Nitish John is an accomplished Director of Software Engineering with an impressive track record of delivering enterprise and consumer-facing Cloud, Security, and AI/ML products. With over two decades of industry experience, John has worked for Fortune 100 companies such as Qualcomm, Motorola, and AMD, as well as start-up companies, where he has led teams and built successful global engineering teams for high-performance outputs. John's specialties include Agile methodologies, secure coding guidelines, distributed computing, and strategic road-mapping, and he has extensive experience in IAM, mobile security, and cloud security. With a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz, John is also a seasoned academic with a decade of research experience. His research focused on Information-centric Network (ICN), and he was advised by Professor J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering - UCSC. John's educational background also includes a Masters of Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Engineering from Gujarat University.