Summary
Sridhar Rao is a networking-focused technology leader with a PhD from NUS and over 25 years of domain experience, currently serving as Director at The Linux Foundation India after leading networking and edge community architecture for The Linux Foundation. He blends applied research and product-minded engineering across SDN, NFV, wireless mesh and ML-for-networking, with hands-on work from kernel-level WiMAX implementations to open‑vSwitch-based virtualization. Known for mentoring and teaching, he has steered research labs and industry teams to deliver proofs-of-concept and field-tested systems for next-generation wired and wireless networks. Comfortable at the intersection of research, standards and developer communities, he brings rare depth in both protocol design and practical deployment of open networking technologies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
MTech, Computer Science, MTech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
ipSpace Building Next-Generation Data Center course
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
BE, Instrumentation and Electronics, BE, Instrumentation and Electronics at Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur