Mr. Gattupalli has more than 20 years of experience in L4-L7 applications, computer systems and semiconductor chip development. Previously, as the director of engineering for L4-L7 services in the Security Technology Group (STG) at Cisco Systems, he was responsible for the Content Switching Module (CSM) and the led the development effort on the industry leading 16Gbps Application Control Engine (ACE). Prior to that, Mr. Gattupalli was Director of HW at Netiverse Corporation leading the platform development of the CSM. Netiverse was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Mr. Gattupalli was also the Director of HW development at Tharas Systems, a provider of the industry leading Verilog Accelerator. In addition, he held several management positions at SGI and worked at Intel, Catalyst Semiconductor, and Nexcom Technology (acquired by ISSI). Mr. Gattupalli holds BS in Electronics from IIT Madras, India, and a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington.