Kaushik brings over 20 years of experience driving technology and architecture strategy for enterprise-class products. Kaushik has been working in the network security and management space for sixteen years and large part of that at Cisco systems where his last stint was as the Principal Engineer responsible for the Identity Services Engine product, which won Cisco Pioneer Technology award. Kaushik helped drive key technology initiatives within Cisco in the areas of Policy Management, Cloud Centric Networking and Network Automation, he has filed several patents and also been active member at the IETF responsible for multiple RFCs.