Summary
Rajvardhan Deshmukh is a Software Engineer III with nine years of experience focused on identity and network security, currently driving product integration and platform work at Cisco in Milpitas. He brings a strong systems background from prior research at UMass Amherst—where he published on ICN, adaptive bitrate streaming, and LTE offloading—and translates that academic rigor into production-grade C/C++/Go implementations and CI/CD testing. At Cisco he has shipped full-stack prototypes and integrated next-generation mini-firewall functionality across IOS-XE data and control paths using a broad toolset (Docker, ConfD, Click, Angular). Comfortable across networking, wireless sensor systems, and streaming domains, he pairs low-level packet- and configuration-path expertise with practical experience in secure threat services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who moves research insights into real products while maintaining a curiosity for protocol-level performance trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
Master of Science (MS), Electronics and Computers, Master of Science (MS), Electronics and Computers at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada