Prashant Srinivas

Experience

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  Cisco

  Feb 2001 - Apr 2012

  IP Tunnels - I was responsible for implementing features in, and helping evolve the software architecture of IP over IP and GRE over IP Tunneling in Cisco IOS. I worked on various control and software forwarding plane features, including the platform independent tunneling infrastructure for 6RD, OTV, WCCP, Mobile IP and VPNs of various flavors. I also worked on High Availability and ISSU support for IP tunnels in IOS. RFC 4364 based MPLS VPNS - I worked on various platform independent IP routing and MPLS features in Cisco IOS. These features were primarily in the VRF and routing infrastructure areas of IOS, as well as in BGP and MPLS extensions to BGP. I also worked on system level features like HA, ISSU and process restartability.

  • Technical Leader

    Nov 2008 - Apr 2012

  • Software Engineer

    Feb 2001 - Oct 2008
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  Arista Networks, Inc.

  May 2012 - now

  Software Engineer

  Led the development of unicast and multicast routing features including the IP RIB, sparse mode PIM, bidirectional PIM, OISM and MVPN.