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Shiv Kumar

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Director, Engineering at Cisco
📍 Fremont, California, United States

Shiv Kumar is a Director of Engineering at Cisco, leading the Silicon One P4 team in developing data planes for next-generation networking. A graduate of IIT Delhi, his expertise spans forwarding, QoS, and SoC. Colleagues describe him as a sharp, enterprising, and highly effective technical leader.

He shows a keen interest in the evolution of the tech industry, reflecting on the history of internships and analyzing leadership principles at major semiconductor companies. He values bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical, real-world engineering challenges.

He is building the team that programs Ciscos unifying Silicon One architecture, directly impacting next-generation AI, hyperscaler, and data center infrastructure.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Director, Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Fremont, California, United States
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Next-Gen Networking
He is actively hiring for Cisco's Silicon One P4 team, which develops data planes for routers and switches used in AI networks, hyperscalers, and data centers.
Dataplane Forwarding
His career shows deep expertise in forwarding technologies, having led teams and architected components for IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, and L2VPN at Cisco for over a decade.
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Career

Work history

11-2024
Director, Engineering
Cisco
9-2020 - 11-2024
Engineering Manager at Barefoot Division ( Data Center Group )
Intel
10-2017 - 9-2020
Software Development Manager at Cisco
Cisco
12-2014 - 10-2017
Senior Technical Lead
Cisco
9-2007 - 9-2014
Technical Leader
Cisco
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Education
1990 - 1995
5 Year Integrated Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Application
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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