# Venkatesh Solaiyappan

> Software Engineer @ Nexthop.ai

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/venkateshsolaiyappan

Experienced Sofware Developer with proven track record of design, execution and delivery of high quality solutions.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nexthop AI
Jan 2025 – Present
Exploring the new domain.

### Principal Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States

### Senior Tecnical Leader @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2022

### MTS @ Pi-Coral, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Senior Technical  leader @ Cisco Systems
Jan 1997 – Jan 2013 | San Jose, CA
- System Lead of NCS6K – Multi-chassis Release
- Key contributor of NCS6K - ISSU release.
- Key contributor as a lead role in  NCS6K product single chassis delivery.
- Lead the team in design, development of key components like clustering in NCS6K-Admin plane.
-  Lead Engineer of the "cisco adcontrol" module in 7600 platform.
- Key contributor of S/BC Implementation in Cisco CRS-DRP Module.
- Lead the services development in XBlade of Cisco 12000 router.
- Key contributor in CISCO MGX series: RPM-PR, RPM-XF development and maintenance.
- Key contributor in CISCO Wan series switches: BPX/IGX Feature Enhancements and    
   maintenance

### Software Engineer @ Teloquent
Jan 1996 – Jan 1997 | Billerica, MA
Designed and Developed the following features of Distributed Call Center (DCC) sofware of Teloquent.

- Control Message Carrier between Phone server and Client  using TCP/IP stack.
- Phone server Profile creation and Maintainence.

### Software Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 1995 – Jan 1996 | Bangalore, India
Worked on the following assignments in HP-Unix Kernel.

- Involved in porting of Mentat’s TCP/IP tack to mainstream HP-UNIX releases.
- Designed and developed Network Test Environment Tool set. 
- This tool set provides the infrastructure for the testers to test HP-UX's TCP/IP stack.

### Software Engineer @ Baysoft
Jan 1995 – Jan 1996


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
College of Engineering, Anna University

### University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/venkatesh-solaiyappan-382a905

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Last updated: 2026-04-05