Vittal Theppasandra

Background

About Vittal Theppasandra

A passionate and result oriented engineering professional with over 19+ years of experience in building leading networking and security products catering Enterprise Routing, Switching and SDWAN market spaces. • Proven track record of building and growing high caliber teams and senior talents. Possess a very deep understanding of engineering methodologies and product development lifecycles. • Hands on experience in testing several large and complex projects for Cisco Routers and switches catering to Enterprise markets. • Leading a large team of technical leads and engineers, driving key components of Cisco’s enterprise Routing, Switching, VPN Security, Broadband and Government Certificate solutions • Complete product testing life cycle ownership of multiple parallel products and teams based in multiple geographical locations spanning across India and US • Ownership for Crypto VPN technology including IPsec, IKE, SSL, PKI, and Cisco flagship VPN technologies DMVPN, SSLVPN and FLEXVPN. SDWAN features Trustsec, SDRA. • BNG features testing for CISCO ASR routers. • Successfully managed several highly visible large enterprise customers, Service provider and govt org accounts for escalation in Switching, Routing, Broadband products, features and technologies across multiple geographies. • Partnership with product marketing team and accounts teams on defining roadmaps. • Implemented a new method of managing customer interaction engagements for Early Field Trials, by directly involving test teams in customer meetings, resulting in improved understanding of customer requirements and increased customer satisfaction.