Khalid Raza
Khalid Raza is a co-founder and CTO at Viptela, a Sequoia-funded technology company focused on SD-WAN. Khalid Raza is a former Distinguished Engineer at Cisco and widely regarded as a visionary in routing protocols. In a career spanning more than 20 years, he has played an instrumental role in architecting networks for global tier 1 carriers and Fortune 100 companies and in defining innovative grid solutions for the healthcare industry. He has been awarded the pinnacle of Cisco certifications: the Cisco Certified Architect (CCAr) and Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE). Most recently, at Hewlett-Packard, he was honored as Distinguished Technologist, and he created the vision for the company's next-generation data center and wide area network architectures. Raza holds patents in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and is the author of a book titled Large-Scale IP Network Solutions.
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