# Swaminathan Narayanan

> Member Of Technical Staff at Stealth Mode Software Startup

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

Around 18 years  experience in SQA  involving router/switching products right from early stage. Experience in  feature/system testing, customer proof of concept, leading teams, automation design/implementation, release management.  Experience in working with smaller teams / startups (Arista, Insieme)

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ AMD
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Principal Engineer @ Pensando Systems
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior QA Engineer @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Principal Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017
•	Joined as one of the early QA engineers & handled the Layer 3 features on modular and fixed systems
•	Hands on leadership in delivering Layer 3 features on 35+ HW platforms (Top of the rack & Modular platforms) using both Merchant silicon as well as in house ASICs 
•	Managed a team of 15 engineers and completely owned the L3 routing + forwarding functions for N3k and N9k product series
•	Experience in handling Customer Proof of Concepts, Customer Escalation 
•	Authored white paper and Cisco Live speaker for Layer 3 Forwarding deep dive session on Nexus products
•	Have around 8 approved patents

### Software Engineer @ Arista Networks, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara,California
Customer Proof Of Concept
System Testing

### Technical Leader @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012
Experience in feature and system testing of high end datacenter switch (Nexus 7K)
Lead the forwarding test team for F1/F2 series of line cards
Built system test automation framework

### Senior QA Engineer @ NetDevices
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Bangalore, India

### Lead Engineer @ HCL Technologies
Jan 1998 – Jan 2005


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)
St. Peters Engg. College

### University of Madras


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/swaminathan-narayanan-8949321

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Source: https://flows.cv/swaminathan
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Last updated: 2026-04-12