Prashant Vashisht is Senior Director of Embedded Software Engineering at Ciena India where he leads the company’s routing and switching portfolio software R&D organization. He is responsible for delivering next gen routing and switching solutions over bare metal hardware/virtualized domain across major tier 1 service providers globally.

Vashisht has been in telecom sector for several decades, having built large teams for conceptualizing and delivering complex systems, products, and projects in multi-site and cross-functional environments. Previous to Ciena, Vashisht held various engineering roles at Flextronics Software Systems, Marconi Systems and Hughes Software Systems.

With a master’s degree in software systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, Vashisht has been granted many patents over the course of his career. He has also served on Ciena’s Patent Review Board.