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MS - incomplete, dropped out to join Microsoft
NDO-post graduate studies
2020
2020
Investing in AI, Modern Data Stacks, Developer tooling, Security and cloud. Enterprise & Infrastructure. Board Director at Orby AI, Causal Labs. Board observer at quadric.io
2020 - 2020
0 to 1 venture capital. We partner with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.
2016 - 2020
2016 - 2020
Strategic business, technical and product consulting for software startups in Cloud networking, mapping, education, enterprise and green technologies. Launched projects in Environmental (patent pending), Mapping software and education. Companies: Teeb, Taygo, Blueword.ai, Map2door, Volta Networks Learning sabbatical through Stanford University and MIT classes in Machine Learning, Deep Learning (general, vision), Distributed and Parallel Systems, Design Thinking/ Product Design/ Design Execution/ Design Research
2012 - 2015
2012 - 2015
Following the acquisition of Cariden, I led the WAN infrastructure SDN development known as WAN Automation Engine (WAE) as chief architect and head of tech. WAE is part of Cisco Crosswork Network Automation suite of products and is a distributed controller with northbound REST / Thrift APIs, Southbound near real time collection, analytics and modeling and many Apps including Design, Live Analytics, Optimization, Traffic Engineering and Bandwidth on Demand.
2001 - 2012
2011 - 2012
Acquired by Cisco. Cariden was a profitable bootstrapped startup and leader in WAN infrastructure SDN and WAN Traffic Engineering and Planning. Cariden's respected MATE Suite of products was used by almost all Tier-1 Service providers, many web scale companies, Telcos and cable companies. Defined the technical direction of Cariden and its overall product architecture, primarily focusing on strategic products and technologies. Developed Cariden's SDN (Software Defined Networking) line of product called NS-OS, a clustered, almost linearly scalable and industry's first WAN Infrastructure SDN platform.
2001 - 2011
Created and lead the Cariden's engineering team from company's inception to becoming the dominant provider of WAN network planning, simulation, analytics, optimization and traffic engineering tools (Cariden's MATE Suite). Co-designed and implemented many major components of MATE. Lead engineering through more than twenty releases.
2000 - 2001
2000 - 2001
Lead the engineering team and to development Panop’s online advertising recommendation system. Panop was acquired by Broadbase/Kana and I was designated one of the key employees.
1997 - 2000
1997 - 2000
Designed, and implemented a run time process execution environment to achieve fault tolerance and resiliency for all the Vertical’s services. Architected and implemented remote management system (C++ and Java)
1994 - 1997
1994 - 1997
Implemented many components of the port of Newton OS's Object Oriented File System for Mac OS and Windows Platforms as well as other communication components for Newton Connection Kit. (C++)
1993 - 1994
1993 - 1994