Harish Vishwanath
Director Of Software Engineering at Cisco
San Ramon, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarish Vishwanath is a senior software engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and core infrastructure across networking and data-intensive domains. He has led global teams of 45+ engineers through product and technical strategy at companies like Confluent and Cisco, contributing to platforms that operate tens of thousands of Kafka clusters and a PaaS that supported $1B+ in ARR. His hands-on background spans mainframes and embedded systems to Kubernetes, Go, Python, and large-scale observability and messaging stacks, enabling him to bridge legacy migrations and modern cloud architectures. Known for growing high-performing teams and owning end-to-end lifecycle and reliability engineering, he consistently delivers operationalized systems for mission-critical workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Now at Cisco leading Next Gen Web and agentic AI security, he blends product-minded execution with a passion for empowering engineers and fostering technical excellence. A less obvious strength is his proven ability to migrate and modernize complex legacy environments—skills first honed moving mainframe workloads and later applied to cloud-native control planes.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceB.E Information Science, B.E Information Science at JSSATE BangaloreXII PCMB, XII PCMB at Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala
Github Skills (31)
golang10
programming-language9
interpreter9
go9
odin8
compiler8
controller8
subprocess7
goplus7
python5
kubernetes4
peer-discovery4
cross-compiling4
discovery3
devops3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hvishwanath/ak2md
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
hvishwanath/kafka-site-md
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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