SRIDHAR IYER

Employment

• Senior Director, AI/MLAug'25 - Present

  Versa Networks

• DirectorMar'22 - Aug'25

  Versa Networks

  • Built strong relationships with leading analysts (Gartner, Forrester, etc.) to influence market perception and align product strategy.
  • Led and contributed to vendor product evaluations and M&A technical assessments.
  • Managed geographically distributed teams across multiple products and functions.
  • VANI (Versa Advanced Network Insights): Conceptualized and leading the development of an AI-driven analytics platform that provides deep insights across diverse network signals.
  • Verbo (Versa Bot): Conceived and driving development of an advanced LLM + retrieval-powered assistant to accelerate knowledge access and support across Versa.
  • UEBA Platform: Leading the creation of Versa's cutting-edge User & Entity Behavior Analytics platform.

• Senior ArchitectJul'19 - Mar'22

  Versa Networks

  • Main designer, implementer, maintainer of various VOS (Versa OS) subsystems, like QoS, Entitlement, Accounting etc.
  • Heading the adoption of ML/AI in different subsystems within the product.
  • Built multiregional team to buildout multiple product modules (UI, Data Engineering, Software Engineering).
  • Designed the Data Science algorithms & Data pipelines needed for the product.

• Sr Tech LeadJul'17 - Jul'19

  Versa Networks

  • Designed steering of SaaS traffic based on application performance metrics.
  • Designed & implemented cos-shaping and Adaptive CoS shaping for Versa FlexVNF solutions. This was developed using intel DPDK to perform the actual rate-limiting, and BGP to convey the message to different clients.
  • Implemented 802.3ah EOAM/CFM (Connectivity fault management subsystem). This formed the basis of the SLA mechanism that enforces the heartbeat between the devices.
  • Designed, implemented and enforced various infrastructural elements (SKU limit handling, licensing computation & handling etc) across various teams and products.

• Technical LeadJul'14 - Jul'17

  Versa Networks

  • Designed & implemented the Acctmgr module for Versa FlexVNF, which maintains lock-free, high frequency, high performance counters across multiple processes & threads, backed up by REDIS db.
  • Implemented AE(Aggregated Ethernet), static and lacp(802.1ax) based, for Versa FlexVNF. Proprietary extensions were added to support non-standard topologies.

• Sr Software EngineerJul'10 - Jul'14

  Cisco Systems

  • Instrumental in the development of the new Cisco n6000 series of switches. Worked on the forwarding layer right from the DOL stage to the release stage.
  • Develop and maintain the l2 layer of the forwarding plane on Cisco's n5000 series of switches.
  • Developed and maintained various authentication/authorization/monitoring modules on n5000 switches like SNMP, AAA, TACACS, RADIUS etc.

• Software EngineerJun'07 - Jul'10

  Mailshell Inc.

  • Design, write and maintain tools used for anti-spam analysis.
  • Enhance the existing proprietary SDK and develop other tools required by the clients.
  • Manage an offshore outsourced development team.

• Research AssistantAug'06 - May'07

  Dept Of Computer Science, Syracuse University

  • Developed Instructional Laboratory projects for Computer Security Education.
  • Developed Encrypted File System and ASLR on Minix 3.1.2a.
  • Designed SQL injection, LD_PRELOAD, buffer overflow attack and race condition attack labs.
  • Project funded by National Science Foundation ($451,682, 01/2007-12/2010. Grant No. 0618680).

• Research AssistantSep'05 - Sep'06

  Syracuse University

  • Did an Independent study on Multidimensional Function Minimization using Genetic Algorithms.
  • Simulated cognitive models (based on Temporal Context Model developed by Dr Marc Howard and Dr Michael Kahana) on Beowulf cluster housing 72 hyper-threaded 3.06GHz Xeon processors.

• Software Engineering InternFeb'05 - Aug'05

  Aztec Softwares and Technology Services

  • DB Monitoring Tool: Developed a monitoring tool for postgresSQL on Solaris 10 using Dtrace and Qt.
  • Policy Driven Application Manager: Developed an orchestrator for automated scaling of servers using CLI scripts. Deployed on IBM blade servers.

Education

• MS, Computer ScienceAug'05 - May'07

  Syracuse University

• B.E., Computer Science and EngineeringAug'01 - Jun'05

  Visvesvaraya Technological University

Patents

• Zero Trust Model Context Protocol Server with Proxied API Execution [Filed Feb 27, 2026. US 19/552,795 & US 19/538,486]
• Application Performance Based Path-Selection Using Dynamic Metrics [US 16/442406]
• Application Performance Based Path-Selection [US 62657817]
• Methods and System for Adaptively Managing Network Traffic Distribution [Filed Apr 16, 2021. US 17/233,332]
• Methods and System for Adaptively Managing Network Traffic Policing [Filed Apr 16, 2021. US 17/233,352]
• Method and computing device for shaping traffic across a wide area network [Issued Oct 2, 2018. US10091078B2]
• Method and system for shaping traffic from an egress port in a software-defined wide area network [Filed Nov 15, 2017. US 15/814,296]
• Maintaining Lock-Free, High Frequency, High Performance Counters in Software [Issued Oct 25, 2016. US9477471B1]
• Method for configuring a connection using redundant service nodes [Filed Apr 5, 2016. US 15091388]