Summary
Tarun Saxena is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of deep networking and systems expertise, now building Technical Infrastructure services at Google after roles at Arista, Cisco and Juniper. He specializes in NAT, NetFlow, memory management, high-performance packet processing and multithreaded systems, with hands-on experience developing microkernel support for the XLR processor. At Juniper he contributed to IPv4-to-IPv6 migration strategies, DS-Lite design (with a patent filed) and authored an IETF draft on NAT64 analysis, illustrating a strong protocol and standards pedigree. A DevOps enthusiast active from Bengaluru, he blends low-level systems engineering with operational tooling and pragmatic performance optimizations. His background spans rigorous academic training (IIIT-H, IISc) and management study at IIM Bangalore, giving him both technical depth and product-minded leadership.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc(engg) Wireless Networks, M.Sc(engg) Wireless Networks at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Schooling, Schooling at DAV
M.Tech(CS) Master of Technology, M.Tech(CS) Master of Technology at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
PGSEM Management, PGSEM Management at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
University of Delhi