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Aalap Shah

Questioner · DISC type c
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
Personality Overview

How Aalap shows up

Price-Sensitive
Systematic
Value Seeker

They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. They are more likely than others to negotiate on pricing and terms. They prefer to fully evaluate every situation.

Priorities

Topics Aalap cares about

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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Media appearances

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Education
2000 - 2002
MS
California State University-Sacramento
1996 - 1999
BE
Gujarat University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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