# Bharath Channakeshava

> Data Center Infrastructure | Cloud | Security | Distributed Systems

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

Experienced engineering lead with a passion for software development at the intersection of networking and security with a proven and consistent track record in developing and delivering impactful products. Currently building a secure, scalable and mission critical SaaS product for full-stack visibility from bare-metal to applications and proficient in:

- Distributed systems
- AWS
- MongoDB
- Kafka
- Application development in Go/C++/C
- Micro-services
- Application Security
- Kubernetes
- Istio
- Ansible
- Datacenter and container networking

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Tech Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021
Delivered as a service, Intersight bridges applications and infrastructure, providing full-stack visibility from bare-metal servers, hypervisors, to Kubernetes, serverless, and applications. It is powered by Go(lang) based microservices that run as docker containers on a self hosted kubernetes cluster. The microservices interact over Kafka and using MongoDB for persistence. 

As a member of Intersight's Infrastructure team, I am responsible for design and delivery of many of the infrastructure components for consumption by application teams such as Kubernetes, (Hashicorp) Vault, Consul, Istio, etc. as well as provisioning many AWS services like ALB, WAF, Security groups, Auto scaling groups, S3, etc. through a framework (library) with specific focus on security.

### Tech Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
As a technical leader, I was responsible for punt/inject path handling of control plane protocols for Cisco's next generation Datacenter switching platform based on Broadcom Jericho (DUNE family) chipset. Designed & developed end-to-end control packet flow from packet reception at port to Supervisor including policing/rate limiting, QoS, buffer carving & VoQs.

### Software Engineering Sr. Manager @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA
As a Sr. Software Engineering Manager in Juniper’s Edge and Aggregation Business Unit (Service Provider), I was responsible for all aspects of platform software development for chassis/line card & fabric cards on MX240/480/960 product line. This included drivers for current and next generation MX line cards, drivers for High speed on-board and fabric SerDes and Fabric management software on MX.

### Technical Manager @ Firetide Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | Los Gatos, CA
As a technical manager, I was responsible for architecture/design/development for platform, data path & radio sub-systems for Firetide's Mesh router, Access point and Wireless controller.

### Technical Leader @ Firetide Inc.
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
As the first member of Firetide India team, I was responsible for leading the design and development effort of platform software, data path and radio features on Firetide's HotPort 7000 mesh routers, HotPoint 4000 access point and HotClient 2000 customer premises equipment.

### System Architect @ Motorola
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
As a System Architect in the Advanced Technology Group, I was actively involved with the definition of the product roadmap by leading several proof-of-concept exercises such as development of L2/L3 data path modules on Network processors like Wintegra® Winpath and Intel® IXP.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Force Computers
Jan 2000 – Jan 2005
As a senior developer/lead, I was responsible for reference software running on all of Force Computers embedded platforms including:
•	Development of RedBoot and u-boot boot loaders for a variety of platforms
•	VxWorks & Linux BSP development for a variety of platforms
•	Integration of software development kit (SDK) from vendors like Broadcom, Intel, etc.

### Software Engineer @ Lucent Technologies
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000
As one of the core members of the Lucent WaveLAN® and PubLAN® India team, I was responsible for the design and implementation of the bridging software, IAPP, filtering and address pool manager modules on Lucent’s Next Generation Access Point (NGAP).


## Education
### M.E in System Science and Automation
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

### B.E in Electronics and Communication (ECE)
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12