# Akshay Adhikari

> Software Engineer at Versa Networks

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akshayadhikari

Over 10 years of experience designing robust, high performance enterprise grade networking systems, with experience in designing and developing:
-- High performance multi-threaded network IO systems
-- Clustered systems, load balancing and high availability
-- TCP/IP networking 
-- Linux kernel software development
-- Unix system/network programming

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Versa Networks
Jan 2014 – Present

### Technical Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
+ Currently part of a core team driving the overall architecture and development of a wan optimization product. Key areas of contribution include
    -- Scalable asynchronous network IO
    -- Flow state management and data path plumbing
    -- TCP data path   
    -- Inter thread and inter process communication
     
+ Appnav: 
    -- Key contributor to overall architecture definition for Appnav, a solution for deploying scaleable and highly-available wan optimization service. 
    -- Co-led the design and development of the cluster membership and load distribution features
    -- Led the specification and design of high availability for the control and data plane

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
+ Responsible for developing and maintaining core networking infrastructure for a WAN optimization product in user space as well as the Linux kernel, including L2-L4 data path, flow state management and performance evaluation/optimization. 
+ Numerous design improvements and bug fixes to WCCP, Cisco’s network traffic interception protocol 
+ Feature development and bug fixes for various platform components
+ Live debugging and rapid resolution of customer issues in the field, including kernel crash analysis

### Member of Technical Staff @ Avaya Labs Research
Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 | Basking Ridge, NJ
+ Distributed Network Monitoring: A lightweight, distributed and fault tolerant network monitoring system. Contributed in the following areas:
 -- Active network monitoring test suite, and porting it to various hardware platforms.
 -- Cluster membership algorithms
 -- Operational topology discovery
 -- Network ‘blame attribution’ algorithms
 -- Library for platform independent exchange of data objects across the network, with C and python bindings

### Intern @ Avaya Labs Research
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 | Basking Ridge, NJ
+ Designed and implemented a device driver agnostic, on-the-fly, kernel send timestamping module for the Linux kernel, to timestamp outgoing UDP packets just before they are transferred to the NIC.
+ Contributed a patch to the CRIS branch of the Linux kernel to correct a non-monotonic time reporting problem.


## Education
### MS in Computer Science/Computer Networking
North Carolina State University

### BE in Computer Engineering
Savitribai Phule Pune University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshay-adhikari-56745a1

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Last updated: 2026-04-11