# Ayyappa Nuthalapati

> Sr Principal Engineer at Marvell Technology

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ayyappa

14+ years of work experience in Networking R&D.

## Work Experience
### Senior Principal Engineer @ Marvell Technology
Jan 2024 – Present

### Principal Engineer @ Marvell Technology
Jan 2020 – Present

### Principal Engineer @ Innovium Inc.
Jan 2021 – Present

### Sr Technical Lead @ Innovium Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States

### Technical Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Software Engineer @ Gigamon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara

### Sr. Staff Engineer @ Gigamon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Working on developing data plane forwarding features across various Gigamon platforms.
o Controlled Traffic Distribution on Trunks.
o Filtering QinQ packets using TCAM pipeline.
o Circuit-ID Tunneling for cross cluster connectivity.
o L2GRE/Vxlan Tunnel Termination.
o Trunk hashing improvements.
o Tool over-subscription improvements.
Working closely on Gigamon products using merchant silicon in delivering next generation
products.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ericsson
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Development and quality improvement for Fabric Management module in Smart Services Router family of products.

### Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Dell
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Santa Clara
Worked for development of Enterprise level switch based on FTOS architecture.
Implemented 802.1BR standard at control and data plane level.
Bring up FTOS based VM to execute control plane.
Peeling various threads of FTOS from a blob and convert into a process.
Involved in testing and development of SFP+ based line card for C-series campus switch.

### Module lead @ Wipro
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012
Sustenance Engineer:
Responsible for bug fixing, debugging in live customer networks, providing solutions for the problems such as
ping reachability issues, routing and multicast drop issues, Packet drops and addressing High CPU problems
in live edge/access/distribution/core networks. Analyzing and fixing issues raised by Regression team on the
Sustenance builds.

Development Engineer:
Worked in various development releases.
Responsibilities: Understanding Requirement, discussions with Marketing/Architecture team, designing and
writing Software Functionality/Design Specification and implementing the same. Written and Performed UT
and fixed issues reported during QA Product/System testing.


## Education
### B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics
Sri Venkateswara University

### Intermediate in Maths, Physics, Chemistry
Sri chaithanya Junior college


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ayyapn

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Last updated: 2026-04-12