Arun Arunkumar

Vice President, Engineeering @Cisco

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for Data Center Switching Solutions for ACI and NX-OS Fabrics.

Senior Director, Engineering, Data Center Switching @Cisco

Senior Director, Engineering, Cloud Ready Networks @Cisco

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Director, SD-WAN @Cisco

San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering Director for SD-WAN solutions from Cisco

Senior Director, Cloud, Data Plane & Virtualization Technology @Cisco

Director Cloud SW Engineering @Cisco

San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering Director responsible for CSR 1000v as the primary component of Cisco's NFV solution to deliver Routing,VPN, Firewall, QoS and BRAS functions. Developed overall product as well as orchestration via OpenStack, RESTFul API's and Cisco Policy agents. Responsible for Cisco Cloud Connector strategy and products to enable enterprise networking equipment to interact with Cloud based services.

Director Engineering, Platforms @Cisco Systems

San Jose, CA

Responsible for platform software for complete range of Modular and Fixed configuration Branch office routers. Responsible for hardware and software architecture for next gen modular routers. Defined Architecture for 3rd generation of fixed configuration branch routers. Responsible for delivery of CSR (Cloud Services Router) - Virtual Secure Gateway for connectivity from enterprises to cloud. Owner of product from concept to General Availability.

Director, Engineering, Router Security and Services @Cisco Systems

San Jose, CA

Responsible for product delivery of IP Security, VPN and Layer 2 security technology in US and India. Led a team of engineers responsible for innovative VPN technologies. Established collaborative, productive working relationships with 4 Business Units to deliver a complete security solution spanning Layer 2 and 3. Transitioned ownership of technologies to India to improve overall effectiveness while continuing to improve team morale and develop new features in both locations. Revamped teams and reinvigorated the team with aggressive college hiring.

Senior Vice President, Product Development @Ensim Corporation

Oversee Product Development: - Product Management, Development, QA and Technical Publications. - Lead 130+ person team of Product Management, Technical Writing and Engineering with teams in multiple locations (US and India). Products related to Enterprise IT Automation, Service Provider SAAS infrastructure for orchestration, delegated multi-tier & multi-tenant management

Vice President, Engineering @Ensim Corporation

Developed Virtualization, Containers, App Store, SAAS infrastructure Responsible for Engineering as well as IT infrastructure in US and India

Sr Director, Engineering @3Com Corporation

Responsible for all product development (hardware and software) for Enterprise Wan / Wan Access Products Divisions. Developed Pathbuilder 4xx and 5xx products - Enterprise Routing, VPN and VoIP gateway.

Director, Engineering @3Com Corporation

Led a 3Com-wide initiative to implement a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) product family. Involved in system design, resource planning, marketing launch, sales force training and customer presentations. Author of L2TP over FUNI/AAL5 Internet Draft for PPP extension working group in the IETF.

Software Engineer @Bridge Communications

Software Engineer @Bridge Communications / 3Com

System Software Architect - reviewed all aspects of router design in system and protocol software. Work closely with the hardware team in defining and bring-up of new platforms. BGP4 Protocol Implementer - designed and implemented BGP4 for 3Com's WAN routers. Member of IETF BGP working group Lead Engineer TCP/IP - lead engineer for first generation 3Com multi-protocol router

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

BE · Chemical Engineering

New Jersey Institute of Technology

MS · Computer Science