Jaganathan Jeyapaul (JJ)
Technologies and Chief AI Architect at Zelar
Jaganathan Jeyapaul (jj)
Technologies and Chief AI Architect at Zelar
Saratoga, California
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Emerging Technologies and Chief AI Architect
2024 - Current
Helping Enterprises & SMBs to transform their current technologies and prepare well for the AI driven economy! #HybridCloud #Migratingoffvmware #Observability #DevSecOps #AIOps
Zelarsoft is an IT company that specializes in DevOps, cloud-native consulting, product engineering, data integration, and analytics.
SVP of SaaS Engineering and Operations
2022 - 2024
Joined Saviynt to scale the SaaS Engineering and Operations to enable enterprise customer hypergrowth and improve customer sentiment about product and support. Led the SaaS engineering and operations for Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud to support hyper-growth in commercial and FED customers and partners, through cloud-native and managed approaches. I spearheaded design and multi-cloud implementations of DevSecOps, Observability, achieving cost efficiency with cloud-native managed services, resulting in 2X customer scale over 18 months, 40% cost savings, improving customer satisfaction score by 100% (CSAT > 80%)
Saviynt is an identity management company that provides cloud-first identity governance and access management solutions for businesses.
Raised $375,000,000.00 from PNC Bank and HPS Investment Partners.
CTO & EVP
2021 - 2022
Diamanti raised a round of funding and needed a CTO (and acting CPO) to pivot their product strategy & roadmap and integrate natively with Kubernetes to maintain their lead in the “high performance Kubernetes software appliance market”. As their CTO, I directed the hybrid / multi-cloud product strategy, market positioning and implementation of Diamanti's Kubernetes based Control Plane, Data Plane and Service Orchestration products and software appliances. Engineered software-defined appliances achieving 1M+ IOPS, critical for high-performance cloud workloads, outperforming competition (e.g., Red Hat Rancher) by 3x. Met 100% ARR target for 2022 by strategically influencing key clients, including major banks in EMEA and a large utility company in Florida, through tailored solutions and robust performance metrics.
Diamanti is the technology leader in bare-metal container infrastructure, purpose-built for modern cloud and open-source environments.
Raised $78,000,000.00 from Northgate Capital, Goldman Sachs, CRV, Cliffs, GSR Ventures, ClearSky and Threshold.
VP of Engineering - SaaS
2017 - 2021
Enhanced Oracle SaaS cloud performance, scale, and resiliency to strengthen its competitive position in the Enterprise SaaS market. I was directly recruited by the “President of Oracle” to establish and lead global SaaS Platform lifecycle management. Built a SaaS Engineering (DevSecOps) organization of 200+, overseeing the design, construction, and operation of SaaS LCM platforms, APIs, and data systems, crucial for SaaSification of Oracle’s Fusion applications. Amplified SaaS cloud LCM scale by 100x, performance by 10x, and QoS by 200% through technology and people transformation.
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
VP of Engineering & Chief Technical Architect
2009 - 2017
- Equinix grew exponentially through acquisitions of network dense data centers. All these physical data centers & assets needed a robust software control plane and secure data plane to integrate, manage and provide B2B services to customers. - Joined Equinix as a founding software engineer, progressing to head of engineering; built a world-class product, IT engineering, DevSecOps organization of 300+ across the US, Singapore, and India, enabling 10,000+ Enterprises, SMBs, and Startups, and facilitating hyper-scale product-based revenue growth while operating 200+ data centers. I managed an annual R&D budget of $100M+, and jointly acquired 40+ patents with colleagues, driving innovation and technological advancements. - Launched key products and services including a B2B business platform, omnichannel digital experience (Web/mobile/API), hybrid cloud services and platforms (patented) for AWS, GCP, and Azure integration, data pipeline and data lake, API/developer experiences (developer.equinix.com), and open-sourced AquaJS for rapid micro-services development.
Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Raised $3,396,996,755.00 from Crosslink Capital.
Technical Advisor
2014 - 2015
Senior Manager - Enterprise Technology Platforms and Architecture
2003 - 2009
B2B eCommerce, SOA, Web services, integration platforms and Digital security. Expertise in PKI, Digital certificates, Identity tokens. Open source contributions to Burlap web server framework.
VeriSign Authentication Services provides network infrastructure, security and telecommunications services for companies and individuals.
Lead Architect / Engineer & Consultant
1999 - 2003
Worked as a Lead Engineer in multiple start up companies during this period. Java, J2EE, XML, Scripting, Databases