About

Vishnu Vardhan is an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer with a strong background in Enterprise Switching/Platform-Device Driver Development. He is skilled in Switching, Cisco Systems Catalyst Products, L2/L3 protocols, Embedded systems, and Wireless Networking. Vishnu holds a Bachelor's degree focused on Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Vishnu has worked on various projects associated with Enterprise Switches, including Uplink Bring up of 10G/25G/40G FRU able Modules, Board bring ups, End to End driver implementations for different Hardware components such as PHY, MAC, NUG, SERDES, and more. He has in-depth knowledge of Doppler packet flow and a good understanding of L2/L3 protocols. Vishnu has dealt with some of the most critical customer issues associated with state machine with respect to Packet drops, Packet corruption, LinkUp, Peer discovery, and more. Vishnu is a good team player and collaborates with cross-functional teams such as Serdes/Vendor/Asic Teams, etc. He has solid expertise in different HW projects associated with Embedded systems and has interfaced with 3rd party devices such as printers, card readers, etc. Vishnu has implemented suitable drivers to establish I2C communication with relevant processors on different HW entities such as HSM2 boards, Raspberry Pi 2B, etc., to optimize business transaction solutions on Kiaosk machines. Apart from this, Vishnu has good hands-on software projects associated with Android Programming. He has built applications like Real-Trans Inspector, Scheduler view, etc., to ease the life of the user performing Property Verifications. Vishnu's specialties include Device Driver Programming - PHY, MAC, NUG, SERDES, etc., FW Development and Integration, Network software development, Automation using Py-ATS, Deep end Traffic Testing using software tools such as SPIRENT, IXIA, Embedded systems, Kernel Development, and configurations, Android Programming. Currently, Vishnu is working as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Cisco. He has previously worked as an Android Developer at Alti-Source and has also done a Summer Internship at Yalamanchili International Pte Ltd. Vishnu completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT in 2017. Vishnu is interested in pursuing challenging projects associated with different Hardware/Software. He is effective at debugging, innovative ways of problem-solving, smart strategic thinking