Shiraz S.
Director of Product Development
- Role
- Director of Product Development, Big-iq Cloud at F5
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shiraz S.
Strong track record of designing, developing, and operating resilient distributed systems and services and recruiting, developing, and retaining talents to professional and personal growth. Proven ability of defining product strategy, technology road maps and full life-cycle implementation to deliver business impact, drive changes, and promote engineering excellence practices in a dynamic organization. 20+ years of industrial R&D and management experience in applied machine learning across systems and services, in the fields of financial origination and servicing platforms, fraud prevention, cloud infrastructure, search engine ranking and monetization, online advertising, cross platform development, handwriting recognition, and personalization.Specialties: Machine Learning, Financial Technologies, Cloud Infrastructure, Web Ranking, Internet Search Advertising, Paid Search Monetization, Tablet PC, Handwriting Recognition, People Management, Project Management, Technology Leadership
Experience
Director of Product Development, Big-iq Cloud
Jan 2015 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Managed cross location product and engineering teams to successfully create a new product line. iWorkflow orchestrates and manages multi-tenant and multi-cloud (Azure, AWS, OpenStack) deployment of application delivery services. It delivers secure, elastic, and available applications whether they are in public, private, or hybrid cloud.• Shipped six agile releases of the product line to meet customer/partner demands including groundbreaking features such as extensible BIG-IP on-boarding workflows (provisioning, configuration, and management), Service Catalog (discovery and cataloging of application/service templates for cloud providers and cloud tenants), Multi-Tenancy, and support for all BIG-IP Form Factors. • Incubated application elasticity interfaces to orchestrate the provisioning of compute resources on demand for a deployed application.• Drove engineering excellence practices that significantly improved engineering efficiency and shipping agility, significantly reducing the time to market. Transformed the team from a recently formed one, working on small partial projects, to owning significant technology bets for the company. Improved the technical capability, execution, and leadership of the team.• Managed technical partnerships with Public Cloud and SDN companies including Cisco, VMware, Amazon, and Microsoft. Conducted Senior Leadership level product road maps and reviews.
Education
University of Washington
M.B.A., Technology Management
University of Notre Dame
B.S. cum laude, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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