Prakash Aradhya
Redmond,OR
Summary
Product Leader: A Pragmatic product leader with a proven track record of delivering market leading enterprise products and cloud services. Entrepreneurial, passionate, customer obsessed, ready to dive deep, ability to work in an ambiguous environment, coach and mentor high performing team, build trusted relationships with cross functional teams, customers and partners to deliver results.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director, Product Management
Salesforce Inc
11.2021 - Current
- Lead portfolio of Runtime and Observability Cloud Services that power MuleSoft Integration and Automation product lines
- Delivered 28+% YOY ACV growth through innovative enterprise products that impacts $2B+ MuleSoft business
- Delivered next-gen MuleSoft Monitoring and Observability Platform to extend the reach of MuleSoft products to encompass AI based proactive alerting as well as integration with Open telemetry standard based ecosystem
- Managed high performing team to relaunch observability products as managed cloud services to not only enable acceleration of products to market and to support customers to directly leverage highly scalable cloud services
- Helped achieve increased adoption of services with usage based pricing and packaging, driving the services revenue growth by 65% yoy
- Delivered Unified monitoring and observability experience, a converged portfolio of integration and automation products, extend customer value to achieve faster discovery and resolution of application issues
- Enhanced customer perceived availability of Anypoint MQ messaging service with automated failover and disaster recovery in a multi-region deployment
- Oversaw expansion of runtime services across multiple regions for both commercial and government clouds.
Principal Product Manager
Amazon Web Services
03.2020 - 11.2021
- Lead and managed app modernization services team
- Helped achieve increased adoption of AWS container platforms (ECS and EKS) through modernization services
- Oversaw product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery and consistent quality.
- Delivered modernization services and products to help customers move their windows based workloads to AWS services like, Containers, Serverless (Lambda), App Runner and Elastic Beanstalk
- Worked diligently with customers and partners, understanding their modernization journey, defined product plans working backwards from their needs, setting clear delivery goals for the product team.
- Successfully delivered two new modernization services (AWS App2Container and Porting Assistant for .NET)
- Lead multiple initiatives to deliver new services to address customer pain points and provide a seamless modernization journey to cloud.
Director Product Management, Business Automation Platforms
Red Hat Inc
07.2008 - 03.2020
- Head of Products for Automation portfolio that included Red Hat Decision Manager, Red Hat Process Automation Manager and Business Planner product lines
- Built the product lines from 0-1 and grew the business to $100M+ in revenue with over 200+ product team members
- Hired and managed a high performing product management team, empowering and coaching to build successful and innovative products
- Awarded with a US patent for product design ideas
- Conceived, developed and delivered Red Hat Process Automation Manager which is now a leading open source workflow automation product
- Substantially disrupted the market by displacing highly concentrated market leaders through compelling, open source alternatives
- Converged, Process management, Data visualization, Business intelligence, Applied AI / ML to deliver cohesive solution for customers
- Successfully executed technology acquisition to augment product offering
- Conceived, developed and delivered Red Hat Decision Manager (Drools), the most successful products in Red Hat portfolio within a span of 3 years from 0 to 1, establishing a defacto standard in the marketing for AI driven decision solutions.
- Championed product offerings among customers, analysts, users, partners and sales through continued engagement to build a healthy ecosystem of partners
- Championed developer experience to drive adoption of products among enterprise developers, partner engineers and open source users
- Established as a respected influencer in the open-source developer domain, speaking at various events, championing successful developer projects.
Senior Product Manager
Sun Microsystems
01.2001 - 07.2008
- Managed Java CAPs integration product roadmaps, aligning with company goals and ensuring timely delivery of key features.
- Transitioned from a proprietary product to leading open source solution running on popular Galssfish platform
- Successfully managed product development in open source (open-esb.org). Evangelizedproducts/technologies in various forums. Helped building a vibrant eco-system ofpartners around our open source development.
- Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer interest data.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction rates through proactive communication of feature updates, bug fixes, and other relevant information related to the products managed.
- Fostered a culture of innovation within the team by encouraging creative thinking and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Processed incoming bug report analyses to design software update roadmaps.
- Spearheaded competitive analysis to identify market opportunities and drive product differentiation.
- Liaised with sales and marketing team to collect customer feedback, incorporating into subsequent production runs and development lifecycles.
- Successfully launched 'Java Powered for the Enterprise' branding program targeting JavaEE application developers.
- Lead a dispersed team of engineers in delivering various functionalities of application server that includes management and deployment support
- Participated and presented in multiple Java One technology conference and user groupmeetings.
- Actively participated in management and deployment standards development (JSRs)
Technical Architect
Specialized Software Inc
11.1999 - 12.2000
- Participated in customer engagements in analyzing business problems
- Architected technological solutions to customers business problems with multiple products/technological alternatives based on Java EE and Microsoft technologies
- Scope the requirements, build and deliver the solution
- Manged a team of 6 solution engineers
- Lead a team of 16 engineers at customer sites during transition process, including various product/solution trainings
- Consulted to IBM and many of IBM customers as their solution partners
- Consulted to IBM as a subject matter expert (SME) in developing various product/architecture certification programs.
Senior Software Engineer
IBM
07.1997 - 11.1999
- Core member of WebSphere product development team
- Developed and tested modules for Websphere products to comply with J2EE Servlet specification
- Lead a team of 4 engineers in developing a Java interface for one of IBM's legacy product
- Gathered requirements with frequent interactions with remote product group, scoping of requirements, development of data models, object models and interface
- Developed POCs for various customer requirements
- Developed JavaBeans components for IBM's Alphaworks.
Education
MBA -
Babson College
12.2005
Bachelor of Engineering (BS) -
Bangalore University
08.1996
Skills
- Cloud native services
- Platform Management
- AI / ML, Inference expert system
- Team Management
- Collaborative Leadership
- Strategies and goals
- Process / Workflow Automation
- Blockchain smart contracts
- AWS services, ECS / EKS / Lambda
- Product portfolio from 0 to 1
- Java, JBoss, Drools, jBPM, Glassfish, JDK, SOA
Timeline
Senior Director, Product Management
Salesforce Inc
11.2021 - Current
Principal Product Manager
Amazon Web Services
03.2020 - 11.2021
Director Product Management, Business Automation Platforms
Red Hat Inc
07.2008 - 03.2020
Senior Product Manager
Sun Microsystems
01.2001 - 07.2008
Technical Architect
Specialized Software Inc
11.1999 - 12.2000
Senior Software Engineer
IBM
07.1997 - 11.1999
MBA -
Babson College
Bachelor of Engineering (BS) -
Bangalore University
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