Devanjan Sarkar
About Devanjan Sarkar
Hands-on technology leader with focus on developing product vision and strategy, business and engineering alignment, bootstrapping new technology products and scaling teams and organizations. Directed technology strategy, architecture, Platform development and operations for Security SaaS Products, IoT Cloud-to-Edge Platform, AI/ML based SaaS, and Cloud Storage products at large enterprises and start-ups. Built and operated Cloud Ops and SRE with VM and Container Platform Tooling, CI/CD, Observability in GCP, AWS and Azure. • Paloalto Networks – Scaled Infrastructure Engineering to deliver SaaS Infrastructure, DevSecOps in GCP and AWS, SRE, API & Service Mesh, AI offerings, Data and Application Security. • Stratus Technologies – Built Edge platforms, Access Control, digital services for fault tolerance, backup/restore, product security, asset monitoring in Manufacturing, Transportation, Smart Buildings. • Airfusion (acquired by mCloud) – Computer Vision based SaaS offering for Drone Surveillance. • EMC – Led R&D and development for multi-year Software Defined Storage product from 1.0 to 3.0, for Fortune 1000 customers used for multi-billion-dollar Data Center Management. • Cisco – Architected and built enterprise products for Network Security, Identity Management for Wired/Mobile, Unified Communications, IP-Telephony for $1B+ business units. Expertise in Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure platform, Cloud and Network Security, AI/ML SaaS, Data Engineering, Distributed systems, HA& DR, multi-tenancy, IAM, Security Analytics, performance optimization and serviceability. Experience in GCP, Azure, AWS SRE, Operations and incident management. Specialties: Product Vision & Strategy, Roadmap development and execution, Technical leadership, Global Team Building, Agile transformation, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, Start-ups, Hiring and mentoring A-teams, portfolio optimization Cloud and Cloud Native Technologies: - VMWare, Hyper-V, Docker, Kubernetes K8, K3 - Micro Services, REST - MongoDB, Cassandra, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Nginx, Angular, Node.js - Jenkins, Harness, Terraform, Ansible - Chef, Redis, Azure AKS, KeyCloak, MinIo - Block/File/Object Storage, Openstack - DataDog, Elastic Search, Grafana, Splunk AI/ML: CNN, Tensorflow, OpenCV, CUDA, Keres, Python, NVidia Security Technologies: - Zero Trust Network Access - Device Profiling - SASE, CNAPP - Prisma Access, Prisma Cloud, Cortex XSIAM, XSOAR - Cisco ISE - NAC, AAA, Radius UC Technology: Contact Center, CTI, IVR, VXML, H323, SIP, Cisco Call Manager, UCCE, Cisco CVP