About

Arvind Gopalan is an accomplished product management leader with over 18 years of work experience in the networking and network security areas. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Kansas State University. Arvind has a proven ability to strategize, innovate, create, and manage successful cloud and on-prem products. Arvind is a motivated professional with domain expertise in various areas such as Network Security, Cloud Security, Mobile Security, SaaS, Big-Data Analytics, TCP/IP Internals, Network/SaaS Authentication, and RBAC models, among others. He has experience building a Cloud-native API-driven Big-Data platform that hosts multiple SaaS apps and is responsible for multiple Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services. Arvind is also familiar with AWS Marketplace integration and Commerce and Fulfillment flows for self-service SaaS apps, along with Hybrid Cloud Technologies that span cloud and on-prem instances. Arvind's specialties include Product Strategy, Product Management, V1 product inception to launch, Hiring & Mentoring, Product Marketing, Pricing, Product Launch, Cross-functional leadership, Business Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Product Roadmap, SI/VAR & Strategic Partnerships, Sales and SE Enablement, Agile Development Methodologies, Market Analysis & Sizing, Product Positioning, Strategic Partnerships, and Product Evangelism. Arvind's past work experience includes being the Sr. Director of Product Management at Proofpoint, where he managed SOAR-related products and helped transform Proofpoint Threat Response (PTR) into a programmable platform that could include developer-created Python scripts. He was also the Sr. Director of Product Management at Lookout, where he was responsible for several mobile security and threat intelligence products. Arvind has a diverse educational background, having studied at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Kansas State University, Delhi Technological University, and Delhi Public School. He is proficient in various technologies such as product management, ML, AWS, Mobile, Search, Integration, UI, Web, and Python. With 24.28 years of relevant experience, Arvind Gopalan is currently the Director of Product Management at Splunk, where he is building a new cloud-native Big-Data platform.