About

Murali Basavaraju is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in product development. As the Director of Engineering at Cisco, he has a consistent track record of creating strategies, executing plans, and delivering products on time with quality. Murali has engaged with Fortune 500 customers from requirements to adoption of products at scale, making him an expert in managing multi-billion dollar enterprise core products such as Cat6K/Cat9K development from inception to delivery and enabling migrations in the field. Murali is a hands-on leader who incubates, scales, and leads high-performance teams. He has championed employee engagement, including Inclusion & Diversity, Conscious culture, Hiring, Mentoring & Coaching leaders, and driving disruptive and transformational initiatives in the organization. He also mentors startups, drives CSR, and engages with communities. Murali has hands-on experience in building large distributed systems and architectural expertise in the areas of platform infra, high availability/redundancy, routing, switching, wireless technologies, assurance, programmability, telemetry, and serviceability. He is an expert in driving product adoption and customer experience. Prior to his current role, Murali worked as a Software Engineer at Hughes Network Systems and Motorola. He has a relevant experience of 26.70 years, during which he has worked as a Software Engineer, Product Manager, and Infra specialist. Overall, Murali is a technology leader with a proven track record of delivering high-quality products and leading high-performance teams. He is an expert in driving product adoption, customer experience, and employee engagement.