Summary
Kushagra Bhargava is an Infrastructure Engineering lead based in San Francisco with 11 years of software engineering experience and 7+ years in leadership roles, currently driving platform observability, databases, and auditing infrastructure for Cisco Nexus Dashboard. He has a track record of rapid advancement and recognition—two promotions in three years and a dozen Cisco awards including innovation and a VP Spotlight—plus selection for Cisco’s Multiplier Effect growth program. Kushagra blends deep systems and full-stack skills gained at Apple and VMware (real-time analytics, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes) with research-rooted expertise from Precog, where his distributed stream-processing and forensic tooling were deployed to government agencies. He consistently ships low-latency, scalable pipelines and UI-driven visualization tools, and has experience designing NoSQL models and caching strategies for high-throughput workloads. Notably, his internship at VMware produced the most-voted intern project and earned an engineering efficiency award, indicating an ability to deliver high-impact prototypes quickly. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and leverages academic rigor to solve practical, production-scale infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bal Bhavan Public School
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University