Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, AVSM, VSM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy.

He has also attended the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island in the United States.

FOST functions under the operational and administrative jurisdiction of Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command.

[12][13] During this tenure, the western fleet exercised with the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) in the North Arabian Sea in the 4th edition of India - Japan Maritime bilateral exercise JIMEX.

[14] For his command of the western fleet, on 26 January 2021, he was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.

[15] In February 2021, he relinquished command of the Western Fleet and was appointed Flag Officer Defence Advisory Group and took over from Rear Admiral Ravindra Jayant Nadkarni.

[16][17] He was the FODAG during the extremely severe Cyclone Tauktae, which impacted off-shore oil operations.

After a short stint as FODAG, on 4 November 2021, he was promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral and appointed Chief of Staff of the Western Naval Command at Mumbai.

In both appointments, CPS and COP, he took over from Vice Admiral Suraj Berry.