Dhananjay Awaji
Sr.Manager Software Development at Start up
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDhananjay Awaji is a results-driven senior software leader with 9 years in managerial roles and over two decades of hands-on experience across networking, firmware, and semiconductor systems. At Cisco he leads complex cross-geography programs delivering switching, routing and SOC-integrated software and hardware, with deep expertise in Linux kernel, device drivers, PCIe/FPGA/optics interfaces, and fast-path networking (L2/L3, MPLS, SD-WAN). He has a proven track record of rapidly building high-performing teams under pressure—on one program he onboarded half the team and delivered a critical product in seven months using Agile. A former firmware lead at TI and Philips, he combines board bring-up, ASIC/FPGA simulation and low-level debugging skills with product and customer-escalation ownership. Based in Milpitas, he also co-founded a bootstrapped supply-chain startup, blending enterprise networking domain knowledge with entrepreneurial product delivery. His Github interest in cybersecurity complements his networking and embedded pedigree, reflecting a security-aware approach to systems design.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Computer Science, B.E Computer Science at Shivaji University
Github Skills (6)
installer9
owasp1
document-repository1
elm1
french1
security1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Awagi/wiki
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 161 pushes, 20 branches in 8 months
CyberPlanning/updater
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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