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Lalit Kumar

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Director Software Engineering at Supermicro
📍 San Jose, California, United States

Lalit Kumar is the Director of Software Engineering at Supermicro, leading teams in designing 800G switches with SONiC NOS to support AI networks. A founding engineer at Arrcus Inc., his expertise spans SD-WAN, cloud engineering, and network operating systems. He holds a B.Tech from JMIT, Radaur and is CCNA certified.

As a founding engineer at Arrcus, he played a pivotal role in architecting and implementing a network operating system from the ground up for white box switching.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Director Software Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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AI Networking
His current role at Supermicro focuses on building switches specifically to power the next wave of AI training and inferencing networks.
Open Networking
Frequently emphasizes experience with SONiC / ONL and the open networking stack in his work and when hiring for his team.
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Work history

9-2025
Director Software Engineering
Supermicro
2-2021 - 9-2025
Director Cloud Software Engineering
Graphiant
1-2017 - 2-2021
Member Of Technical Staff (Founding Engineer)
Arrcus inc
4-2015 - 12-2016
Senior Technical Leader
Cisco Systems
2-2013 - 3-2015
Technical Leader
Cisco Systems
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B.Tech
JMIT, Radaur
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