Kenneth Duda

Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software, lead architect of Arista’s EOS Network Data Lake (NetDL) and drives Network as a Service (NAAS) initiatives across Arista’s products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.