Ashish Agarwal

About Ashish Agarwal

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE14+ years of experience in software design and development of next generation enterprise wireless controllers, Data Center Fabric systems and integrating product with cloud architecture, using established software engineering processes. Expertise in routing, switching, QoS, Infrastructure component development, protocol stack development and enhancement. EXPERTISE: Software Development for Head-End/Wireless Controller/BGW/VPNC using DPDK based x86 platform Software Development for L2/L3 switching and routing for Data Center Fabric solution for cloud scale asic. Software Development for EVPN Based VxLan solution for Data Center Fabric. Software Development of Infra component VLAN, BD, VNI, Port Index Manager with High Availability for highly scalable distributed system. TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE Protocols worked on: VxLAN, BGP, OSPF,IPV4,TCP,UDP, RIP, VLAN, Bridge-domain, Virtual Network Identifier (VNI),SRV6,OPEN-SSL,Wireless LAN Drivers, Firewall and SNMP Quality Of Service (QOS)- Classification L2/L3, ACL, Shaping, policing, LLQ, CBWFQ. Languages: C/C++/Go/Python Operating systems: Linux, IOS, NXOS, Unix. Vxworks. Tools: gdb, sniffer, ethereal, Adtech, Ixia, vCentre. DCNM, Router/Switches- Nexus 6500,Nexus N1kv. ASIC’s- Broadcom T2, T2 Plus Switching ASIC, Innovium, CISCO ASIC’S (10G/40G/100G/400g). Open Source- Vector Packet Processing (VPP), Robot Framework, gRPC, ProtoBuf, DPDK. MemoryDB- Redis CI/CD Pipeline. JIRA, ConfluenceMANAGEMENT EXPERTISE: Highly Awarded for many work and feature delivery. Leading and working with cross-functional team to deliver Data Center solution. Project Planning and providing time line for each feature. Taking Product Marketing Requirement and converting into customer solution. Providing Coaching and Mentor-ship to New hire and team members under me. Initiative to Improve Product Quality matrix, as well as helping in solving customer found defects. Training Customer Support Team for the new feature support coming in software releases.Awards and AchievementsOne of the 15 candidates chosen for Technical and Business Training program from a group of 10 thousand employees.Multiple Awards for delivering new features with quality software and in stringent Time Lines.

Experience

1. Technical Leader

   Cisco

   Apr 2025 — Present · US

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Executive Program in Business Management

  2006 — 2007

• Basaveshwar Engineering College, BAGALKOT

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1998

• Karnatak University

  BE, Electronic & Communication

  1994 — 1998

• Basaveshwar Engineering College (A), Bagalkote

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Skills

• Mentoring
• Switching
• Vxworks
• Linux
• Cisco Ios
• Udp
• Vlan
• Operating Systems
• Debugging
• Distributed Systems
• Bgp
• Nx-Os
• Ip
• Nat
• Qos
• Software Quality Assurance
• Data Center Architecture
• Rip
• Virtualization
• Quality of Service (Qos)
• Networking
• Routing
• Firewalls
• Code Review
• Ospf
• Data Center
• Embedded Systems