Rush Maniar

About Rush Maniar

As a product leader, I\'ve successfully driven the introduction and growth of various enterprise products across Network and Application Infrastructure, Identity Access Management, Private and Public Cloud Orchestration, Software-Defined Networking, Security, and Storage. Recently, my focus has expanded to delivering cutting-edge AI-powered solutions, enhancing automation, customer experience, and operational efficiency. By solving high-value problems with winning solutions, I\'ve driven accelerated revenue growth, solid margins, and led product management teams to explore and establish new business opportunities.SpecializationsExecuting Products to Market: Delivering impactful features that attract, delight, and retain customers.Redefining Existing Products: Growing existing products into adjacent markets with a stronger and more valuable positioning.Building Product Vision: Creating inspiring product visions and grounding them in realistic, yet ambitious, execution plans.Technology/Market StrengthsDigital Transformation, AI and Machine Learning, Generative AI, Application Modernization, Microservices, Containers, DevOps, SRE, Load Balancing, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Distributed Systems, Service Mesh, Orchestration, Automation, Analytics, Application Performance, Identity Access Management, SaaS, Virtualization, APM, NPM, Software-Defined Networking, Security, and Storage (Block, Object, File).

Experience

1. Investor

   London Startup Network

   Dec 2020 — Present

   Invested in Impossible Foods, RobinHood, and few other Stealth startups

Education

• San José State University

  Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (Concentration in Computer Networking)

  2008 — 2010

• Saurashtra University

  Bachelor's degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

  2004 — 2007

Skills

• Cisco Technologies
• Customer Demos
• Chef
• Cloud Applications
• Competitive Analysis
• Business Strategy
• Wan Optimisation
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Linux
• Grid Computing
• Saas
• Containers
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Ip
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Identity Management
• Ldap
• Sales Engineering
• Network Security
• Vcentre
• Tcp/Ip
• Project Management
• Networking
• Sdn
• Qos
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Virtualization
• Sharepoint
• Network Performance Management
• Strategy
• Application Performance Management
• Vmware
• Routing
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• Product Management
• Openstack
• Wireshark
• Switching