Summary
Mauro Sardara is an engineering technical leader at Cisco in Paris with 11 years of experience building and researching networking systems, from protocol design to product incubation. He progressed through roles at Cisco from software engineer and PhD candidate to senior engineer and now technical lead, combining deep academic training (PhD work at Télécom Paris) with hands-on experience in Information Centric Networking and 5G mobility experiments. Mauro’s background spans research labs and industry, including IRT SystemX and earlier internships focused on network design and traffic analysis, which gives him a strong systems-level view of connectivity challenges. He is known for turning research prototypes into applied solutions within emerging technologies and incubation teams, bridging rigorous networking theory with practical deployment considerations. An ability to navigate both academia and large-enterprise engineering teams makes him effective at shepherding complex, forward-looking network projects toward production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Télécom Paris
High School Scientific and Humanistic studies, High School Scientific and Humanistic studies at Liceo Scientifico
Master's Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master's Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at EURECOM
Master’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino
English, French, Italian