Krishna Prasad Padukudru
Security & Platform Product Leader
Security and platform product leader with over a decade at Cisco, Akamai, and NetApp, taking enterprise security and infrastructure products from strategy to scale.
Scope has spanned a $2B+ data platform and a $600M product line, with ownership of P&L, pricing, and multi-year roadmaps.
CISSP-certified, with deep expertise in zero trust, threat intelligence, DNS and web security, and endpoint protection.
Adept at grounding product decisions in data along with the customer's real needs, while working across functions and regions to deliver them.
Uses AI across the product workflow, from requirements to analysis, to raise both quality and speed.
NetApp, Senior Product Manager ONTAP Core
Nov 2024 to Present
Leads strategy for a $2B data platform, with a major cut in customer storage cost during a memory shortage
Akamai, Senior Product Manager Enterprise Security
Nov 2022 to Oct 2024
Set the direction for a zero-trust security suite and raised proof-of-concept win rates with a new threat dashboard
NetApp, Product Manager ONTAP SAN
Jun 2021 to Nov 2022
Grew All-SAN Array bookings sharply year over year through licensing, pricing, and roadmap changes
Cisco, Product Manager Security and Customer Experience
Aug 2016 to Jun 2021
Grew incident-response revenue at a strong CAGR by evangelizing the solution and rationalizing the portfolio
