Manikandan is a Principal Engineer in the Cloud Engineering and Operations group at Intuit, Inc. Mani leads the development of vision and strategy for the network and security services to secure Intuit's SaaS platform. He has over 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, predominantly in architecting, designing, and implementing various large-scale networks, some of which are global backbone networks for banks spanning 100 plus countries.  With the rate at which newer technologies are evolving, Mani loves to challenge the status quo in adoption of architecture, design and technology stacks to consistently evolve at best-in-class solutions for a plethora of hosting needs to improve performance, raise the bar on security and optimize hosting cost.