Ray Ranga

Ray Ranga heads experiences and monetization at Splunk, and develops pricing and packaging models. Before joining Splunk, he led product management at Exabeam, Vidcie, IntelePeer, and Cisco Systems. He also teaches at UC Berkeley Extension, and he received an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Houston.

• Strategic & hands-on product management leader with more than 21 years of experience in both privately held and public companies
• Set & drove global product & GTM strategies, OKRs, performance management, AOP (hiring & budgetary) in early startups and multi-billion-dollar public companies
• Hired and managed globally dispersed teams
• Launched and managed full lifecycle of 6 brand new version 1.0 products
• 360 degree product lifecycle view including roadmap prioritization, customer success, renewals, launch aspects such as legal, marketing, compliance, data privacy, telemetry, etc..
• Doubled customer base, grew revenue by over 200% and data ingest volume scaled up 20x, in a span of 18 months
• Managed portfolio-wide pricing strategies, end-user experience and self-service workflows for SaaS transformation
• Delivered aggressive roadmaps, protected investments and business goals (customer acquisition, renewals, margins)
• Teach regularly at UC Berkeley & Stanford

The following technology domains align closely with my experience/interests:

• Big Data, Data Pipelines, Statistical Data Modeling, ETL, Kafka, Spark, HDFS, Mongo
• Data Science and Machine Learning, Modeling, Baselining, Anomaly Detection
• Cybersecurity : UEBA, Endpoint Detection and Response, Firewall, Netflow, IPS, IDS, SIEM, SOAR
• Cloud Service Delivery via Self-Service & Automation
• Analytics, BI, Data Visualization, ODBC integrations
• Networking: Routing, Ethernet Switching, Wireless LAN, TCP/IP, UDP
• Others: Internet of Things (IoT), API, SDK, B2B & Mobile Apps, Video