Vinay Venkataraman is a Angel Investor & Senior Technical Leader at Cisco Systems at Cisco. He possess expertise in xml, microsoft sql server, agile methodologies, c#, asp.net and 7 more skills. He is proficient in English. Colleagues describe him as "I had the pleasure of working with Vinay from the technical support and product management side of a SaaS product at Cisco Umbrella. As an engineer - Vinay is someone I can rely on to bring the big picture and the small details together and get a solution or project moving. For all topics in and around his team, I could come to Vinay for a solution. During my time working with him, he was also a core resource for his entire team. So core, he regularly gets looped into adjacent projects to consult or take over a high priority escalation due to his broad ownership and expertise. He was key in driving several net new products into our solution, expanding into customer journeys that covered over 1/4 of our entire user base (6M+ endpoints deployed!) with innovative hackathon projects that were so impactful - the company picked the projects up full time. As a PM, Vinay is a great resource and is on top of his technical engineering tasks and at connecting them to our product's priorities and the core customer needs. While I may have been halfway around the world physically - he is a close teammate and I would work with him again any time." and "I had a pleasure of working with Vinay for 4 and half years on Cloud security. He is a seasoned technical leader; I’d say an architect. His dedication and commitment were marvelous and motivated the team day in day out. To call out one such occasion, we had to fix a customer problem by implementing local caching and without any formal assignment, Vinay designed and coded it entirely by working over a weekend. His customer obsession and passion for quality are nonpareil. He was instrumental in various quality improvement initiatives and drove them to success every time. His patience and leadership skills helped in resolving issues related to multi-vendor scenarios. Often, he patiently worked with other vendor companies to root cause the issue and helped them in fixing their issues. He is a great mentor and I had seen junior engineers succeeding under his guidance. He is a great asset to the team and the company, and I’d love to have him in my projects any time. A worthy mention, he is a nice photographer too  His photo contributions glorified the team events."