Chickayya Naik
About Chickayya Naik
Chickayya Naik is the Technical Director of Engineering at Arista Networks, with extensive experience in data center networking and cloud computing.
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Chickayya Naik is the Technical Director of Engineering at Arista Networks.
Company
Chickayya Naik currently holds the position of Technical Director of Engineering at Arista Networks, a role he has been fulfilling since 2022 in Santa Clara, California, United States.
Previous Work Experience at Pluribus Networks
Chickayya Naik worked at Pluribus Networks in various capacities culminating in the role of Senior Director of Engineering from 2018 to 2022 in Santa Clara, California. Before that, he served as a Software Architect from 2016 to 2018 in Palo Alto, California.
Previous Work Experience at Cisco Systems
Chickayya Naik held multiple roles at Cisco Systems. He was the Sr. Director of Engineering for the Cloud & Data Center Group from 2012 to 2015 and Sr. Director of Engineering for Enterprise Switching from 2007 to 2011, both in San Jose. From 1996 to 2007, he held various engineering and management roles.
Co-Founder of Stealth Mode Startup
In 2015, Chickayya Naik co-founded a Stealth Mode Startup and worked there until 2016 in San Jose, California.
Education and Expertise
Chickayya Naik studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Mumbai, earning a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in 1970. He further pursued Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1970. He holds expertise in Data Center Networking infrastructure internals, SDN, L2/L3 software and ASIC switching architectures, IP protocols, QoS, and security.
Patents and Publications
Chickayya Naik has authored 7 US patents and contributed to several publications in the field of engineering. He has also earned multiple verified certificates from edX in Data Analysis and Machine Learning.