Mukesh Hira
Engineer at World Labs
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMukesh Hira is an engineer with 8 years of professional experience and a deep technical foundation in computer networks, wireless communications, operating systems, and data structures. He has held senior technical roles across the networking industry—from principal architect work on VMware NSX to an engineering fellow role in network security at Palo Alto Networks, and now continues to shape systems at World Labs. Mukesh has contributed to standards and community efforts as Co-Chair of the P4 Applications Working Group at the Open Networking Foundation, reflecting a blend of protocol-level insight and practical system design. His background includes hands-on QoS and data center networking experience from Cisco, Juniper, and earlier startups, giving him a rare perspective across networking product lifecycles. Based in Los Altos and academically trained at Stanford (MS/PhD) and the University of Mumbai, he combines rigorous research-level thinking with production-hardened engineering. A less obvious strength is his ability to move between deep architectural strategy and hands-on implementation, making him effective at turning theoretical protocols into deployable network features.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics Engineering at University of MumbaiPh.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (2)
p4lang6
programming-language6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
mhira1/p4-applications
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 18 days
p4lang/p4-applications
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
P4 Applications WG repo
Contributions:35 commits, 17 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
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