Summary
Girish Gangappa is a Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco with nine years of experience building cloud-native, distributed and networked systems. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, OpenStack, SDN/NFV and cluster fault-tolerance, having implemented Kubernetes bootstrap, monitoring, admission controllers and RAFT-based clustering components in production. Comfortable across C/C++, Go and Python, he pairs systems-level networking knowledge (BGP/OSPF/MPLS, OpenFlow) with automation and security tooling such as Ansible, Jenkins and Nessus. Girish’s background spans research and product work—from SDN service chaining and ClickOS research to shipping analytics and recovery automation for large-scale controllers—so he bridges academic rigour with delivery focus. Based in San Jose, he combines cloud architecture skills with practical test and chaos-simulation automation that reduces recovery time and hardens deployments. He is actively seeking opportunities to apply his cross-domain skills in software development, cloud automation and network security.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Networking, Master's degree Computer Networking at San José State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
High School, High School at Max Muller High School
English, Hindi, Kannada