Pavan Kumar

About Pavan Kumar

I am a with over 22 years of experience spanning cloud engineering, product development, and transformative leadership.In my most recent role, I led the, owning the - while overseeing Development, QA, DevOps, SRE, and Customer Success—delivering a seamless.My expertise includes defining engineering roadmaps, leading large-scale cloud migrations for global teams, integrating into products, and driving engineering excellence that directly fuels topline growth.My core strengths include challenging the status-quo, taking intelligent risks, a passion for lean engineering, proactively shaping culture, and an empowering leadership style that fosters ownership and growth.A defining milestone in my career was the establishment of an —from hiring and building delivery capabilities to developing channel partnerships and achieving full-scale delivery for the Greater China region.I’m now ready to bring my rare blend of technical excellence, sharp business insights, and a global leadership style to drive innovation, agility, and lasting business impact.

Experience

1. Leader, Software Engineering Cloud & Network Security

   Cisco

   Jan 2016 — Present

   Steer strategic global initiative across NextGen Firewall Management solutions, transforming enterprise class product to cloud, hired, built teams, re-engineer product to improve quality, reliability and scale by 3x, operate globally to improve operational efficiency by 30%. Challenge the status quo to re-architecture resulting in improvement in NextGen Firewall performance by 30%. Enabled a self serve engineering culture to improve organization efficiency by 20% across network security portfolio products Zero-Trust (ZTNA), IPS, Threat Detection etc. Integrated AI/ML, Data Science into product boosting product efficacy, usage insights to make critical data driven decisions maximizing RoI.

Education

• Gulbarga University

  B.E, Computer Science