Leading several projects while collaborating across organizations such as Uber AI, Uber Maps, Uber Eats, Rides, Search and Ranking, Online marketplace, Fares.

AI and algorithms to improve Click Through Rate (CTR), marketplace efficiency, search results and ranking, feed ranking, ETA accuracy, Maps Route prediction, Fares prediction accuracy, user impressions, user engagement.

Came up with new ideas, converted them into projects and delivered impact.

Deep understanding of Uber algorithms and Uber distributed systems.

Wrote backend Java code in production, that handles millions of QPS.

AI and Machine learning at large scale.

Analyzed millions of trips using PySpark.

Architected highly scalable and highly available systems.

20x improvement in peak QPS handling

10x improvement in latency

10x improvement in high availability of APIs

Managed cross-business projects.

30+ Architecture and Design documents authored, which resulted in highly impactful projects.

Made several high profile presentations.

Advising several Generative AI startups. Large Language Models (LLM), Transformers, Attention, LangChain, Vector Embeddings, Deeplake, K-D Trees, Fine-tuning, ANN, Vector Database.

Chief technologist for several orgs.

My innovations led Cisco to enter new markets with $2 Billion TAM. For example:

o Invented consistent hashing in one clock cycle at Tbps. Led and delivered ITD based on this invention, which won several awards.

o Distributed Petabit load-balancer: Invented, designed, led and delivered industry’s first Petabit load-balancer. This is a massively scalable, distributed system based on my algorithms.

o Machine Learning at scale: Invented, designed, led and delivered iCAM. Industry’s first machine learning solution, natively on data center switch.

o Catena: Invented, designed, led and delivered Catena. It is a Security, network segmentation, cloud orchestration, virtualization and secure application chaining solution.

o Built a microservice based application using open-source tools Kafka, InfluxDB times series database, Docker and Grafana.

Received Cisco Innovation Award. This is a top award among 70,000 employees at Cisco.

Worked closely with 250+ customer companies and 500+ sales engineers.

Started several new projects based on my inventions, and delivered these products to market.

Won three Best of Interop ITX Awards in 2017. These awards are like the Oscars of Networking Industry.

Won the 2017 Light Reading award for the Most Innovative Telecom Product.

See my blogs here: https://blogs.cisco.com/author/samarsharma

Led 15 projects across multiple business units. These business units had 1000+ team members. Demonstrated expertise in setting strategic directions, managing large engineering teams, advising executives, creating cross-company partnerships, building relationships with customers, mergers & acquisitions, presenting in industry forums, motivating sales teams, recruiting top talent, creating roadmaps, go to market strategy, focusing on financials.

Recruiting: Attracted the highest number of University graduates, among all managers

Started several new projects and won awards.

Led projects across various orgs such as Security BU, Application Delivery BU, WAN Acceleration BU, Data Center BU, Platform Independent OS team, Service Provider BU, Enterprise BU, Network Application Monitoring BU.

Part of the founding team, that grew the company from 5 members to 350 members. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems for $1.3 Billion.

Led several innovative projects in the area of storage virtualization, distributed file systems, network operating system, low latency packet processing, ASIC design.