Saswat Praharaj
Principal Engineer at Cisco
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarSaswat Praharaj is a Principal Engineer based in San Jose with 10 years of experience building hybrid and multi-cloud networking and security products at scale. At Cisco he leads architecture and product incubation for generative AI privacy, zero trust, SASE/SSE, SD-WAN, and Kubernetes-based edge platforms, often from PoC to open-source libraries with minimal funding. He blends hands-on engineering—designing gRPC services, cloud SDK integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure), and Go implementations—with customer-facing work like PR-FAQ proposals and PRDs to align technical direction and product strategy. Saswat influences standards and cross-team technology decisions, using C4 modeling and plugin-based service mesh/multi-cluster networking patterns. He is pragmatic about shifting left security and applying generative AI as conversational automation for network and security operations. A detail that stands out: he routinely converts lean prototypes into reusable open-source components that accelerate adoption across engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (54)
graph10
programming-language9
terraform9
tcp9
vault9
golang9
go9
infrastructure-as-code9
service-discovery8
api-gateway8
kafka8
http8
udp8
letsencrypt7
data-center7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
app-net-interface/awi-infra-guard
Apr 2024 - Aug 2025
Infra guard provides visibility and monitoring of infrastructure resources for AWS, GCP and Azure. It can watch resource tags for changes across multiple cloud providers.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 4 months
awsazuregcpmonitoringaws-ec2
saswatp/simple
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Another HTTP library for golang. This has a simple,unpretentious and straightforward interface. Handles different timeouts in a single structure making it easy for using.
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
golanghttp-libraryhttp-clienttimeoutshandles
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