# Surya Kocherlakota

> Technical Leadership

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

Accomplished Technical Leader with passion and experience in the architecture, design, development of system software for Telecom and Datacom products. Experience encompasses developing platform infrastructure software for control applications, management applications, data plane for distributed, high scale service provider, enterprise, cloud systems. Handled entire product development life cycle for routers (core, edge, virtual), switches, firewalls (physical & virtual), malware protection systems based on Linux (RHEL8), QNX and VxWorks with Python, C, C++, Java, Shell scripting (BASH/ASH/CSH) as the underlying programming languages.

Areas of expertise:
 - Infrastructure for distributed, cloud computing
 - Network Security, Firewall.
 - HA Infrastructure - ISSU, Checkpointing, Replication services, High Scalability
 - Virtualization, NFV, Open Standards
 - Solve System Software Design and Architecture challenges in distributed, cloud computing domains.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Algorized
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Human Machine Interaction. Industrial, Automotive & Consumer Robotics.

### Co-Founder @ Stealth Mode
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Sr Technical Leader @ Cisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Milpitas, California
SD-WAN

### Principal Engineer @ Infinera
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California
Platform/Infrastructure software development

### Principal Engineer @ Ericsson
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
S&T. IPOS Architecture team.

### Sr. Staff Engineer @ FireEye
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Milpitas, CA
Web Malware Protection System

### Principal Software Engineer @ F5 Networks
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Jose
DNS, SIP Firewall, Dynamic White/Black lists, User Identity.

### Technical Leader @ Cisco
Jan 2001 – Jan 2012
Cloud Computing Infrastructure:
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•	Design, development of the client (Agent) side of implementation for Cloud Provisioning Orchestration
•	Architect framework for Control Point HA, replication.

Router Infra:
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Developed embedded infrastructure software based on Cisco's IOS-XR OS for Core, Edge routers (CRS1, ASR 9K, C12K).

Specific projects that I designed, developed:
 - Framework for ISSU Orchestration
 - Shared memory buffer pool allocator for Async-IPC
 - Multicast based replication infrastructure
 - Logical Router Daemon
 - HA infrastructure

Switch Infra:
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Developed embedded infrastructure software for Cisco's Carrier class ATM switch MGX 8850/8950. C/C++, VxWorks.


Specific projects that I designed, developed:
 - Framework for 1:N (N+1) warm redundancy for voice gateway service modules
 - Framework for 1:N cold redundancy for Router Processor service modules
 - Shelf, card management, DB upgrades, switchovers (hot/warm/cold redundancy), Shelf nativity framework


## Education
### B.S in ECE
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

### M.S in CS
Jawaharlal Nehru University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/suki2018

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Last updated: 2026-04-01