Venkat Garigipati is a Principal Engineer at Cisco, where he leads silicon strategy for both Cloud Scale and Silicon One ASICs within the Data Center Networking organization. He is also a passionate advocate for advancing next-generation network architectures, driving innovation in both scale-up and scale-out technologies. Venkat brings extensive development experience in SONiC/SAI, IOS-XR, and NX-OS, and is recognized for his deep technical leadership across a range of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking features.