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Aalap Shah

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Technical Director at Arista Networks
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aalap Shah is a Technical Director at Arista Networks, specializing in system-level product delivery and hardware design. With a long, multi-director tenure at Cisco, he has extensive experience in platform engineering, program management, and organization development. He is a Certified Scrum Master and holds an MS from California State University-Sacramento.

After a distinguished career of nearly two decades in senior engineering leadership at Cisco, he joined Arista Networks to drive development on cutting-edge products.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Technical Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Hardware Engineering
His entire career, including his current role, is focused on hardware design, platform engineering, and FPGA development for advanced networking products.
Recruiting Top Talent
He is actively and publicly hiring for his team, seeking senior hardware design and signal integrity engineers to work on challenging, cutting-edge products.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Technical Director
Arista Networks
11-2021 - 11-2025
Senior Director
Cisco
11-2017 - 11-2021
Director Engineering - System and FPGA Design
Cisco
10-2014 - 10-2017
Director Engineering - Platform engineering
Cisco
9-2011 - 10-2014
Sr. Engineering Mgr, High End Routing and Optical Group
Cisco
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Education
2000 - 2002
MS
California State University-Sacramento
1996 - 1999
BE
Gujarat University
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