• Over 16.5 years of Technical Leadership in CISCO’s routing and switching software and hardware products • Technical Leadership on CISCO’s flagship software (IOS-XR, IOS, NXOS and NG-XR) for more then a decade with hands on experience in key infrastructure and protocol areas. • Experienced Technology Lead with proven track record of delivering complex, high performance and high availability solutions. • Key lead and point of contact in enterprise (Cat6k Cat5k), service provider (CRS, NCS6k, ASR9k) and data center (N7k, N6k) products • Virtualization and Next Generation IOS software lead • Extensive experience operating in aggressive mode taking several products and services thru full lifecycle, working across test, development, technical marketing and deployment teams.

Principal Engineer @ From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Senior Technical Leader @ From September 1997 to Present (18 years 4 months) Technical Leader @ From 1997 to Present (18 years)

MS @ MS, Computer Science @ University of Houstan From 1996 to 1997 MBA @ MBA @ University Of Lucknow From 1994 to 1996 Venkat Garigipati is skilled in: Routing, Routing Protocols, IPv6, Cloud Computing, QoS