Ravi Chandrasekaran is Senior Vice President at Enterprise Network, Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco. He is responsible for product development across Cisco's switching, routing, wireless, IoT, network automation, and analytics portfolios. He leads the engineering effort on the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Previously at Cisco, Chandra served as Vice President of Software for the Enterprise Networking Group, where he created a cohesive software-plus-services architecture for the enterprise market segment. Before that, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Services Routing Group when it delivered Cisco's flagship WAN edge router and WAN Optimization platforms as well as products for the Cloud Intelligent Network. He also spent the first part of his career at Cisco, where he developed a significant part of the Cisco BGP and MPLS forwarding protocols and co-authored six RFCs.