Seasoned Enterprise Networking and Telecom professional with more than 18 years combined experience in the industry. Have worked in different types of companies from startups, mid-size to large OEMs. Possess excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and problem solving skills to communicate complex technical ideas to customers, peers, and management. Unique talent to carve novel products/strategies that enhance the value of existing products and services; while consistently advancing new innovation. Ability to forge relationships and build consensus at multiple levels within and outside the organization.Specialties: Excellent knowledge of data-center, enterprise and telecom networks, protocols and architectures. Have led SDN technology and research initiatives at Dell since 2010. Focus towards helping develop and deploy new technology and infrastructures that solve real customer problems.Current Interests: With the emergence of technologies like SDN/NFV and transition to the cloud/cloud-like operations, there are no easy shortcuts and legacy architectures are not sufficient or do not scale. We are at yet another inflection point and there are many opportunities for innovation in this space. My current work and interests are in designing new network systems and architecture for Cloud/Cloud-like operations that are transitioning to DevOps. Also interested in bringing continuous network analytics as a crucial role in building systems for cloud-like operations. Yet another problem plaguing networks is the middle-box sprawl. Getting rid of middle-boxes while keeping the functionality is a holy grail but achievable through a 'think-different' approach.