Feb 2018 – Jun 2018 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Built initial team for Optiv India software engineering for all Optiv Services including Managed Security Services (MSS), Cloud Security, Next Gen SOC, Security Orchestration Automation and Big Data Analytics.
• Managed cross geographic team and had UI and QA/Dev Ops drive new MSS portal development.
• Contributions to customer engineering, process overhaul and future state architectures.

May 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Presently leading global Engineering Org that is responsible for end to end Optical hardware-software products and solutions portfolio. US$0.5B yearly revenue.
• Leading teams to transform the next generation open and programmable software systems to orchestrate multi-platform multi-vendor multi-layer optical systems. Delivering to WebOTT customer needs.
• Data Center Interconnect, Service Provider network transformation.
• Led Platform Independent software organization that delivers business outcomes for Core Software Group including Data center, Service Provider and Enterprise market.
• Led Cisco Nexus OS software and Common Routing, Manageability, Security and network Infrastructure technologies.
• Lead team of 250+ engineers including partner engineers. Org structure included directors and principal engineers handling various divisions and architecture of Core software group.
• Building strong team from ground up to transition the ownership of most of Core Software charters without impacting business continuity

Nov 2010 – Apr 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Broadband technologies transition and solution proliferation to SP customers with both IOS-XE and IOS-XR platforms.
• Foundation and Infra structure charters, SDN, Embedded Manageability charters and enabling them to be the CoE.
• Software Monetarization efforts through new paradigm of licensing, IPSec services through new program paradigm
• Worked with products and technologies spanning all three major market segments, Enterprise, Service Provider and Data Center.
• Various Quality improvement programs to bring the technical debt to zero and talent rotation to thought leadership initiatives.
• Architecture and delivery of Infrastructure for Dynamic service scaling and orchestration in a Cloud environment – Critical element of Cisco’s NFV strategy
• Secured special budget from Cisco’s Technology fund for incubating initiatives in Autonomic Networks, Distributed Network Analytics, Network Manageability simplification & Service chaining in NFV. Featured as Technology innovations at Industry level.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Identity (AAA, Radius, TACACS, LDAP) and IP Services (NBAR and RSVP) charters in addition to existing WAN and Network Access protocols.
• New Technical initiatives around IP RAN solutions, Medianet and Topology Discovery (that helped fund the Pioneer Award winning Autonomic Networks Tech Fund program)
• Transitioned from a First Line manager to a 2nd line Senior manager to lead an org of managers and Technical Leaders. Team size of 50+.

Nov 2003 – Jul 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Managed most of Cisco’s WAN and access software on IOS-XE routers and switch products. (ATM, FR, ISDN, X25, Dialer, VLAN etc.)
• Transition of full ATM feature and sustenance teams from SJ to Bangalore
• Quality Enhancement programs to reduce the backlog, incoming and sustenance headcount. Revectoring talent for newer business needs, transitions and initiatives.
• Initiatives around technical capability improvement of engineers by talent rotation and training.

Jun 2002 – Oct 2003 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Global Engineering Release Lead PoC for IOS XE release
• Initiatives on Tech Incubators from ITD India team
• Customer Escalations related to low latency WAN link optimization solutions.

Jun 2000 – May 2002 · 1 yr 11 mos

• • Features, Sustenance, Customer Escalation on Platform Independent software related to network access protocols.

Dec 1997 – May 2000 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Design and development of ATM switch with IP Capabilities
• FTTH and FTTC projects, PoC for NTT
• Implementation of SPVC and NNI capabilities in the ATM switch

Dec 1996 – Nov 1997 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Running Regressions on WAN protocols on IOS routers and switches
• Designed and developed Automatic Debug Tool to ease the reproduction of testbed and script failures

Oct 1994 – Nov 1996 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Ethernet Device Drivers, Bridging and VLAN solutions on Ethernet Terminal Concentrator
• SNMPv1 and v2 - design and implementation of core infra and some MIBs
• ATM on Desktop, ATM for internetworking. Early implementations of UNI and PNNI.
• Visited IBM Raleigh for functional and system test verification of ATM desktop solutions on OS2 Warp

Nov 1993 – Jun 1994 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Reverse engineering of X25 protocol stack - documenting the design.
• Flight Data Recorder - deploying the solution for National Aeronautics Limited.
• Developing Device Drivers - MS-DOS, SCO Unix and embedded systems
• Customer interaction – NAL