Kirti Prabhu

About Kirti Prabhu

My career as a software professional and an engineering leader spans deep and wide in management, product delivery, systems architecture, software design and development. My experience ranges across networking products (switches, routers), security products ( firewalls, authentication, authorization), embedded systems (systems and platform software). Track record of excellent execution, team building and retention. Delivered products within schedule and budget. Highlights listed below: • Entrepreneurial: Co-founded Rohati Systems (acquired by Cisco Systems). Concept to Series-A/B funding through acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. Involved in various facets.• Managed product delivery schedules, specification reviews, planning, budgeting, and resource. Recruited, developed, and reviewed staff. Directly managed geographically disparate teams. Built good teams from ground up several times.• Exercised cross functional leadership in teamwork, and initiatives.I have successfully delivered multiple cross- business unit products. Establish transparency into my group\'s operations.• Patents: Filed 13 patents with USPTO.• Datacenter services: Delivered Services architecture. Virtual Security Gateway for Nexus Rohati Systems’ access control solution, Cisco’s high performance virtualized firewall blade for Catalyst switches. This brought in $ 200M runrate.• Networking/Security: Delivered multiple Layer 2/3 switching and L4-L7 datacenter appliances, physical and virtual. Firewall services Module. L4-L7 application firewall.• Cloud: Architected and delivered “Cisco Intercloud” secure tunneling to provide Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution. • Interfaced with key customers on resolving their issues successfully and in timely manner

Experience

1. Engineering Manager, Systems Software

   NVIDIA

   Jun 2018 — Present

   Core boot firmware architecture, design and development.

Education

• Clemson University

  MS, Computer Science

• Pune Institute of Computer Technology, University of Pune

  BS, Computer Engineering

Skills

• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Network Architecture
• Virtualization
• Linux
• Enterprise Software
• Data Center
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Cloud Computing
• C
• Cisco Systems Products
• Ip
• Network Security
• Software Development
• Distributed Systems
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)