Shekar Iyer is a Director of AI at Cisco. They possess expertise in distributed systems, software development, agile methodologies, scalability, java and 15 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "Shekar impresses me with both his in depth knowledge of Lucene/Solr technology and his ability to innovate around it. During my tenure at Cisco, Shekar developed new scalable implementations of very complex semantic treatments supporting Cisco expert search engine, from snippet generation to smart cache based solutions. His reputation rapidly grew beyond our business unit and Shekar was asked to help design an enterprise scale video on demand solution for another business unit. Shekar also brought with him best practices of software development that helped improve the quality of the expert search solution. Shekar is also a great team player and has been a great mentor for our more junior engineers. He will be a great asset to any team he chooses to join."