Chandra Sekhar Nagarajan

About Chandra Sekhar Nagarajan

Engineering leader with 15+ years experience - 10+ years of technical and 5+ years of…

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Cisco

   Jan 2019 — Present

   Currently co-leading Nexus Cloud Initiative, responsible for building network observability functions (network insights/assurance) on AWS. Responsible for delivery of Nexus cloud @ Scale, scaling services, tuning service (cpu/memory), optimize performance, cogs for services, serviceability, monitoring. Reduce cloud engineering costs by over 50% with several engineering innovations. Delivered on convergence of two products (Nexus Insights and Nexus Assurance Engine). Drove backend/UI/delivery of converged product with cross functional team size ~ 100 Engineers /8Mgrs/3 Architects. Drove revenue of Nexus Insights/Assurance from 0 to 150M$ yoy in 5 yrs by focussing on customer, frequent software delivery and engineering excellence. Directly manage a team of 35+ Engineers/across 4 teams, supported by 3 Engineering Managers, 1 Architect, 1 Technical Lead Manager, provided mentorship, career development and promoted over 80% of organization in 3 years. Drove initiatives to improve code coverage by 20% & improve code quality (lower overall bugs/backlog) Technologies: Java, Python, C++, Spring, Mongo, Elastic, Micro services, Kubernetes, Kafka

Education

• University of Maryland

  MS, Computer Engineering

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  Buisness, Leadership, LEAD Program

Skills

• Asic
• Algorithm Design
• C++
• Distributed Systems
• Perl
• Debugging
• Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (Fpga)
• High Availability
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Unix
• Device Drivers
• Python
• Fpga
• Testing
• Algorithms
• Linux
• Embedded Systems
• Switches
• C
• Ethernet
• Software Development
• Tcp/Ip
• Data Center