Summary
Umesh Krishnaswamy is a Partner Software Engineer in San Jose with 13 years of focused experience shaping large-scale wide area network traffic engineering, routing, and optimization for Microsoft’s global backbone. He has progressed from hands-on engineering and protocol design to technical leadership roles, authoring high-level designs like SWAN and building traffic engineering schedulers that power inter-region Azure connectivity. Prior to Microsoft he led product incubation and strategic customer programs at Juniper, founded a cloud networking startup, and co-led open-source SDN projects (ONOS, SDN-IP), demonstrating a rare mix of carrier-grade networking, systems software, and open-source experience. Umesh’s work balances scale, performance, and live-site reliability, and he’s equally comfortable coding control planes or advising executive stakeholders. He holds advanced computer science degrees from UC Irvine and a technical undergraduate from IIT Bombay, and brings a track record of turning networking research and prototypes into production-grade infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education Program, Executive Education Program at The Wharton School
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
University of California, Irvine