Santhosh Cheeniyil - Profile

Santhosh Cheeniyil - Founder, CTO & VP of Engineering at Avenda Systems

Santhosh has over 20 years of product design, development and management experience in the computer industry. Prior to co-founding Avenda Systems, Santhosh was at Cisco Systems for over 7 years, where he was a Senior Manager and Technical Leader in security, voice and network management technology groups; he led the design and development of several successful products in the VoIP and network management areas. He was a Principal Engineer at Devsoft Corporation, which was acquired by Cisco in 1998.

Prior to Devsoft he ran a successful software consulting business in Silicon Valley for 5 years, where he spearheaded multiple high profile projects from concept to deployment in companies such as Netcom, Aspect Telecommunications, Concentric Networks and Visions of Reality. Earlier in his career, he also held engineering positions at David Systems and Intel Corporation. Santhosh holds an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Calicut, India.