About

Pooja Dashottar is a Software Engineer III at Cisco with 4 years of industry experience. She specializes in C, C++, OOPs, Data Structures, Operating Systems, and Networking. Pooja is well-versed in network technologies, including modules of Cisco IOS-XE Infra and network layer protocols such as PPP/PPPoE, L2TP, and yang data modeling language. She is proficient in using tools such as VS, GIT, GDB debugging, Linux, and Windows systems. In her current role, Pooja works closely with customer support on queries and escalations. She designs and develops features required for customers and coordinates with multiple dependent teams to provide solutions. Pooja is also responsible for feature documentation and actively participates in Cisco events. She enjoys meeting new people, learning their perspectives, and collaborating with them. Before her current position, Pooja worked as a Software Engineer II at Cisco, where she developed various components of Cisco IOS-XE Infra, including PPP, L2TP, interface infra, yang data modeling, CLI compilers, and Smart Licensing. She was responsible for troubleshooting various customer critical problems and was an active participant in Cisco hackathons and ideathons. Pooja was also a conference speaker at SecCon APJC 2020 on QUIC protocol and a core member of Cisco's socials team, responsible for organizing fun events across Cisco. Pooja has also worked as a Software Development Engineer at Reve Systems, where she built a data backup application from scratch for local and remote backup of files. She also built a backup manager to manage multiclient backed-up files for Win and Linux machines and a URL parser to extract its domain name for building URL blacklisting and whitelisting. Pooja holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Technology from IIEST, Shibpur. She completed her High School (Class 12) from Guardian and Guide School and her Secondary School (Class 10) from Delhi Public School. Pooja's relevant experience in software engineering, infra, and iOS is 5.20 years.