Ashish Chirputkar

Own Vision-Strategy-Execution for a wide portfolio of Cloud – SaaS Platform, Applications, User Experience, Orchestration of Virtual SaaS Services, SDN Controllers, Machine Learning, Analytics • Delivered world class Cloud - SaaS Platform & Applications powering the largest customers worldwide with software revenues of $35M+ and $100M indirect • Drove high profile customer insertions e.g. - 5G Services rollout within the US, largest virtualized services within Japan, brand new services cloud in China, Turkey and Argentina • Launched a high performance, secure Cloud-SaaS Platform for high velocity service & application deployment and delivery. Launched 5 Applications in 12 months with several in pipeline • Launched brand new User Experiences using new UI frameworks based on Material, Angular JS etc - spanning ordering, catalogs, search, provisioning, recommendations, analytics, dashboards • Brought innovative applications using machine learning, big data analytics, telemetry, intent driven policy, SSO, Role based control, SDN Services • Developed a Kubernetes / Docker based deployment orchestration engine that reduced deployment and service readiness time to couple hours from weeks - significantly accelerating deployments and surpassing target goal of fortune 500 customers within first 15 months • Built a global product team with 200+ engineers - US/Canada, Europe, India • Achieved High Velocity Agile Development - disciplined backlog grooming, sprint planning, continuous deliveries, sophisticated CI/CD automation pipeline / cloud staging, Scale, Performance • Developed benchmarks for cloud native application / platform architectures catered to performance, scale, UI design flows, security, HA, data stores • Led contribution on Open Source ODL Open Daylight SDN controller with Linux Foundation Technologies - Java, C++, Material, Bootstrap, Angular JS, API Gateway, Nginx, Kubernetes, Docker, Message bus, Cassandra, Redis, OpenStack, CollectD, Logstash, Git, Gerrit

Owned direct Development & Execution responsibility for the broad Webex Social Collaboration SaaS Platform, Mobile / Web Applications delivering Collaboration, Enterprise Search, Video/Voice -- part of the largest SaaS Enterprise business in the world - Delivered the industry leading Webex Social Collaboration SaaS Platform, Mobile, Web Applications, User Experience at scale - millions of users worldwide & revenues > $800M - Launched new Web and Mobile IOS / Android Applications with blazing fast page load performance, superior visual experience/transitions resulting in huge customer satisfaction, loyalty. Mobile app usage increased by 35% y/y - Improved worldwide page load, visual rendering performance by 40% to within 1-2 seconds. - Delivered a comprehensive SaaS platform • Activity streams, Watchlists, File/Content Sharing, Ratings, Likes, Microblogs, Search faceting, Reputation, Meetings • Innovations - Chatbots, Semantic Enablement, Social Graph • Big data Analytics e.g. Top Contributor, Top Content, Recommendations, Machine Learning • Immersive communication tools - Voice, Video, IM - Awarded several key USPTO patents - Introduced comprehensive Search capabilities - filtering, faceting, relevancy, chronology across multiple data stores and content types – documents, messages, video, voice - World class Data Center Operations - DevOps, full Synthetic monitoring, performance thresholds, alerts, security / penetration monitoring, redundancy, replication - Built competitive advantage with state of art CI/CD pipeline, Daily releases, Automated deployments - Drove massive agile transformation across multiple functions – Product Mgmt, UX, Engineering, Svcs - Built architecture teams to develop high performance grounds up using variety of techniques and tools – Charles Proxy, YSlow, CDN, Caching, Static assets - Technologies – Java, C++, LAMP, Mongo DB, SOLR, Oracle, Hadoop, XMPP, OAuth, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, Nginx, Memcache, Plugins

Owned execution and launched new products within the Collaboration Technology Group – Customer Voice Portal IVR, VXML Gateway, Web Services Framework, Operations Portal - Developed and Launched new products such as Customer Voice Portal (CVP), Voice XML (VXML) Gateway with Speech Recognition / TTS driving revenues of $20M in first 18 months. Products included a visual workflow engine, highly concurrent platform, H.323, SIP protocols, ASR, TTS - Launched Web Services API Gateway for Cisco’s entire voice collaboration portfolio helping create APIs, SDKs and a robust ecosystem of services, developers, partners, customers - Built a global team of 40+ engineers and architects - Technologies – Java, J2EE, Jersey, COMET, Spring, Struts, Active MQ, JMX, VXML, REST, SOAP, Dojo

Cofounded and owned execution for 2 new product lines – IP Contact Center IPCC Express, IP IVR Application with Speech Recognition, TTS – Products are Top 2 worldwide market share leaders with revenues > $100M - Built and launched the industries earliest IP based Contact Center and IVR product lines driving Cisco’s segway into this market with revenues > $100M annually - Extended customer segment coverage to the entire SMB market with scale over 300 agents - Introduced several innovative capabilities that were an industry first at the time – skill based routing, expert advisor, speech recognition (ASR), TTS, highly customizable workflows etc. - Architected, designed and implemented core infrastructure components that are engineered for high call volume performance and code exercised with every call flow through the system - System is able to handle millions of requests per day. System was in use on tax day at IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and continues to be in service - Devised a performance characterization matrix that allowed the field to self scale the deployment without complex manual intervention

Architect and advisory engineer for Enterprise VoIP development group at Siemens ICN (ROLM), a division of Siemens Enterprise Communications.

Software Architect at Kodak's Washington DC Development Center (WDC).

Worked as Project Specialist at GE Logisticom, a GE Capital subsidiary.

Software engineer working on Siemens public switching systems. Developed administration, configuration software, SNMP monitoring, call history etc.