About

Raj Srivastva is a highly experienced Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware with over 9 years of experience spanning across Service Provider, Datacenter, and Enterprise businesses. He is well-versed in L2/L3 switches, routers, firewalls, and other hardware platforms and protocols like TCP/IP, VxLAN, GENEVE, EVPN, VPWS/VPLS, OSPF/ISIS/BGP/PIM/RSVP/LDP/MPLS/Segment-Routing, SR-TE. Raj has extensive experience supporting big networks in service provider and data center environments, not just in designing but also diving into platform-level details for troubleshooting complex control plane and data plane issues. He is familiar with multi-vendor environments, including Brocade ICX/SLX/MLXe/VDX, Cisco ASR1K/ASR9K/NCS5500/NCS540/NCS560//ISR G1,G2,G3/CSR1000v/Nexus5K/7K/ToR, Juniper EX/MX, and Avaya SPBm. Raj also has experience with cloud technologies such as VMware ESXi, AWS, and Azure, integrating traditional hardware-based networking with virtual networking functions like NSX-V, NSX-T. He is passionate about open networking like SDN and virtual networking. In his current role at VMware, Raj is part of the NSBU Hybrid Cloud Engineering team, working on VMCoAWS, AVS & GCVE. Prior to this, he worked at Cisco as an SP Deployment and Escalation Engineer, where he gained expertise in Segment Routing, EVPN, XR Routing, and Platform Escalation POC. He has also worked at Extreme Networks as a Premier Network Consultant, where he worked on Brocade SRA and Avaya SPBm. Raj holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Haldia Institute of Technology. His tech stack includes software engineering, AWS, test, and Azure. With 10.70 years of relevant experience, Raj is a seasoned technical professional with a strong track record of delivering results in complex and challenging environments.