Kiran Makarla is Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager at CA BlazeMeter. As a computer science graduate, a certified product manager and master in program management, He has been in business technology for the past 18+ yrs. playing multiple roles as a lead engineer, functional architect, product manager and marketing manager. In the past, he helped build, develop, evangelize and demonstrate the test, cloud & workload automation solutions in both public / private & hybrid cloud environments.

He is passionate about developing, launching and managing solutions that resonates with the customers. He prefers to leverage his abilities to draw upon his software development background in partnering with senior technology executives (VPs, CIOs/CTOs), help them analyze product roadmaps, categories and explore market opportunities with relentless focus on practitioners / developers