Anuradha Vedulla
Summary
A seasoned Technical Program & Product Management leader with 15+ years experience in the networking and cloud industry, delivering large-scale and NPI programs by cross-functional engagements with vendors, customers, engineering, legal, procurement, product, UI/UX, and ML teams. Proven history of driving efficiency improvements and cost reductions. Expertise in driving Infrastructure hardware products (Compute, Storage, Networking, Machine learning ) from concept to mass production. Developed software solutions to deploy and manage infrastructure hardware in Data Center and support entire life cycle of the fleet.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Technical Program Manager
Cisco Systems
01.2024 - Current
- Managing large scale cross-functional open source SONIC software releases based on Cisco 8000 product NPI's involving Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, HW and SW Engineering teams. Leading E2E program management, scope, schedule, milestones, budget, risk management, dependencies, environment, change, release and and delivery management.
- Revamped incoming component quality and helped reducing validation risks by covering process variables. Assures compliance in quality, risk management, process improvement quality, in accordance with PRQ requirements before samples reach in customer hands.
- Collaborate with Cisco Infrastructure teams to operationalized processes, innovate, and automate work through tooling.
- Enabled the engineering workforce to reduce build times by 70%, prune sanity run times by 30%, roll out a component health score, reduce code-commit round trip times, enforce 100% UT automation pass rate for 1100 components, move the minimum code coverage bar from 25% to 65%, front-load quality, reduce incoming defect rate by 50% and shrink test cycles by 4 weeks.
- Led 6 Concept and Execution Commits in a brief period of 8 months for software programs around routing technologies and business transformation.
- Led transformation in resource management through tooling and governance to improve resource planning from ~25% confidence to ~68% confidence for a rolling 6 month window.
- Collaborated with DevOps teams to implement a Kubernetes-based CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time from days to hours on Open source based SONIC software .
- Created Deployment Checklists and Release Notes for SREs to follow during deployments to various environments and ensures every step is followed during deployments. Defines EXIT criteria for each phase of the release and be the gatekeeper for go lives.
Senior Technical Program Manager
Amazon, Inc
08.2022 - 12.2023
- Defined and executed AI/ML based targeted promotions (NPI), creating over $500 million in revenue through acquiring new customers and deploying worldwide for non-paid Prime customers.
- Led iterative delivery of strategic prime introductory offer initiatives (NPI) from beginning to end by delivering prioritized program roadmaps, schedules, and proactively identifying or addressing potential setbacks in ve marketplaces.
- Spearheaded the launch of Prime acquisition offers, resulting in an increase in $1B in revenue from enhanced annual paid memberships. Partnered cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment of product development efforts.
- Led a comprehensive analysis of customer feedback and market trends to identify UX improvements and prioritize key opportunities for product growth, resulting in the launch of 10+ features estimated to increase 500K paid subscribers.
- Through org-wide collaboration, contribution, and partnerships, conducted market analysis, research, and experimentation to identify & deliver opportunities for growth and optimization of existing product lines, resulting in a 3% increase in product engagement, retention and customer lifetime value.
Senior Product Manager
Sap Ariba
05.2020 - 08.2022
- Scaled an incubated product (NPI) from one Fortune 500 customer to 60+ in eight countries across four continents within one year.
- Responsible for implementing NPI solutions leveraging the latest capabilities of SAP S/4HANA software.
- Collaborated with design partners (early access customers) to capture pain points and receive feedback on features and user experience.
- Driven the migration of all SAP Ariba SpotBuy production applications, services and workloads to hyperscalers.
- Partnered and integrated with top global marketplaces like Amazon to deliver Consumer-like Marketplace experiences within the Ariba Marketplace.
Technical Program Manager (New Products - Data Center Switches)
Cisco Systems, Inc
10.2014 - 10.2019
- Led full integration of Broadcom Jericho ASIC's across all Nexus data center 7K hardware, which included the design phase, new product introduction (NPI) phase, and subsequent hardware rollout across all Nexus 7k platforms. The Impact had a more unified hw architecture, leading the industry with 16 GB of buffer capacity and 3.6 Tb/sec of switching bandwidth and routing silicon to enable scalability.
- Responsible for driving the full life-cycle of Cisco Nexus Hardware innovation programs specific to Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Software Defined Networking, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and key hardware design protocols, utilizing Agile (Scrum), and/or lean Kanban project management methodologies.
- Managed ODM/JDM partners to develop routing and switching Nexus platforms and supported the project during ODVT, EDVT, MDVT, Diags, DevTest, and system testing.
- Streamlined a complete process to handle all customer issues. Led BU hardware sustaining efforts by being focal point of incoming field issues. Created processes to deal with customer issues in a timely manner. Created teams as needed, led cross-functional teams to resolve customer issues.
- Utilized JIRA and Confluence to track development issues, prioritize requests amongst development teams, quantify efficiency, and report team progress against OKRs/KPIs.
- Drove cross-functional program alignment and worked with multiple stakeholders, including Data Center Infrastructure teams, Network NPI, Hardware Design, DC Capacity Management, Software Engineering, and Application teams.
Senior Network Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
06.2010 - 09.2014
- Responsible for leading key network development solutions within the Cisco Nexus business unit including feature enhancements within VxLAN L2/L3 Gateway, Fretta NX-OS, and BGP EVPN Control Plane.
- Worked on performance and feature testing for all Optics and Cables (10G/40G/100GbE) on various product lines of Nexus 7000 Data Center Switches.
- Subject matter expert, and final escalation point for all network specific issues relating to VxLAN and Fretta NX-OS platforms including network, CPU, memory, power, network interface cards (NIC) and hardware diagnostics.
- Initiated and developed Routing Test capability, based on customer escalation trends, to address interop timing issues among ASR1k, ASR9k and N7k. Results included in a 30% decrease of timing support escalations via Cisco TAC.
Test and Automation Engineer
FutureSoft
05.2002 - 07.2006
- Tested 25+ features by developing functional and interoperability test cases for switching hardware, critically reviewing product requirements, and promptly responding to customer escalations.
- Augmented team performance by training and mentoring 12 new graduates, identifying test errors and bugs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to conduct root cause analysis for feature automation.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Technology -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
Skills
CERTIFICATIONS - Amazon Web Services - Solutions Architect Associate
Certified Scrum Master ICP-ACC - Certified Agile Coach Certified Scrum Product Owner Certified SaFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master
Network HW - Expert knowledge of Nexus HW series 2000, 3000, 7000/7700, and 9000. ASIC (Trident), tomahawk, jericho, Tofino, Silicon One.
Virtualization + Cloud - Hypervisors (ESXi), vSwitches, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Working knowledge of Linux, Ixia, and Microsoft VSS.
Software PM Methodologies - (SDLC), Cisco Product Development Methodology (CPDM), Key Results (OKRs) Methodology, and Agile
Programming language - Python
Timeline
Principal Technical Program Manager
Cisco Systems
01.2024 - Current
Senior Technical Program Manager
Amazon, Inc
08.2022 - 12.2023
Senior Product Manager
Sap Ariba
05.2020 - 08.2022
Technical Program Manager (New Products - Data Center Switches)
Cisco Systems, Inc
10.2014 - 10.2019
Senior Network Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
06.2010 - 09.2014
Test and Automation Engineer
FutureSoft
05.2002 - 07.2006
Bachelor of Engineering in Technology -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University