About

Siva Yaragalla is a highly experienced Director of Software Engineering with over 17 years of industry experience in embedded networking software development in various engineering and management positions. He is a highly accomplished leader with proven success in building and leading multicultural, geographically distributed teams towards common goals by mentoring and engaging individuals with visionary leadership. Siva has a proven track record of holding teams together and driving through change, providing technical guidance in finding elegant and effective solutions for complex architectural and technical issues. Siva is recognized for his technical knowledge, project planning with attention to details, and outstanding execution to consistently deliver on time. He has a demonstrated ability to drive focused groups with high-performance individuals to do rapid prototyping of next-gen solutions. Siva has also proven his ability to lead and drive large, cross-functional initiatives that span divergent technical teams and multiple business units by fostering collaboration and teamwork. Currently, Siva is in a Senior Manager, Software Development role driving the development of distributed user space Network Stack to provide low latency and high-performance packet punt paths on the next generation switches. He specializes in strategic planning and execution, project management, coaching and mentoring engineers, building next-gen leaders by mentoring, coaching, and appropriate delegation, building and managing offshore teams, transitioning technology to offshore teams, organizational development, TCP/IP, UDP, Sockets, Layer4 Routing/Forwarding, WAN Opt, Distributed Network Stacks, User Space Network Stacks, Layer4 Virtualization, Routing Infra, MPLS TE, X.25, Frame Relay, OSI Transports, AFT-MNP, STREAMS Drivers & Protocols. Siva has worked with various companies in the past, including Streamsoft Inc as a Senior Software Engineer, and Cisco as a Senior Manager, Software Development. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Andhra University. With over 28 years of relevant experience, Siva is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a focus on infrastructure development.