Shraddha Chaplot

Shraddha Chaplotis working on connecting the unconnected through Internet of Everything experiments in Cisco's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team. Before CSR, Shraddha was Cisco's self-proclaimed Greengineer, where she built and led Cisco's Energy Star Compliance test lab, qualifying the first 22 Cisco servers. She began her career at the company as a hardware engineer in the Accessibility team where she tested products, spearheaded a $100,000 Cisco Research Gift for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and brought on Cisco's first two interns who were deaf. She is a member of Cisco’s prestigious Silicon Valley Civic Council, where she is their champion for the STEAM initiative.

Shraddha has been recognized as Silicon Valley Business Journal's Forty Under 40 (2013) and 100 Women of Influence (2014), YWCA's Emerging Leader for Cisco (2014), and profiled in WeAreCisco (2015), Cisco's Amazing Stories (2015) and recognized as aCisco Innovator (2012). She was featured in Vogue India's March 2015 issue, named one of Verve Magazine's Indian Power Women, is an Elle Geek, and a speaker at Cisco's Women Rock-IT TV series. Shraddha is currently a board member on RIT/NTID's Foundation Board of Directors.