About
Praveen Patnala is a Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco. He co-founded the cloud security company Valtix, serving as VP of Engineering until its acquisition by Cisco, and previously worked as an engineer at Google Cloud Platform, as well as at Andiamo, BloomReach, and LaserLike. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras, and is named on 22 patents.
Founder at Valtix
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Experience
- CiscoSenior Director of Engineeringcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- PEF CommunityMembercurrent2024 — present
- regie.aiAdvisorcurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- ValtixCo-Founder, VP Engineering2018 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- Laserlike IncEngineering2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- BloomReachDirector of Engineering2010 — 2015
- Yahoo!Technical Yahoo!2008 — 2010
- Cisco (through acquisition of Andiamo Systems)Sr. Software Engineer2004 — 2008
- Andiamo SystemsSoftware Engineer2002 — 2004
- Nexsi SystemsSoftware Engineer2000 — 2002San Francisco Bay Area
- Yahoo! Inc.Software Engineer2000San Francisco Bay Area
- Bell Labs, Lucent TechnologiesSummer intern1999
Skills & more
Hadoop32MapReduce11Python5Java10Linux8C5SaaS8Enterprise Software6Distributed Systems42Scalability20Big Data8Algorithms11
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Praveen Patnala?
- Praveen Patnala is a Senior Director of Engineering at Cisco. He co-founded the cloud security company Valtix, serving as VP of Engineering until its acquisition by Cisco, and previously worked as an engineer at Google Cloud Platform, as well as at Andiamo, BloomReach, and LaserLike. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras, and is named on 22 patents.
- Where does Praveen Patnala work?
- Praveen Patnala is Founder of Valtix.
- What companies did Praveen Patnala found?
- Praveen Patnala founded Valtix.
- Where did Praveen Patnala go to school?
- Praveen Patnala studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (B. Tech, Computer Science and Engineering); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M. S, Computer Science).
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