About

Hariom Sharma is a senior engineering manager at Google Cloud Platform with over 20 years of professional experience in building R&D products in big data computing and IP networking. He has worked in global R&D organizations such as Amazon, Juniper, and Ericsson, as well as in startups. Hariom has 8+ years of leadership credentials in building products, defining strategy, and managing customers in big data analytics and IP networking space. Hariom has owned tech products, including strategy, engineering, and stakeholder management, for big data computing and anomaly detection systems. He has managed and developed technology teams comprising software managers, architects, and principal engineers across multiple locations. Hariom's leadership experience includes building trust with stakeholders across US/EU/APAC for big data computing products and building IP technology products. Hariom's expertise lies in developing big data computing products handling batched events at PB/day scale and IP networking technologies. He has experience developing software products for leading telecom service providers in the world, such as Verizon, DT, NTT, AT&T, Telefonica, and Orange. Hariom's three core leadership principles are integrity, empathy, and perseverance. He prefers to operate by building scalable, transparent mechanisms for delivery tracking, performance evaluation, and stakeholder management to establish trust at scale. Hariom practices servant-leadership by contributing to his organization in three ways: handling long-term ambiguity and creating a clearer strategy and roadmap, creating mechanisms to broaden the impact of his team to larger org/leadership, and listening patiently and working hard to resolve team concerns. He challenges his judgment by acting decisively and constantly practicing to articulate unambiguously and sensitively. Hariom holds an MBA (PGSEM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and an MCA in computer science from IET. He has relevant experience of 19.44 years and has worked with companies like Amazon and Ericsson R&D India, where he managed forwarding teams of engineers and delivered large features in forwarding planes on Ericsson's industry-leading ASIC SNP 4000. Currently, Hariom is leading PFE teams to deliver Ericsson's next-gen SNP8000 based all-integrated pizza box enabling L2L3 & BNG solution with 120 Gbps.