Personal Characteristics - People-oriented leadership style and ability to motivate teams with a sound understanding of technology and architecture - Passionate and high-integrity leader with great coaching, counseling and mentoring skills - Ability to provide both technical vision and hands-on leadership of day-to-day activities - Ability to successfully promote long-term strategic direction for core products and technologies - Strong customer-focus, and active partner/customer engagement approach toward fast feedback and course correction Management Experience - Years of managing the development of large-scale systems in data, storage and cloud space - Execution, delivery, deployment of complex software systems - Mentoring and developing individuals into senior contributor and management roles - Managing geographically distributed organizations with teams in US, Europe and Asia - Adopting and Implementing Agile/Scrum development methodologies - Creating and managing budgets for engineering as well as capital equipment and operations - Presenting technology, roadmaps and engineering plans to senior executives and at C-level

VP Engineering @ Video Experiences and Platforms From May 2015 to Present (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVP of Engineering @ Foundational Cloud Platforms and Services which include Storage (both NoSQL and Object Storage), Edge (Caching, Proxying, Routing and Streaming), User Profile Service, and End-user Performance. From April 2014 to April 2015 (1 year 1 month) United StatesActing Head of Systems Research Lab @ Leading the effort to rebuild the Systems Group, and focus long-term research in Storage, Security, Networking and Performance From May 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 9 months) Sr. Director - Cloud Foundational Platforms and Services @ From March 2013 to March 2014 (1 year 1 month) Sr. Director, Engineering - Cloud Storage, User Data, and Shared Services @ Engineering and architecture leadership for all structured storage platforms. Includes Sherpa, User Data Stores, Tribble, User Profile Mediation, Elastic Load Balancing, Autoscaling, Tier Management. Backbone of each and every service in Yahoo! -- Social Platforms, Advertising, Search, Mail, Messenger, Media. My responsibilities include: * Product Architecture * Product Evangelist * Product Feature Roadmap * Engineering Leadership: Managing engg team in US, Norway and China * Attracting and retaining top talent * Operational and customer support * Customer on-boarding process * Capacity Modeling, Forecasting, Procurement From September 2011 to March 2013 (1 year 7 months) Senior Director, Engineering - Cloud Structured Storage and Messaging @ Engineering and architecture leadership for all structured storage platforms. Includes Sherpa, User Data Stores, Tribble, User Profile Mediation. Backbone of each and every service in Yahoo! -- Social Platforms, Advertising, Search, Mail, Messenger, Media. My responsibilities include: * Product Architecture * Product Evangelist * Product Feature Roadmap * Engineering Leadership: Managing engg team in US and India * Attracting and retaining top talent * Operational and customer support * Customer on-boarding process * Capacity Modeling, Forecasting, Procurement From July 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 3 months) Director, Engineering - Sherpa Cloud Storage Service @ Engineering and product leadership for Sherpa -- globally replicated cloud storage service -- that supports numerous Yahoo! business viz. Y!QL, Y!Mobile, Y!OS, Advertising, Geo-location, MyYahoo!, Y!Sports, Wretch. We are on path to support other large business such as Y!Mail, Y!Messenger, Y!Finance, Y!Video. Sherpa is deployed and functional in many Yahoo! data centers around the world. Sherpa is designed to scale elastically from * 1B requests per day to over 100B requests per day * 100sTB of data to over 10sPB My responsibilities include: * Product Feature Roadmap * Product Architecture * Product Evangelist * Engineering Leadership: Managing engg team in US and India * Attracting and retaining top talent * Operational and customer support * Customer on-boarding process * Capacity Modeling, Forecasting, Procurement From July 2008 to July 2010 (2 years 1 month) Sr Principal Architect - Cloud Computing and Data Infrastructure @ Designing a scalable, replicated, distributed database to serve billions of users/ads/requests with minimal latency and high reliability. From February 2008 to July 2008 (6 months) Engineering and Operations Head @ Geopepper the next generation location-based push-messaging service for mobiles. We built a software platform GMS to enable large scale geo-fencing and applications. Roles and Responsibilities: - Project Management + Budgeting for a team of 13 (US + offshore) - Release planning, tracking, risk management and mitigation - Developed scalable high performance architecture for GMS - Algorithms+patents for large scale geo-fencing in mobile networks - Module Development Lead: Designed, developed and tested multiple modules – GMS Data Model v1 and v2, Physical table designs, GMS Blade Architecture, Geopepper Web Portal, Extensible Predicate Filter/Rule Infrastructure for GMS Engine, J2ME and BREW handset clients - Led and coordinated Geopepper Trial and demos at 3GSM and CTIA - Product Management, Business Development: Supporting General Manager (GM) and CTO in defining features, and customer engagements From June 2007 to January 2008 (8 months) Engineering Manager @ - Led the architecture, design, engineering and operations of http://www.geopepper.com. - Led a small focused team of engineers to build the next generation location-based services platform and applications. From October 2005 to January 2008 (2 years 4 months) Technical Manager @ - Managed a team of 5 research scientists and software developers to build new products/modules in Network Discovery, Data Mediation/Integration and Service Quality Monitoring. - Managing project plan and working closely with business units to commercialize innovations - Part of team to define Lucent’s NM research and development strategy From August 2004 to October 2005 (1 year 3 months) Member of Technical Staff @ - Lead on features of Datablitz Main Memory Database - Hot standby, Replication (relational), Windows port, 64-bit port - Relational-to-XML publishing techniques and Research From June 1998 to August 2004 (6 years 3 months) Member of Technical Staff @ - Led development for applications on homegrown OODB in a 7 person startup - Built software pieces for IndiaWorld.com (one of India’s first news and information portal) From 1993 to 1995 (2 years) Software Engineer @ Worked on Indian Railways Reservation System From 1992 to 1993 (1 year)

Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP), Certificate Program @ University of California, Berkeley From 2012 to 2012 M.S., Computer Science @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay From 1995 to 1997 B.S., Computer Science and Engineering @ University of Mumbai From 1988 to 1992 P.P.S. Narayan is skilled in: Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Organizational Leadership, NoSQL, Low Latency, Large Scale Systems, Software Development, Mentoring, Technical Presentations, Customer Presentations, Product Vision, System Architecture, Service Operations, Managed Services, SaaS