Rahul Ramachandran
Principal Product Manager - Cloud and Network Security
Employed
Available
Experiences
Senior Product Line Manager
Juniper Networks
Since January 2019
Sunnyvale
United States
- Manage a high volume enterprise security product portfolio and solutions (SRX Series) with over 20K customers.
- Develop strategies, product vision and roadmap for SaaS-based WAN analytics and assurance solution, network security offering and SD-WAN.
- Launch multiple products/solutions reaching more than 1000 customers with active deployments.
- Evangelize product vision, roadmap with executive management and key stakeholders from across organization (UI/UX, Engineering, Product Marketing and others) to design and shape features, products and solutions.
- Shepherd products from its inception to customer sales and deployment along with driving product positioning, messaging and managing go-to-market (GTM) activities.
- Drive business and investment strategies based on extensive market research and data-driven financial analysis.
- Spearhead implementation of critical features driving business growth including, SaaS app management, AppQoE (Quality of Experience), WAN Assurance (AI/ML based WAN/App analytics, SLA and SaaS management) and many others.
- Work closely with large customers and partners to identify key use-cases and requirements.
Technical Marketing Engineer Staff
Juniper Networks
November 2015
to December 2018
Sunnyvale
United States
- Sales enablement activities focused on network security products and solutions including SRX, vSRX and related security technologies.
- Prepared demos, configuration guides and reference architecture new products, features and solutions.
- Provided subject matter expertise in Secure SD-WAN connectivity, NGFW and Universal CPE.
- Lead technical evangelist for virtual firewall and private/public (AWS and Azure) cloud deployments.
- Engaged in technical customer meetings, including detailed product overview/demos, and in-depth technical conversations.
- Engaged in GTM activities including design of marketing materials for new products and solutions.
- Developed and conducted technical field training and solutions deep dive for sales team, partners and targeted customers.
- Performed business and technical competitive analysis including Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and others.
- Worked with engineering to design, implement and improve features and solutions.
Test Engineer
Juniper Networks
September 2013
to November 2015
Sunnyvale
United States
- Designed and executed customer profile use-cases and test plans.
- Tested end-to-end firewall features and services such as Polices, NAT, AppSecure, UTM, IDP, IPsec VPN, HA of Juniper SRX Firewalls.
- Performed firewall capability testing in a simulated environment using 3rd party tools, viz. Breaking Point, Ixia - IxExplorer/IxLoad and Spirent.
- Designed complex automation test infrastructure for the team and writing automation scripts in Perl for performing test execution.
- Mentored interns and new hires by providing training and guidance.
MSS Security Engineer
Symantec Corp
June 2013
to September 2013
Herndon
United States
- Provided technical support to customers to monitor and manage their network security devices.
- Provided on-demand support to customers by live troubleshooting and resolving network issues.
Engineering Intern
Affirmed Networks
June 2012
to December 2012
Internship
Boston
United States
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
June 2008
to August 2011
Chennai
India
Skills
Cloud Security
- Public Cloud - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure
- Security-as-a-Serice (SaaS) and Managed Security Solutions
- SASE and ZTNA (Zero-trust) architecture
- Virtualization - VMware ESXi, KVM
- SAML, Oauth2.0 & OpenID connect framework
Network Security
- Secure SD-WAN & Enterprise Connectivity
- Application Security - Identification, Firewalling, App Quality of Service
- UTM - Web Filtering, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam
- NAT
- Intrusion Prevention (IPS)
- Virtual Private Networks - IPSec
- Firewall Policing/Filter/Authentication
- UCPE Security Infra
Certification
- JNCIS-SEC
- JNCIA Junos
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv9)
- CCNA
- CCNP - Route/Switch
- Pragmatic Marketing Certified - PMC-III
Scripting Languages
- Ansible, Perl, Python
Network Test Tools
- Breaking Point Solution
- IXIA - IxExplorer, IxLoad
- Spirent - Test Center, Avalanche
- Open Source - Ostinato, Scapy, Wireshark, TCPreplay
Operating System
- Windows (PC & Server)
- Linux - Debian (Ubuntu), Red Hat (RHEL, CentOS)
- Junos OS
Tools
- Advanced in Microsoft Office - Word, Powerpoint & Excel
- Experienced in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
- Advanced in screen capture and video editing tools - Camtasia, Snagit
Education
Product Management Certificate
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
2018
Master of Science in Networking and System Administration
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
September 2011
to May 2013
Research Assistant, Mobile Anti-Spyware Analysis
• Research on Security aspects of various Anti-Malwares on the Android Operating System.
• Analyzing the operating functionalities of Malware and Anti-Malware applications.
• Research on Security aspects of various Anti-Malwares on the Android Operating System.
• Analyzing the operating functionalities of Malware and Anti-Malware applications.
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication
Anna University
September 2004
to May 2008
Interests
Arts
- Landscape, Urban and Portrait Photography
- https://rahultn.wixsite.com/rahulr-photography/