# Jayakrishnan Chathu

> Staff Software Engineer at VMware

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jayakrishnan

Experienced Principal Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Network Protocols, Operating system. System programming, Network security, distributed systems, SDN and cloud native solutions.

I am a passionate about using my expertise to design/develop  challenging and innovative product/service  solutions.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Distributed Firewall, Application Detection, Network security.

### Principal Software Engineer @ AppDynamics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Network performance monitoring. Infrastructure Monitoring, Distributed systems.

### Technical Leader @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California, United States
Linux Kernel, Enterprise switches, SDN, ACI, Kernel drivers, Networking protocols, Network monitoring, Network performance management.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino,CA.
WiFi Stack, WAN Stack, End user device network performance optimization, Network protocols, Embedded systems.

### Senior Software Engineer. @ Checkpoint software technologies
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
Linux kernel, Kernel porting. Network performance analysis, Lockless fast path Accelerated Network Data processing.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Nokia Inc
Jan 2004 – Jan 2009
Device drivers, Kernel porting, Application network performance analysis. IDS/IPS, VPN. Embedded systems. Carrier Grade Firewall/VPN appliance. Network protocols.

### Software Engineer @ Nokia India
Jan 1999 – Jan 2004
Small office security appliance, VPN, Firewall, Networking. Layer 7 Application porting.


## Education
### Sankara Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12