Atif Khan is a renowned routing expert with extensive experience bringing groundbreaking networking solutions to market and in architecting some of the largest and most sophisticated global networks. As CTO of Alkira, he is responsible for Alkira’s technology vision and overall engineering and product development of Alkira Cloud Services Exchange. Atif was VP Technology and Solutions and a founding team member at Viptela, where he developed a world-class, cloud-first, highly scalable SD-WAN solution with advanced routing, segmentation, and security capabilities that was eventually acquired by Cisco. Atif holds 7 patents in routing, security and overlay multicast.