Shruthi Muralidhara

About Shruthi Muralidhara

I am a technology leader with 12+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, specializing in networking, servers, storage, and data center solutions. My expertise spans LAN, WAN, WLAN, DNAC, ACI, Nexus, and cloud‑enabled architectures, with a proven track record of delivering scalable, secure, and business‑aligned solutions.Currently working as a Technology Product Manager, I drive product strategy, roadmap execution, and lifecycle management, ensuring technical depth is aligned with business priorities. I excel in vendor and budget management, stakeholder collaboration, and data‑driven decision making, leveraging tools such as Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Splunk, and SolarWinds.I hold certifications in Cisco CCNA/CCNP, AWS Cloud Practitioner, ITIL, Scrum Product Owner, and SolarWinds Professional, which reinforce my ability to bridge the gap between technical engineering and product leadership. My career journey includes impactful roles at John Deere, Eaton, Symantec, Wells Fargo, and Vodafone, where I have consistently delivered enterprise infrastructure solutions and upheld global IT standards.Beyond technology, I am recognized for my excellent communication, consulting skills, and technical storytelling. I thrive as a team player with a positive attitude, engaging customers with optimal solutions, mentoring teams, and driving cross‑functional collaboration. My strengths in presentation and interpersonal skills help me connect technical strategy with business outcomes, ensuring value delivery at scale.

Experience

1. Product Manager Core Infrastructure

   John Deere

   Oct 2023 — Present · Pune, IN

   Deep understanding of customer product needs and what technology-based capabilities are required to meet those needs. • Maintains and prioritizes the product backlog to ensure that the team is working on features that maximize business value and deliver necessary functionality to their customers. • Is responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle, from concept to decommission. • Understands technical topics at a conceptual level as well as the systems and data that enable capabilities and drives innovation at a regional level or at Global IT product level. • Vendor Management: Manage relationships with technology vendors and third-party providers to source necessary components and services. • Budget Management: Partner with EM in ensuring the Product Budget is maintained accurately in terms of Forecast and Target. This would also ensure managing/understanding controllable and uncontrollable expense budgets. • Participates in team events (e.g, daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint demos). • Ensures an exceptional product experience collecting inputs from customers, market research while collaborating with UX, architecture and engineering resources. • Understands and supports inter-team dependencies and impediments and escalate issues when necessary. • Ensures features definition, acceptance criteria, and stories clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the team; works with team to clarify as necessary.Makes decisions on product functionality and ensure that functionality is aligned with Digital Infrastructure, strategic vision for the products within product family scope which includes Goals planning, Balanced Scorecard and quarterly OKR\'s

Education

• JSS International School

  10th SSLC

  2005 — 2006

• Vijaya High School

  Pre University College, PCMB

  2006 — 2008

• AMC Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Telecommunications Engineering