Lakshmi has decades of experience leading and driving strategy and transformation in engineering, business, and IT, leveraging people, process and technologies for successful business and cultural outcomes. Her professional journey includes time at Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, RIFT.io, Apcera, Target, and most recently, Google, where she spent four years as the Director of Product Management for Networking in Google Cloud. Lakshmi was responsible for end-to-end customer experience for Networking and Networking Solutions, crossing multiple industry verticals.