Anil Rao is a Sr. Principal Engineer at Gigamon, leading research and development activities related to virtual machine traffic monitoring. Previously, he worked at Hewlett Packard, VMware and Ericsson. Some of his past accomplishments include implementing Memory Resource Groups in the HP-UX kernel and developing the memory scheduler for the ESX hypervisor. More recently, he was responsible for the inception of the router virtualization effort at Ericsson and served as the principal architect for the project.
 
Anil’s research interests include operating systems, distributed computing, virtual machine technology and software defined networking. He holds a BTech in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka and an MS in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut.