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Excited to be part of a team of visionaries re-defining the Networking industry and more ! Given the power of P4 and programmability and our ASICs, we are revolutionizing the way networks are built and deployed. The use cases for P4 and Tofino extend beyond traditional networking and we are blurring the line between what gets done in Compute and what gets done in the Network !

Stealth Mode startup focused on delivering Innovation through SaaS model in IoT leveraging Smart Sensors, Gateways and Cloud based Analytics and Machine Learning technologies.

Cisco Cloud Networking and Services Group (CNSG) delivers innovative Networking and Network Services solutions for the Virtualized, Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud deployments with a portfolio deployed by over 13,500 customers. Responsibilities include P&L, Engineering, Product Management, Documentation functions with a team of 300+ employees across US and India.o Conceptualized and Evangelized Cisco's Hybrid Cloud Strategy with Intercloud Fabric (ICF) as a foundational technology and solution for Cisco Intercloud. Developed an ecosystem of 65+ Cisco Powered Intercloud Providers and Storage and security vendors.o Co-founded, incubated and delivered industry's first and most successful third party virtual switch and only multi-hypervisor virtual switch to date (Nexus 1000V) with less than 30 engineers (incubated with 3 engineers)o Co-Created VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible LAN) in collaboration with VMware, Citrix and Red Hat and shipped the industry's first VXLAN solution on Nexus 1000Vo Brought to market Cisco Virtual Application Cloud Segmentation (VACS) Services, CSP 2100, Nexus 1000V on Microsoft Hyper-V, Nexus 1000V on KVM / Openstacko Sponsored the acquisition of Virtuata and brought Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) to market.o Incubated and brought to market Nexus 1010 / Nexus 1100, an appliance for hosting Virtual Services Appliances, managed through network admin friendly user-interface and capabilitieso Responsible for the UCS I/O Engineering including Virtual Interface Card (VIC) on UCS that delivered the UPT (Universal Pass Through) and SR-IOV capabilities o Incubation of the Application Oriented Networking (AON) Business Unit which delivered a XML based message router functionality to the market.o Architecture and Design of EARL8 - forwarding engine for the Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 7000 switching platforms with L2/L3 switching capabilities with advanced traffic management, security, visibility and complex L4-L7 hardware assist capabilities.

SAJ Systems had the goal of delivering an application centric, network based XML translation and message processing system to enable easier application integration mechanisms. Given the dry funding climate in 2002, the project was not pursued further.

Desana Systems, a Sequoia and Mayfield company successfully delivered intelligent, content aware L4-L7 switch with traffic management and resouce management capabilities. As a Co-founder and Director of software, accomplishments include growing the company from 8 to 120 employees, significant contributions and influence on the architecture of the hardware and software aspects of the product as well as execution on a variety of software subsystems ranging from low-level embedded software to tcp proxy functionality to transaction recognition on HTTP/XML content as well as policy enforcement on transactions

Managed a variety of projects delivering high performance L4-L7 services with the Catalyst 6000/6500 platforms including Integrated IOS Server Load balancing (software), Catalyst Web Switch (pizza box), High performance L4-7 services blade for Cat6K (service blade) as well as hardware acceleration capabilties in the Cat 6K ASICs as well.A key architect for the L3 switching capabilities on Catalyst 6500Developed ATM LAN Emulation Software as well as ATM->Ethernet hardware modules with Kalpana series of switches

Design and development of software related to the ATM LAN Emulation, X.25, Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) and TCP/IP technologies for the service providers and enterprise customer market segments

Design and development of software related to X.25 networks, X.400 and the OSI reference model. Worked closely with Allied Signal Aerospace Company, Kansas City in GOSIP migration

Design and development of software related to SCSI and Serial Communication drivers in Unix