Honnappa has 19 years of experience in developing applications, platform enablement kits and application development kits meant for high throughput packet processing workloads. He started his career working on IXP2400. He has worked on Octeon and Axxia line of multi-core packet processors. Currently, Honnappa is a principal software engineer responsible for managing a small team as well as leading Arm's efforts on developing high throughput packet processing capabilities on Arm based platforms.