Praveen Patnala
Sr. Director, Cisco (ex Co-Founder, VP Engineering Valtix)
- Role
- Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Praveen Patnala
I am a Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco. Cisco acquired my startup Valtix, where I was the Co-Founder and VP Engineering, a cloud security company. Prior to that, I was an engineer in Google Cloud Platform.I have worked at Andiamo (largest Cisco spin-in), before joining as an early employee at BloomReach and then LaserLike. Worked on infrastructure, security, networking, storage systems, web infrastructure, analytics, crawling.Patents - 22 in total - 9 approved, 13 pending.Enjoy engineering execution, mentoring people and leading engineering teams. Deep-down, a hands-on individual contributor.
Experience
Senior Director of Engineering
Apr 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Cisco acquired Valtix and the product is now offered as Cisco Multicloud Defense. We launched it within a record 2 months post acquisition at Cisco Live 2023.Leading the engineering team for Cisco Multicloud Defense.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
B. Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
1994 — 1998
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M. S, Computer Science
Skills
- Hadoop
- Distributed Systems
- Scalability
- Big Data
- Mapreduce
- Algorithms
- Cloud Computing
- Python
- Java
- Machine Learning
- Linux
- Agile Methodologies
- C
- Software Development
- Saas
- Enterprise Software
- Start-Ups
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