Experienced Engineering lead and Architect with a proven track record of delivering complex and cutting edge products in Networking, Servers, Cloud Infrastructure, OpenStack, SDN, IOT gateway, IOT cloud platform and SaaS domains. Certified AWS Solution Architect. • Innovative, leader with hands-on experience in leading architecture, design and development of complex products.• Proven experience in successfully leading large cross functional organizations including software development engineering, Test/QA, and program management. • In-depth experience in software engineering of Switching, SDN controller Routing, Enterprise Servers, embedded systems, and Virtualization. • Provided architectural leadership for Cisco’s flagship routing and switching line of products.• Owner of numerous approved US patents in networking domain and author of multiple RFCs (RFC4717, RFC4447, RFC4906, RFC3985). Contributed at various standard bodies including ITU-T, MPLS forum etc.• An adaptable leader with International experience of leading teams in Silicon Valley and India. Very good experience in setting up, operationalizing and managing the large local and offshore teams. • Hands on experience in modern software development tools including Python, PowerShell, Java, XML,Rest API etc.Specialties:Data Center Switching(Cisco Nexus), IOT gateway, IOT Cloud platform, X86 Server platform (UCS), OpenStack, SDN, Server Virtualization, NFV orchestration, Analytics, SaaS, Enterprise Server BIOS, Enterprise Server BMC, Server deployment tools, Server Management Software, Core and Edge Routing(CRS), MPLS, High Availability, FC and FCOE products, Large scale software development, Low latency switching, Middle ware for application acceleration. Kubernetes container orchestration, DevOps tools like jenkins, git etc.