Suda Srinivasan is the VP of Strategy and Marketing at Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB, the distributed SQL database for mission critical cloud native applications. Prior to joining Yugabyte, he was the VP of Marketing at cloud security companies Obsidian Security and Dome9. At Dome9, he led go-to-market execution and technology partnerships with leading cloud providers, driving significant year-over-year growth up to the company’s acquisition by Check Point in 2018. He has also served in leadership positions in product marketing and consulting at Nutanix and Deloitte. Suda began his career in engineering at Microsoft and the IBM Almaden Research Center. He has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Stanford University.