Neha Agarwal Email & Phone Number

United States

Bengaluru Area, India

Bengaluru Area, India

As a Program Manager, I led various Switching and Routing Releases at Cisco to delivery, with good/great quality. One of my most satisfying projects here, was being a part of the Quality Team that looks at those aspects of a Program/Project run/delivery, which are underlying, yet when improved can improve S/W quality and experience of working on that project for various contributors to the project. We used Machine Learning to predict various Quality parameters and hence take preventive actions. Very useful enhancements were worked on, for the bug filing tool. This tool carries a lot of data, which eventually gets assimilated for customer info. It was amazing to have a bird's eye view of the entire process for a S/W Releases and see how everything is connected. Having been an Engineer, this stint was especially useful in connecting dots and using that info for improving the process.

Bengaluru Area, India

End-to-end networking platform development experience, whilst leading some strategic platform programs sums up my tenure as a part of the Catalyst Switching System software team at Cisco.Have worked on various components of Catalyst 4k development, from ASIC validation to LC components like Phy, FPGAs, varied I/Fs. I have worked on various aspects of system side for a modular/fixed chassis like Linecards(LC), the Supervisor, the switching/forwarding ASIC, coding for PD(Platform Dependent) part of IOS.Developing the first Mgig LC led to my first patent. I led the LC-SR(Silent Roll) and CR program for a few platforms, which allowed the latest version of ASICs to be available to customers without changing the PID.Post Cat4k, I led Poe Development for Cat2k and 3K platforms and led design for the first 3rd party PoE ASIC for those platforms and their Perpetual PoE.Jtag concepts and Xsvf parser have been an area of focus and expertise too.

Bengaluru Area, India

I was in the Memory Team and worked on MMC drivers and general filesystem(proprietary). Though the stint was short, I got a chance to look into the design of eMMC driver from scratch. I learnt more about Filesystem through bug resolution.

Coded in C# for their Automation Test Tool.

2.5 years of experience in Freescale Semiconductors working on Bootloader, SDMA and Security(High Assurance Boot) modules as a Senior S/W Engineer.

Worked on development and debugging for drivers for the Mobile phones manufactured by Kyocera. Board bring-up was also a part of the job providing a lot of insight into the H/W associated with the embedded S/W development.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Nanyang Fellows Mba, Cgpa: 4.78/5

Activities and Societies: -TEDxNTU 2022 (speaker curator and speaker shadow) Nanyang Fellows MBA is a unique full-time MBA for mid-career.

Berkeley Nanyang Advanced Management Program, Organizational Leadership And Entrepreurship, A+ (5/5)

Activities and Societies: Pitching for a Start-up idea

Tsinghua Nanyang Senior Executive Management Program, Business/Managerial Economics, A- (4.5/5)

Digital Transformation, Economic growth, Innovation, Business Management from the lens of China and its tech, business and political.

B.E, Electronics And Communications, 80%

Isc, Science