About

Raghavendra Narayanappa is an Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco Systems with over 15 years of professional experience in the Telecom Industry. He has held multiple roles as a Software professional, including Technical Lead, Module Owner, Designer, and Programmer. Raghavendra is a subject matter expert on mobile packet core data networks, with a deep hands-on experience in mobility-management and session-management aspects. He has a good understanding of 3GPP protocol and system architecture. Raghavendra has 5GS – SMF and EPS-Interworking product development experience in a cloud-native environment and has delivered end-to-end Non-standalone (NSA) with 5G NR solution in 4G LTE packet core network. He also has LTE – MME product development experience and S4-SGSN and SGSN product development experience. Raghavendra is proficient in Go Programming language based product development and C language based product development over Linux. He has good knowledge of C++ as an object-oriented programming language. Raghavendra is excellent in applying Agile Software development methodology for product development and has strong trouble-shooting and problem-solving skills. He is an excellent team player with good interpersonal and communication skills, as well as an individual contributor. He has guided teams and oriented new-hires with the work. Raghavendra has worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer at Cisco Systems in the past. He has expertise in Cloud-Native Session Management Functionality (SMF) and EPS-Interworking in 5G Data Network, Non-Stand-Alone (NSA) support with option-3x in 4G Data Network, Mobility Management Entity (MME), and Gn-SGSN and S4-SGSN products. He is an expert in debugging critical live network issues reported by various service providers. Raghavendra holds an M.Tech degree in Computer Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Kalpataru Institute of Technology, Tiptur. Overall, with 18.87 years of relevant experience, Raghavendra Narayanappa is a highly skilled Engineering Technical Leader with expertise in mobile packet core data networks, product development, and Agile Software development methodology.