Soumya Viswanathan

VP, Engineering @ Cisco

Country

United States

City

Santa Clara

Industry

Computer Networking

Skill

Networking, Kernel, Switches, Distributed Systems, Virtualization, Leadership, Engineering Management, Router Infrastructure, Operating Systems, Embedded Software, Routers, Cisco Technologies, TCP/IP, Software Development, Embedded Systems, IP, Multicast, Routing, Internet Protocol (IP), Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)

Experience

VP, Engineering

Cisco

2021-10 - Present · 5 yrs

Engineering leader in the Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group. Responsible for platform independent IOS-XR

Senior Director, Engineering

Cisco

2018-2 - 2021-10 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Engineering Management

Skyport Systems

2015-11 - 2018-1 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Skyport Systems was acquired by Cisco Systems in February 2018.

Senior Director, Software Engineering

Juniper Networks

2011-1 - 2015-11 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Responsible for PTX Platform Software and next generation Network Operating System development. Jan 2011 to Jan 2012: Responsible for Junos Kernel and Infrastructure. Junos runs on multiple platforms: switches, service cards, multiservice edge and core routers as well as virtualized routers. The technologies the team was responsible for included core OS (Virtual Memory management, CPU scheduling algorithms, file systems), Interface management, Networking Stack (v4, v6, transports) and Forwarding features (Route table/Next-Hop management, Link Aggregation, Multicast, VPLS, P2MP)

Senior Manager, Software Development

Cisco

1999-9 - 2010-12 · 11 yrs 4 mos

Managed a team of ~55 engineers/managers in geographically dispersed locations working in technologies such as Layer 2/3 infrastructure (interface management, link bundling, adjacency management, ARP), Applications (QoS, ACL, Netflow, Video Monitoring, Lawful Intercept, IP Header Compression, HSRP/VRRP) and tunneling protocols (GRE, L2TPv3, Biscuit) as well as Distributed Infrastructure such as Async IPC and Group Communications. Sep '99 to Mar '08: Managed teams working on L3 and L4 protocols (v4, v6, TCP, SCTP) and related applications, proprietary protocols for IOS-X, L3VPN, 6PE/vPE, NSR and incorporation of SCTP. Additionally managed cross-functional Scale and Architectural evaluation efforts