Women in Engineering

Laxmi Mukund

Principle Engineer, Cisco

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Laxmi Mukund is a Principle Engineer at Cisco with a master's in computer science and networking and about 20 years of industry experience. She has worked on various routing, switching and security products across Enterprise, Service Provider and Data Centers. Her main contributions have been in the architecture, design and development of features in the areas of core routing and switching, prefix convergence, Netflow, access control, quality of service, secure policy access and LISP (Locator Identity Separation Protocol). She is currently working on security with privacy as an important component. Understanding customer key requirements and translating them into usable features, reviewing network topology designs and troubleshooting complex customer network topologies has been part of her journey through out. She has a Cisco pioneer award and patents in the area of networking.

Prasad Bhat

Chairman and CTO, Astrome Technologies

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Prasad is Co-founder, Chairman and CTO of Astrome, a deeptech startup developing wireless products for 5G and SatCom. Before Astrome, Prasad co-founded another successful company in the domain of visual search and AI. He did his Masters in System Science and Automation Engineering and PhD in Computer Science and Automation Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science. Prasad did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal. He  received the best outgoing student award during his Masters at IISc. Prasad has been an architect for various technologies including a nanosatellite, a visual search engine at Streamoid (http://streamoid.com), a stochastic game theory solver, the software tool for the latest 3D measurement Texas Instruments chipset (https://github.com/3dtof/voxelsdk). Prasad has also published a popular book on Stochastic Theory with Springer Link.

Subodh Gajare

Lead Architect, Cisco

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Subodh is responsible for innovating across architectures in delivering solutions to meet the customer outcomes. Subodh designs SP IoT Enterprise, DC & Security solutions, with laser focus on Automation and Simplification. He is passionate on creating intellectual capital that can be scaled and leveraged across teams and externally for customers / partners.

Key responsibilities
Designing and implementing programmable networks for global customers of Cisco

Core domains
SDN/NFV, IoT, Mobility (3G to 5G transformation), Zero Trust Security, Virtualization, DC automation, Cloud and ML frameworks.

He has implemented secure solutions for mass scale architectures for clients (to name a few) – ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon, Rakuten, Jio, VodaIdea, Airtel, PLDT, Walmart, Amazon, JPMC, Citibank, HSBC, HDFC, NSE, SBI, Toyota, L&T, Wipro, Infosys.

Subodh is passionate on creating intellectual capital that can be scaled and leveraged across internal team inside Cisco and externally for customers.

Subodh is currently focussed on designing incubating Cisco AI, 5G and IoT industry solutions – in Digital Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Health care, Education, Energy and Transportation. He works as mentor for grooming future Technical leaders/Architects in Cisco. He contributes to incubating 5 start-ups

Sai Geetha

Software Development Engineer III, Tesco

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Sai Geetha is a senior big data architect at Tesco, world's third largest retailer, headquartered at UK. Over her two decades of experience, she has worked in various technologies across different geographies. She has been instrumental in setting up the big data based forecasting systems at Tesco and has been actively engaged in on-boarding data analysts, data scientists and data engineers on to this platform. Year on year, this has led to huge benefits in improving a balance between waste and availability of products in stores.   

She holds a Masters in Technology ( M.Tech ), a Masters in Science ( M.Sc - Physics) and has been a recipient of several gold medals. After years in the industry, she recently finished a PG Diploma course in Data Science and got the Topper award for the same too.