Valliappan Palaniappan

Valliappan Palaniappan is a seasoned engineering professional with extensive experience in networking technologies, currently serving as a Principal Engineer at Arista Networks since July 2022. Prior roles include Principal Engineer at Pluribus Networks, where Valliappan focused on BCM Trident 4 chipset and VXLAN functionality, and a Technical Leader at Cisco, specializing in Industrial IoT switches. Previous positions at Juniper Networks, Brocade, HCL Technologies, and Wipro Technologies involved significant contributions to multicast support, OAM functionalities, packet forwarding, and design specifications for various networking hardware. Valliappan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Madurai Kamaraj University, awarded in 2003.