# Nikhil Bhatia

> Staff Software Engineer, R&D ZPA

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

Responsible, approachable, and flexible professional with experience in all stages of software development with emphasis on delivering high quality products on specification and schedule. As an individual contributor, producing architecture and product quality code for high performance large-scale networking and system management products

Programming Languages/OS - C/C++, Linux, Cisco IOS
- Extensive experience in Networking, TCP/IP, GTP, HTTP, Internet Security core elements IPSec, IKEv1, IKEv2, DMVPN, FlexVPN, GetVPN
- Development experience on Linux netfilter hooks, Protocol Buffers, YANG modelling, Confd, YumaPRO, RESTCONF, NETCONF
- Good understanding of multi-threading and IPC
- Protocol experience in GRE, ARP, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, NHRP, OSPF, EIGRP
- Knowledge on development tools like dockers, git, python, awk, bash, virtual box, iptables, gdb, valgrind, iperf, tcpdump, wireshark, curl
- Linux TCP/IPv4 stack modification for achieving maximum throughput over a given bandwidth
- Keen desire to learn and use new technologies

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Zscaler
Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States

### Principal System Engineer @ Aricent
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Senior Technical Leader @ Aricent
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Gurgaon, India

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India

### Software Engineer @ Sonus
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | India

### Senior Software Engineer @ Aricent
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Gurgaon, India


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Amity School of Engg and Tech

### Ramjas School Pusa Road

### St Marks Janak Puri


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nbhatia911

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Last updated: 2026-04-12