Vijayananda Jayaraman is a Senior Technical Leader at Cisco Systems with over 25 years of progressive experience leading the architecture, development, and delivery of advanced routing, switching, overlay, and SD-WAN technologies for enterprise and service-provider networks. He has driven technical leadership and architectural innovation at globally recognized organizations including Cisco Systems, Nokia, Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, Huawei Technologies, and Samsung, spanning end-to-end design and delivery of large-scale networking solutions for enterprise and carrier-grade infrastructures worldwide. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Mysore University, India.