Dharanish Narasappa

Dharanish Narasappa has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Dharanish currently serves as a Solutions Architect at Versa Networks, starting in February 2021. Before joining Versa Networks, Dharanish worked at Cisco for 13 years. Dharanish held the role of Lead Network Security Engineer from October 2015 to February 2021. Prior to that, they were a Senior Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco from May 2008 to October 2015. Before their tenure at Cisco, Dharanish worked at Intel Corporation as a Lead Engineer from December 2005 to May 2008. Dharanish also gained experience as a Senior Software Engineer at Cyberwerx-Cisco from April 2004 to November 2005. Dharanish began their career at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise as a Software Engineer, where they worked from June 2000 to March 2004.

Dharanish Narasappa attended UBDT College of Engineering, where they obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication. Dharanish also has additional certifications, including Versa Certified Secure SD-WAN Administrator from Versa Networks, Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Security (CCIE-S) from Cisco, Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Service Provider (CCIE) from Cisco, and Understanding Design, deployment for Cisco Internetworking and Security Solutions from Cisco. The specific months and years of when these certifications were obtained are not provided.