Sashidhar Annaluru, Head of SASE Engineering, VMware SASE

Sashi, Head of SASE Engineering at VMware, is in charge of VMware SASE products including SD-WAN, CWS, Secure Access, and ENI. Sashi was previously the VP of Engineering at Ivanti (known as Pulse Secure prior to acquisition), where he led the cloud transformation of Secure Access products and brought ZTNA/SASE cloud products to market.

He also worked for Fortinet, Stoke, Tatara Systems, and Lucent Bells Labs, among others, building enterprise and service provider networking and security products.

Sashi has a master's degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Bombay, and holds a certificate in executive business from Stanford University.