Summary
Eswaran Baskaran is a pragmatic software leader with 6 years of recent focused experience and a two-decade engineering pedigree across networking and cloud infrastructure. He has held engineering and management roles at AWS, Arista, and Cisco, delivering platform software for high-performance switches, routing systems, and cloud data startups. Comfortable shifting between hands-on development and people leadership, he has driven bringup, traffic-policy, and control-plane protection projects that power carrier-grade networks. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area and working at Nexthop AI, he blends low-level systems expertise with cloud-native product execution. Eswaran’s background in ECE (MS, University of Maryland) underpins a practical approach to solving large-scale systems problems, and his stated drive—“getting big stuff done”—reflects a bias for measurable outcomes. He’s as at home optimizing switch fabrics as he is scaling distributed services for emerging AI infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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MS, ECE, MS, ECE at University of Maryland
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at PSG College of Technology