Vinod is a Technical Leader at the Openstack Systems Engineering group at Cisco. Vinod is actively involved in customizing NFV infrastructure for high availability, performance and scale requirement imposed by the network applications. Vinod has worked on deployment and troubleshooting of multiple NFV applications including virtual packet core and cloudVPN. Recently Vinod has started contributing to cloudpulse, health service for NFV applications. Prior to his involvement in Openstack, Vinod has lead and architected test infrastructure and framework for VNF product lines such as CSR(Cloud Services Router), vXR (virtual IOSXR) and N1K(nexus 1000).