Karthikeyan Muthusamy

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in software development leadership.
  • Expert in driving SaaS-based network analytics solutions.
  • Proven track record in building and mentoring high-performance teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Manager with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipProject ManagementTroubleshootingNetworkingTechnical Support

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Automation using PythonCC++CCNACustomer ServiceData CenterGo (Programming Language)GolangGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)HTMLIP NetworkingJiraKubernetes

About

Engineering manager with 10+ years of experience leading high-impact software development at Arista Networks. Skilled in building and mentoring agile teams, driving SaaS-based network analytics and business tools, and delivering scalable, reliable applications. Combines strong technical expertise with strategic leadership to align engineering outcomes with business goals, fostering innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Arista networks

3 roles

Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Engineering Manager, and Application Owner
  • Foster a positive work environment, ensuring the developers remain motivated and engaged.
  • Oversee the hiring, training, and performance reviews of developers and interns.
  • Make critical decisions, manage conflicts, and implement change management strategies.
  • Cultivate a high-performance team by promoting a culture of trust and collaboration.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements for new applications and application requests for enhancement (RFEs).
  • Develop project plans, define deliverables, set timelines, and allocate resources effectively.
  • Drive development efforts to ensure timely and successful project completion.
  • Manage releases and gather user and stakeholder feedback for continuous improvement.
  • Provide technical guidance to the team, leveraging domain and business knowledge.
  • Manage deployment infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Project ManagementTeam LeadershipAgile Methodologies

Team Lead

Jul 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading a development team who builds Transactional tools such as dashboards, bots, and CRM-related applications and also builds Network analytical applications for better customer support. The responsibility includes,
  • People management, making the work environment better, keeping the Engineers motivated
  • Sharing the day with awesome technical brains who also have great attitude
  • Working with relevant stakeholders and collecting Requirements for the new applications / Application RFEs
  • Preparing the project plan, defining deliverables, timelines and resource allocation
  • Driving the development efforts till the project's completion
  • Release management and work with Users/stakeholders for feedback
  • Being a technical adviser team and offering the domain and Business knowledge
  • Maintaining the deployment infrastructure in GCP and AWS
  • Occasional developer who writes in Golang
GolangGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Project ManagementTeam Leadership

Technical Solutions Engineer

Mar 2016Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Assisting global customers who have Arista DCS switches/Routers, CVP, and CVX in their Nerworks
  • Assisting customers in deployment/troubleshooting of DC deployments L2 UCN and L3 UCN using VXLAN and EVPN
  • Experience in connecting Physical and Virtual workloads by Vmware NSX and openstack using Arista CVX controller
  • Assisting customers in the Arista CVP application which provides Network provisioning and Network Telemetry.
  • Exposure to Customer deployments and migrations
  • Assisting customers in General L2/L3 Technologies such as Port-channel, STP, RSTP, MSTP, ARP, VRRP,
  • Assisting customers in IGMP and PIM
  • Assisting customers in Arista MLAG, VARP protocols
  • Assisting customers in Routing protocols such as RIP and OSPF, BGP
  • Assisting customers in Monitoring protocols such as Port mirroring, Arista Queue monitor, and tap aggregation models
  • Working Experience with Splunk
  • Building Tacacs, Radius, DHCP, and file servers in Linux
  • Setting up PA firewalls, A10 load balancers, VMware ESX, Vcenter, and NSX for customer setup replication and deployment compatibilities.
  • Automation using python
  • Managing the TAC lab and automation
TroubleshootingNetworkingAutomation using PythonSplunkVMware NSX

Hcl technologies (infrastructure services division)

Technical Support Engineer

May 2013Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • TAC Engineer for Brocade campus products.
  • Assisting global customers who consume Brocade FCX, ICX, and SX modular switches.
  • Assisting customers in campus technologies such as POE, dot1x, WOL, Windows AD, and Radius servers
  • Assisting customers in General L2/L3 Technologies such as Port-channel, STP, ARP, VRRP, VRRP-E, IGMP, IGMP snooping
  • Assisting customers in Port Security, MACSec, ARP inspection, and DHCP snooping
  • Assisting customers in Brocade MCT
  • Assisting customers in Routing protocols such as RIP and OSPF
  • Assisting customers in General protocols such as DHCP, SSH, Telnet and DNS
  • Managing the TAC lab and automation
Technical SupportNetworkingTroubleshootingCustomer Service

Education

National Engineering College

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Pondicherry University

Master of Business Administration - MBA — International Business/Trade/Commerce

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Raja higher secondary school

High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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