Venkat Pullela

Venkat Pullela is Chief of Technology, Networking for Keysight Technologies, where he focuses on open networking, software-defined networking, and evolving testing architectures. He was previously Co-Founder at OpenNets, a company that develops tools for programmable networks and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. He has also worked at Broadcom as a Distinguished Engineer and at Cisco as a Sr. Director of Engineering. His areas of interest include efficient switching architectures, pipeline description languages, hardware abstraction and interfaces. He has been an invited speaker at ONF Connect, OCP, Linux Foundation and SIGCOMM events. He holds 25 patents. He earned a Master’s in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.