Sr Director, Head of Engineering (Software Dev & Test) -- PI Routing Software and Solutions for Service Provider (SP), Data Center (DC) and Enterprise (EN) Routing & Switching platforms, leading with industry best technologies in each domain, including but not limited to--EVPN Overlays over SR/MPLS/VXLAN etc, Tenant Routed Multicast, IP Fabric for Media (IPFM)--End to end Segment Routing/SRv6 solutions (with or without a Path Compute Engine --SP L2/L3 VPNs, mVPNs & Core Routing (BGP, ISIS/OSPF) and Multicast--Software Defined Access (SDA with LISP & EVPN Control Plane)--SDWANKey customers include ATT, Verizon, BT, FT, DT, DISH, Comcast, Charter etc), and Web / Hyperscalers (Google, MSFT, AMZN, Facebook etc). Exec sponsor for:--IOS-XR, NX-OS and IOS-XE Software Releases,--Innovative Routing Control Plane solution delivery --Critical Customer Engagements--Driving Innovations and Thought Leadership at IETFCisco PIONEER Awards:--Control plane solutions for NCS8000 platform (Pioneer Award Winner 2019)--Industry Leading Segment Routing solution (Pioneer Award Winner 2016), --Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) Controller based Routing solution --Industry's 1st EVPN VXLAN fabric solution (Pioneer Award Honorable mention 2018) for Massively Scalable Data Center, including L3 DCI support on ASR9K (XR) and N7K (NX) platforms),--IP Fabric for Media solution (Pioneer Award winner 2018)

Working at Brocade India, Enterprise IP group, as a Group Manager, Engineering in the Enterprise IP Software Development group, responsible for managing L2, Infrastructure, L3 & Security software development & an FVT (DevTest) team.Managed the above mentioned teams for delivery of complete products (Stackables -- ICX 6430 & ICX 6450, ICX6XXX & ICX7XXX as well as Chassis based Switches/Routers -- SX 800) from India Development Center, in a Linux based environment (a 1st for Enterprise IP in Brocade).

Routing Manager for IOS EIGRP, IOS RIP and partly IOS BGP/VPNs, along with Mobile IP, at NSSTG India, Cisco Systems, managing a team of around 15 Engineers, including 2 contractors.

Managed IOS BGP(IP Routing) Sw Dev Group, consisting of a team of 14 DEs spread across US and Europe, and a remote team of 6 DEs working from India. Delivered a host of important features/functionality along with performance/scale optimizations taking IOS BGP to the fore-front in the industry.Previously worked as a Sr Dev Engineer in BGP Routing (Mcast VPNs, VPLS, PE-CE optimization, GR/NSR), MPLS L3VPN (rfc 2547), VRF Infra MPLS LSC, MPLS Forwarding Groups. Before that I worked on SIP protocol, Cisco's Proprietory RPR protocol: SRP port to ESR C10K platform.

Worked on Call control, ISDN (Q.931) - SS7 (ISUP) interworking, MGCP for a Media Gateway switch build by ECI Telecom (Israel).