# Krishnan Rajeswar

> Software Engineer at Nexthop AI

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

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer networking industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in Device Drivers, Python (Programming Language), Requirements Analysis.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nexthop AI
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Manufacturing Engineer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Bringup Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Staff Software Engineer @ Argo AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Argo AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Arista Networks
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020
I worked on designing and developing embedded platform diagnostics software to validate the control plane and data plane of various Aritsa Network products, to be used in large scale manufacturing.
I worked closely with the hardware team to bring up various switching chips from Broadcom, Marvell and Cavium on Arista platform. Developed drivers to communicate with different hardware components on the board, like FPGAs, PHYs, temperature sensors etc. Integrated SDKs from different vendors for respective chips and develop test suites using it to validate the functionality of the chips.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, California
Developed and Unit-tested the ‘breakout’ feature on NXOS Control Plane, to split 40G and 100G ports into 10G ports in Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch. Implemented failure handling and error recovery mechanism for the breakout feature.
Contributed to the design of hosting Cisco’s ACE load balancer as a virtual service running a RedHat KVM hypervisor, to be deployed on Nexus 7000 switch linecard.

### Intern @ Citrix Online
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Santa Barbara, California Area
Designed and developed a web-based tool using Ruby-on-Rails to serve as an authoritative source of circuit information along with associated contract details and provide easy visualization to help determine and optimize operational cost. Exposed RESTful APIs to access information from various repositories.

### Software Engineer II @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Developed and supported Service Modules on Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches.


## Education
### M.S in Computer Science
Columbia Engineering

### B.Tech in Computer Science
National Institute of Technology Calicut


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/krishnan-rajeswar-62922a31

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Last updated: 2026-04-11