Praneeth Vallem
Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI) at Cisco
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPraneeth Vallem is a Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI) in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed platforms for security and networking at enterprise scale. He architects and operationalizes LLM-powered systems that transform large-scale telemetry into intent understanding, policy generation, and automated decisioning across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a strong focus on production-grade model fine-tuning, quantization, and CPU-efficient inference. At Cisco he led agentic AI initiatives, model distillation, and tool orchestration to enable autonomous security workflows while driving architectural consistency and secure AI best practices. His background in high-throughput telemetry pipelines, enforcement services, and performance optimization (including cutting policy SLA from minutes to under a minute) gives him a rare blend of low-level systems engineering and applied ML expertise. He combines hands-on implementation with cross-team technical leadership, simplifying complex systems into durable, operational solutions that reduce cost and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kakatiya University
English, Telugu, HindiGithub contributions (5)
praneethkits/BigData_HW
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
big-data
mysqlDBReplication/replication
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 6 days
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