# Santosh kumar Cheler

> Principal Engineer and Technical Architect

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/santoshkumarcheler

Principal Engineer and Architect at Cisco Systems

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Built and led RUM product line of AppDynamics on Cisco Observability Platform.

### Dist. Tech. @ HPE Aruba Networking
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020
Cloud based network management.   Hybrid cloud platform lead.
Earlier: (Android)mobile applications management (MAM), and mobile device management(MDM)

### Architect @ Tibco Software
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Platform for integrating 3rd party apps in Tibco's enterprise social networking product.

### Engineering Manager & Lead Technical Architect @ HealthHiway
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Led the technology efforts

### Chief Architect & Founding CEO @ AuthWave Technologies
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
Co-founded AuthWave Technologies, a consumer security software startup in Bangalore. We built mobile based authentication products for financial portals, and were funded by New Enterprise Associates (Blue-chip silicon valley VC firm) and Angels.

### Engineering Manager @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Managed a team of 8 engineers for execution of release deliverables out of India office.  Led the Windows Vista compliance of all Windows components in the product.

### Member of Technical Staff @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006
Developed windows virtual desktop using Microsoft Detours API for enterprise data leak prevention during remote access;  and worked on few other feature enhancements to the SSL-VPN product.  Extensive experience working with US engineering teams.

### Software Developer @ eBizPortals
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003
Worked on developing business aggregation services using java web-services.

### R&D Engineer @ CMC Ltd
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999
Worked on performance improvement of CMC's fingerprint matching system.


## Education
### M Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

### B Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
Sri Venkateswara University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12