Vijay Dsouza

About Vijay Dsouza

Senior leader growing Enterprise and Service Provider businesses for 20+ years. Adept at driving engineering strategies aligned with business needs and building teams to deliver Security, Storage, Policy Management, Application & Network traffic engineering WAN solutions.• People and technical leader driven by ownership, a bias for action and results• Passionate about organizational development rooted in empathy• Business and organizational growth with strategic planning expertise for new and existing solutions• Cross functional leader with effective communication and negotiation skills while creating a safe space for innovation• Execution using practical Agile (automation, CI/CD, TDD) and waterfall practicesINTERESTS - Security, Analytics, IoT, SD-WAN, StorageACCOMPLISHMENTS• YOY increase in employee engagement by driving organizational alignment with accelerated business value achievement• Grew annual revenue to ~$100M, establishing F5\'s Advanced Firewall Manager as the network security solution for F5\'s 5G and Cloud offerings with support across edge and multi-tenant next generation platforms• Doubled F5’s Context Aware Policy Enforcement revenue for Service Providers via a product strategy revamp• Drove F5’s IPsec Security Gateway solution with a $3M win by leading an aggressive campaign across geographically distributed teams with weekly customer engagements• Led the engineering delivery of a $10M+ customer win for Ciena\'s highly available MPLS L2VPN solution• Software Release Management of high quality, predictable releases for ~100 geographically distributed contributors• Patent: 80% improvement in multi-node software image download performance with a simulcast download mechanismTECHNICAL BACKGROUND• Software & Solutions architecture - Highly available distributed systems• AWS, IaaS, Security and WAN Solutions, Networking, Switching & Routing• Firewall, Policy Management, IPS, DDoS, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Application/URL/Video Classification, Traffic Visibility• TCP/IP, IPsec, MPLS, Congestion Management, L2 Protocols, Broadcom, EZchip, SmartNIC• Network Function Virtualization (NFV), SDN, Service Function Chaining (SFC), Containers, Dockers, Kubernetes, Redis, ProtoBuf, Jira, Jenkins

Experience

1. Director, Engineering

   Netskope

   May 2022 — Present

Education

• University of Mumbai

  B.S., Electronics and Telecommunications

• University of Southern California

  M.S., Electrical Engineering

Skills

• Mpls
• Embedded Software
• Udp
• Data Management
• C
• Real Estate Investment Strategies
• Release Management
• Redundant Systems
• Sdn
• Snmp
• Ethernet
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• High Availability
• Nfv
• Distributed Systems
• Tcp/Ip
• Oam
• Telecommunications
• Embedded Systems
• Memory Management
• Risk Management
• Netconf
• Bfd
• Data Modeling
• Architecture
• Carrier Ethernet
• Strategy
• Routing Protocols
• Talent Management