Abhay Roy
About Abhay Roy
Abhay Roy, VP of Engineering, has made significant contributions to network engineering, holding 37 patents and authoring 12 RFCs. He has held leadership roles at Cisco and senior positions at Sun Microsystems and Wipro Infotech.
Title and Current Role
Abhay Roy is the Vice President of Engineering. In this role, he leads strategic development efforts and oversees teams working on network programmability, manageability, and automation.
Leadership at Cisco
At Cisco, Abhay Roy was part of the leadership team that developed the Nexus 7k router for datacenters, along with the Nexus 9k, 6k, and 5k family of products. His work included leading development efforts in multiple technologies such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, BFD, Segment Routing, IPv6, OTV, LISP, and FabricPath. Most recently, he led teams focusing on NETCONF/YANG manageability, virtual platforms, and DevOps.
Previous Engineering Positions
Before joining Cisco, Abhay Roy held senior engineering positions at Sun Microsystems and Wipro Infotech (India). At Sun Microsystems and Wipro Infotech, he was responsible for the design and development of Network Protocols, Solaris TCP/IP stack, and Remote Access Servers.
Industry Contributions
Abhay Roy is an active participant in industry forums such as the IETF, where he served as the co-chair for the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) working group from 2007 to 2018. He has authored 12 RFCs and holds 37 patents in the areas of Routing, Layer3, and Layer2 Protocols, as well as Wireless and Mobile Ad-Hoc Routing (MANET).
Educational Background
Abhay Roy holds an M. Tech degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (E&TC) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. His educational background has provided a strong foundation for his work in engineering and technology leadership.