# Vipul Jain

> Principal Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vipuljain

Experienced software leader with proven track record of delivering high quality, innovative products in area of Software Defined Networks, Metro Ethernet, VoIP Telephony, SONET/SDH ADM, Portable Protocols

Well versed in cross functional collaboration, technical leadership, full product lifecycle from conceptualization to delivery

Technologies:
- Software Defined Networking
- Application Centric Infrastructure
- Datacenter Networks
- Network Function Virtualization
- Distributed Systems
- Virtualization Technologies
- Containers
- IP Networking
- VLAN switching
- Metro Ethernet
- Voice/VIdeo over IP
- SONET/SDH
- Linux
- C/C++
- Python

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Aviatrix
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Working on Cloud Networking, SaaS services, Platform, Infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
- Delivered a Kubernetes operator to manage Kubernetes cluster node's performance parameters like hugeTLB, isolated CPU, RPS mask.
- Improved container security by reducing RBAC permissions, and creating rootless and distroless containers.
- Workload Identity integration with Anthos clusters
- Created anthosedge GCP APIs from scratch

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Reduced network modeling time from months to weeks
- Defined and delivered a new modeling framework

### Principal Engineer @ Insieme Networks (Currently INS BU at Cisco Systems)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading teams to drive innovation, build new software features and improve software quality for the Cisco ACI product line. Delivered many features on the platform:
- Hybrid cloud solution with Cisco ACI and Amazon AWS
- Hybrid cloud solution with Cisco ACI for private cloud
- Zero-touch discovery/provisioning
- Distributed DHCP server
- In-band/Out-of-band Management
- Firmware Management, Software Upgrade/Downgrade
- Multi-pod support
- DCI Support

### Sr Technical Lead @ Ericsson
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Principal Engineer @ Fujitsu Network Communications
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Leading the development of a distributed Carrier Ethernet switch  - switching data path, QoS, LACP, Ethernet SOAM (Y.1731/802.1ag), 802.1q, 802.1ad/802.1qbc(RCSI) and xSTP

Responsible for software architecture and design, project planning, technical leadership

### Technical Architect/Product Manager @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

### Team Lead/Technical Lead @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2001 – Jan 2007

### Software Engineer @ Hughes Software Systems (currently Flextronics Software Systems)
Jan 1997 – Jan 2001


## Education
### MBA
University of California, Davis

### MCA in Computer Science
Delhi University

### MCA in Master of Computer Science
Delhi University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vipul-jain-ba97501

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Last updated: 2026-04-12