Suhas Mansingh is the Vice President of Software development in the Service Provider Networking Group. Suhas has completed 20 years with Cisco and leads a team of around 1000 Software Engineers in India and Italy. His team in India and Italy is responsible for the software development of Routing Platforms (CRS, ASR9k, Access Platforms) and Optical Platforms (NCS2k,1k,4k).

Suhas joined Cisco in 1999 through the acquisition of Cerent networks in Petaluma, CA. While in Cisco,USA he was responsible for the Control Plane and Network Automation team of the Optical Business Unit. Suhas moved to India in 2006 on an assignment tasked with the responsibility of setting up the optical team in India, post setting up the optical Software & Hardware team in India he took additional responsibility for Core Routing (CRS) team in India driving the development and FCS of CRS-X completely from his team in India. Post CRS-X FCS he picked up responsibilities for ASR9k and the access (903,920 ) teams along with his responsibilities for Optical and the Core Routing portfolio. Suhas has driven complete end to end Product development for Optical NCS2k, Rosco software along with products like CRS-X, NCS4k, NCS5k (Skywarp) and the Verizon Metro Optical Project.

Prior to working at Cisco he worked at Nortel Networks in Ottawa, Canada and Wipro Systems in India. Suhas holds a B.Tech Degree from IIT Varanasi and Masters for University of Toronto, Canada in Networking and Communications, he holds two patents relating to automation of network provisioning and orchestration in Optical Networks.