Darren Dukes

Darren Dukes is a Principal Engineer at Cisco, where they design and build solutions across the company's routing and switching platforms with a focus on Segment Routing (SRv6 and SR MPLS) software. With over 25 years of experience, Darren has developed solutions at all levels of the routing stack and has contributed to defining key protocols, including IKEv2 and SRv6 RFCs within the IETF. Prior to their role at Cisco, Darren held engineering positions at Ositech, Alcatel, and TimeStep, where they worked on various networking and security technologies.