Naresh Kumar
Vice President Of Product Management at Zscaler
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNaresh Kumar is a seasoned product executive with 20+ years of experience and a decade in senior leadership, currently shaping Zscaler’s Inline Cyber Threat Protection and flagship $1.1B ZIA portfolio from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a proven track record of turning network security and firewall products into high-growth businesses—scaling Cloud Firewall to $150M ARR and owning $220M+ ARR portfolios while founding new SASE incubations to displace site-to-site VPNs. Naresh blends deep networking and security engineering roots (MS in Computer Networks) with product, GTM and P/L ownership across SD-WAN, FWaaS, DNS security, Private Service Edge and traffic forwarding. Comfortable both in the weeds of protocol-level design and in executive strategy, he previously led Juniper’s transition from appliances to cloud/virtual services. An active open-source developer fluent in Python, Node.js, PHP and SQL, he pairs hands-on coding experience with enterprise product leadership—an uncommon combo at VP level. He holds executive training in marketing and general management from UC Berkeley Extension, enabling him to align product vision with market outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Networks, MS Computer Networks at Illinois Institute of TechnologyB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Malaviya National Institute of Technology JaipurExecutive Certificate Program Marketing Strategy and General Management, Executive Certificate Program Marketing Strategy and General Management at UC Berkeley Extension
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Github Skills (26)
docker9
python-data9
ringcentral8
pythonic8
validation8
data-validation7
html6
django-admin6
voice6
php6
css6
sms6
jquery6
python6
django6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nareshnootoo/sticky-headings
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 4 months
light-weightjquerylightjavascriptfree-plugin
nareshnootoo/voluptuous
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
pythonvalidationvalidation-libraryvalidatorpython-data
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