Dec 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos

• Promoted to Lead Software Engineer for Cisco Nexus Dashboard team through internal movement
• Ownership for building scalable, tenant-aware APIs for NDI using OpenAPI specifications
• Resolved release critical bugs for Nexus Dashboard (ND) Release Version 4.2
• Drove adoption of openAPI validation for all APIs owned by the team to ensure compliance for ND 4.3
• Driving migration and integration of dev sanity test suites from older pyATS test to a new Playwright test framework using AI skills and MCP server in cursor
• Learning and using GenAI to empower everyday engineering development workflows including effective prompt engineering, skills, md file workflows, AI agents, MCP (Multi context protocol) and multi agent orchestration

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

• Working as a social media ambassador for Cisco
• Sharing latest Cisco news on LinkedIn, especially for AI and Security

Nov 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Took the role as the APJC Lead for the DARE Women Leadership Ambassador Program by Cisco, promoting the program within Cisco and drove engagement for DARE Alumni
• Spoke in multiple DARE programs, gave motivational speeches through personal career stories
• Helped launch the newly introduced Climb Workshop in order to help transition out from DARE

Nov 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs

• Lead developer for Power cap feature as part of power policy in Cisco Intersight
• Led customer loved BIOS policy catalog features for Cisco UCS M8 servers for both AMD and Intel processors
• Led “Maximum Cooling” fan control mode feature for thermal server policy in Intersight
• Received an Achievement Award from VP, Engineering for "Driving the highest level of achievement" and various recognition awards
• Took technical interviews during Cisco hiring drive
• Backend application development: Python, Linux, Golang, Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker
• Co-led HCL Report Monitoring, working with cross-functional teams in Intersight engineering, UCS engineering and program management
• Worked on various features across Cisco Intersight: Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and server policies and profiles
• Worked with GitHub copilot and other AI tools in everyday code, improved productivity
• Received a recognition award for finishing among the top-10 ideas in Cisco Compute Ideathon
• Anchored for multiple internal events: Cisco Compute Cultural Event, Cisco CSR Event

Jul 2023 – Aug 2023 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Volunteer for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) global inclusive community via Cisco and also the WISE - India chapter.
• I am currently part of a program called "Empowering young girls in Engineering" as part of WISE India in collaboration with NGO Partner EmpowerAnanya

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• I mentor early in career professionals looking to establish themselves in software development careers.

Jan 2023 – Feb 2023 · 1 mo

• Entrusted with the responsibility of running a scrum meeting twice a week for the NDFC lan-fabric development team in Cisco Bangalore
• Led a team of 5 software engineers to successfully deliver high-quality software products within specified timelines

Nov 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr

• Promoted to SDE-3 within 5 months of joining the new team
• Co-owned the config-compliance component in the NDFC infra which generated pending config to be pushed to the data center fabric based on user intent
• Backend development for micro-services architecture in NDFC, working with Python, Java, REST APIs, and PyATS for UT automation

May 2022 – Nov 2022 · 6 mos

• Resolved important and time-critical customer issues
• Worked for the Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) team as a backend application developer

Jul 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Worked on:
• 1. The NX-OS development for Cisco MDS switches, part of the SAN Analytics development team
• 2. SAN Analytics and Telemetry using C,gRPC, Python and PyATS for UT automation including building a consistency checker and automating SQL-type queries by simulating 11,000 manual unit test cases
• 3. Various internal-use web applications
• 4. Bug-fixing in the NX-OS code

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

• Part of the SAN Analytics team ( Data Center Business Unit ) :
• Built a python application for network traffic monitoring of Cisco MDS switches using gRPC protocol for encoding, influxDB (time-series database for storage) and Grafana for visualisation of the switch parameters.
• Worked on full stack web development for the health monitoring of the Cisco MDS Switches, in an attempt to give a comprehensive view of the entire SAN network of the data center to our customers.
• Worked on technologies, like ReactJS for frontend UI, NodeJS for the locally hosted web server, Python flask server for the backend and MongoDB for the data storage in JSON format.

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked in the data center department in Cisco, for IT automation for the Nexus and MDS family of Cisco switches using Ansible

Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Served the Club in the following roles:
• 1. Associate VP Public Relations (July 2020- Dec 2020)
• I looked into the publicity aspect of the Cisco Vani club, which is the local chapter of Toastmasters International at Cisco India. I was responsible for harnessing the power of social media to get more members to join and maintain that connect.
• 2. President (Jan 2021 - June 2021)
• The Club President is the Chief Executive Officer of the club and is responsible for fulfilling the mission of this club. The President chairs at meetings of this club and the Club Executive Committee appoints all committees and has general supervision of the operation of this club.
• 3. Treasurer (July 2021 - Dec 2021)
• The treasurer is responsible for Club’s financial policies, procedures and controls. The role involves the club’s finances, including dues collection and materials purchasing.

Sep 2019 – Jun 2020 · 9 mos

• Completed Level 1 of the "Innovative Planning" pathway

Apr 2018 – Dec 2018 · 8 mos · Pilani

• Provided training for the entire Masters' students batch for the placement season 2018-19, via co-ordinating with the training vendors and the students for the smooth functioning of Mock placement tests and mock interviews.

Aug 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pilani, Rajasthan, India

• Teaching Assistantship under Dr Hari Om Bansal, Admissions Director at BITS Pilani, and Associate Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) department at BITS Pilani, for Electrical Machines and Control Systems courses
• Taught the lab course for EM (Electrical Machines) subject to second year undergraduate students for EEE (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) students at BITS Pilani

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos · Chandigarh

• Figured out what to do after graduation, what specialization to take for masters in engineering and up-skilled myself before going to a premier institute for higher studies. Was able to grab multiple offers for higher studies from IIT Kanpur, IIT Ropar, BITS Pilani and various NITs and IIITs.

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos

• Trainee at the Agrionics Laboratory, CSIO-CSIR, Chandigarh. Worked on embedded systems and wireless communication technologies, under the guidance of Principle Scientist Dr Amol Bhondekar. Received an “Outstanding” grade for the same.

Oct 2015 – Nov 2015 · 1 mo · Chandigarh, India · On-site

Jun 2014 – Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Panchkula, India · On-site

• Summer Training for PLC Ladder Logic Programming and basics of SCADA.

Apr 2013 – Sep 2013 · 5 mos · On-site

• Aavishkar is the annual technical festival of UIET, Panjab University
• Event Coordinator of the flagship event Robowars as part of the tech fest

Oct 2012 – May 2013 · 7 mos · On-site

• Selected as the only first year representative from the EEE (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) branch of
• UIET, Punjab University