P. Narayan

I build high-performance organizations that power the world’s most scalable and demanding digital experiences. With a leadership pedigree spanning Apple, Yahoo, and Bell Labs, I specialize in scaling engineering teams from 10s to across global locations (US, Europe, Asia) while managing $1B+ technical roadmaps.As a holder of 15+ patents and a champion of \"Technical Mastery\" in leaders, I bridge the gap between deep-tech architectural excellence and C-suite business strategy. My focus is on driving operational excellence and efficiency at the 1B+ user scale, mentoring the next generation of technical leaders - Directors/Sr. Dir/Fellows, and delivering the innovation required to maintain market leadership in AI, Cloud Infrastructure, and Distributed Systems.

Experience

1. Sr Director of Engineering Virtualized Infrastructure & Service Delivery - Apple Services Eng

   Apple

   Sep 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   I lead the team responsible for building and running *all* of Apple\'s infrastructure services including Compute, Storage, Orchestration, and Fleet Management. Additionally, my team is also responsible for running and operating our Media products including App Store, Music, TV/Sports, Podcasts, Books etc. For infrastructure, deployment, capacity management, security, operations, support, and quality of service for the coolest and BIGGEST services business on the planet.We are a team of more than engineers across 15 locations around the world. We are actively hiring engineering candidates at all levels across the group located at Cupertino, Seattle, San Diego, Austin, Cork, London, Bengaluru, and Singapore. We are also looking to attract strong leaders/managers, who can help us build a vision and execute on taking Apple Services to the next level of operating ease, efficiency, quality for UX and using AIML for automation in running and managing the infrastructure.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP), Certificate Program

  2012 — 2012

• University of Mumbai

  B.S., Computer Science and Engineering

  1988 — 1992

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  M.S., Computer Science

  1995 — 1997

Skills

• Cloud Computing
• Distributed Systems
• Organizational Leadership
• Nosql
• Low Latency
• Large Scale Systems
• Software Development
• Mentoring
• Technical Presentations
• Customer Presentations
• Product Vision
• System Architecture
• Service Operations
• Managed Services
• Saas
• Paas
• Capacity Management
• Technical Leadership
• Storage
• Architecture
• Scalability
• Agile
• Mobile
• High Availability
• Web Services
• Linux
• Software Engineering
• Rest
• Java
• Algorithms
• Unix
• C++
• C
• Computer Science
• Scrum
• Agile Project Management
• Software Design
• Software Project Management
• Object Oriented Design
• Continuous Integration