Ashok Sankar
Founder And Principal at Market Keys LLC
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolAshok Sankar is a marketing and product leader with 10+ years of experience helping AI, cybersecurity, and SaaS companies grow by simplifying complex technical concepts into clear positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies. As Founder and Principal of Market Keys and former senior leader at Dynatrace, ReliaQuest, and Splunk, he has driven industry-specific ARR growth, orchestrated account-based and demand-generation programs, and built analyst and customer advocacy channels. He has a strong public sector and security pedigree—shaping FedRAMP/NIST-compliant SaaS strategies and pioneering categories like Open XDR and Virtual Mobile Infrastructure. Known for blending technical understanding (MS in Electrical Engineering and cybersecurity strategy training) with commercial acumen, he translates product telemetry and threat analytics into compelling market narratives. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he advises startups and boards on market strategy and product roadmaps, often surfacing non-obvious competitive insights from cross-domain telemetry and analyst interactions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Cybersecurity Strategy, Cybersecurity Strategy at Georgetown UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Virginia TechCertified, Product Management and Marketing, Certified, Product Management and Marketing at Pragmatic MarketingBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering at PSG College of Technology
English, Hindi, Tamil, German
Github Skills (4)
terraform-provider10
aws10
terraform10
terraform-module9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
sbu-fsl/txn-compound
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:77 commits in 1 year
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