Prasanna Venkatesh

Prasanna has over 20 years of industry experience, largely in embedded systems design and development for the computer networking domain.

He is an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering B.Tech.Honors graduate from NIT Karnataka, one of India's premier engineering institutes. He initially served as a Research Scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore, for five years, where he designed and developed several embedded systems and helped the teams to transition from programming in assembly level to developing complex embedded systems space applications in high level languages like C and PL/M.

He later entered the private industry to work at a startup, specializing in Networking software development, where he worked with a team of very talented engineers to develop and deliver a Multi-protocol Router with LAN and WAN interfaces, the first of its kind in India, in record time. Subsequently in 1995, he joined Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA and has since worked as lead engineer, on several of Cisco's flagship products such as Catalyst 6000 and the Nexus 7000 switch/router platforms and network appliance blades. His specialization has been in low level h/w platform bring up, ASIC device drivers, developing proprietary flash file systems, and network management protocols like SNMP.

His current interests are to develop industrial applications and solutions using best of breed IoT and Big Data Analytics technologies.