Pradeep’s career includes founding Juniper Networks, the company widely recognized for inventing and industrializing silicon-based routers—the invention that played a central role in bringing about the Internet age. Over the years he has held several key roles at Juniper, including founding CEO and Chairman, then Vice Chairman and CTO, and now Chief Scientist. Pradeep had a hand in the inception, design and development of virtually every product Juniper shipped from 1996 through 2015. Before founding Juniper, Pradeep worked at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC for 11 years developing design tools and multiprocessor architectures. During this period he invented the first cache coherency algorithms for packet switched buses and made fundamental contributions to Sun Microsystem’s high performance multiprocessor servers. Pradeep holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, as well as a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii. In addition, Pradeep holds both a Masters and a Doctorate in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University. Pradeep is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and holds more than 200 patents.

Prior to Fungible, Bertrand founded Upthere (acquired by Western Digital), and before that was SVP of Software Engineering at Apple reporting to Steve Jobs. Bertrand started his career at INRIA, a French research institute, and joined Xerox PARC, where he worked on VLSI design aids for four years. He then joined NeXT in 1988 and proceeded to Apple when it acquired NeXT in 1997. At Apple, Bertrand led the development of Mac OS X, and started the offshoot of Mac OS X that became iOS. Bertrand managed a team of up to 1,500 engineers, shipped many releases of Mac OS X and related products, took an active role in external communications, and personally developed APIs that form the basis of Cocoa (MacOS) and CocoaTouch (iOS). Bertrand graduated with a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Orsay, France, and holds more than 50 patents.

Bharat is responsible for systems and backend silicon engineering at Fungible. He brings over 30 years of experience in silicon development at leading technology companies. Prior to joining Fungible, he served as Senior Director of Backend ASIC Engineering for Juniper Networks where he delivered high speed networking chips used in MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and PTX Series Packet Transport Routers. Before Juniper Networks, he was VP of ASIC engineering at Specular Networks Inc, leading the complete end-to-end engineering effort for development of 24-port, 10G switch chip. Prior to this, he worked at Intel Corporation in engineering and management leadership roles. Bharat received a Bachelors in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute (VJTI), India and went on to earn a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey.

Bobby leads finance, accounting, legal, human resources, IT, real estate and operations support at Fungible. Prior to Fungible, Bobby was the VP of Finance at Netskope, a leading cloud security company. He joined Netskope at an early stage and built the finance and accounting functions. He was responsible for helping scale Netskope by providing strategic and financial planning, driving key operating metrics, managing PL and raising multiple rounds of financing.  He partnered with sales leadership to develop GTM strategies, sales channels, pricing models and sales achievement metrics. Prior to Netskope, Bobby held various leadership positions at Juniper Network during a 10-year tenure. He also worked for Peribit Networks (acquired by Juniper), Handspring and PriceWaterhouseCoopers audit group and is a qualified CPA. Bobby graduated from the University of East Anglia, Norwich with a Bachelors in Accounting degree.

Chak is responsible for leading silicon design and validation efforts at Fungible. Prior to Fungible, he was Senior Director at Qualcomm, where he led the development of Wifi technologies and most recently the development of 11ax Access Point and Client products. In previous roles, Chak was responsible for several highly successful 11ac MU-MIMO products which have been widely deployed and have been some of the highest revenue grossers for Qualcomm’s Wifi division. He was also Director of Engineering at Juniper responsible for several generations of queueing ASICs used in the MX & PTX series routers. He started his career at Intel and worked for over 10years on several x86 CPUs in various engineering and management roles. Chak earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, India, and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He also holds 10 patents.

Felix is one of the founders of Fungible and is responsible for the comprehensive software running on Fungible’s highly programmable hardware as well as the overall software architecture and execution. Felix most recently served as VP of Software and Firmware Engineering at Chelsio Communications where he advanced through a series of technical and leadership roles. His responsibilities included the architecture and design of software, firmware and hardware interfaces to optimize overall performance and the delivery of enterprise-grade software and firmware. Felix earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Microengineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL) and a Masters of Science degree in Communications Systems from EURECOM/EPFL. He completed Stanford’s intensive flagship Executive Program (SEP) at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Felix holds multiple patents in networking and host interface architecture and is a co-author of an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard.

Jai joined Fungible after serving as CTO for multi-billion dollar Systems businesses (Servers, Storage, Networking) at both IBM and Dell. He was an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor, and one of the early pioneers who helped create the RAID technology. He also led the team that created the industry’s first, and still the most successful, storage virtualization product and his team at IBM also built one of the fastest and earliest parallel file systems in the world. When he left IBM, Jai was CTO for the $20B IBM Systems Group, responsible for guiding 15,000 developers. In 2012, he joined Dell as VP and CTO for Dell Enterprise Solutions Group. In 2013, he became Head of Research and Chief Research Officer for Dell. Jai earned a Doctorate from Ohio State University, holds 53 patents and has published 82 papers and is a recipient of the IEEE Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Systems Award.

Jaspal leads the architecture and development of storage software. Jaspal joined Fungible with more than 30 years of experience in storage including system software development and architecture.  Most recently, he was a Principal Engineer in Amazon working on EC2 Storage and Platforms. Prior to that, Jaspal co-founded Ankeena Networks where he was the Chief Architect for developing a high performance Caching Proxy with hierarchical storage. After Juniper acquired Ankeena, Jaspal worked in its CTO office. Jaspal was a founding member of the engineering team at Mirapoint where he developed an Email Storage and Security Appliance with a journaling Filesystem and integrated RAID platform. Jaspal has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. He holds over 20 patents in various areas of systems software and architecture.

As CTO of Fungible, Rajan is responsible for the overall strategy and execution of hardware acceleration technologies integrated into Fungible’s portfolio of products. Rajan brings a wealth of experience in silicon, systems, software and applications. Prior to Fungible, he led the architecture team in Cavium’s CTO department. In that role, he helped define next-generation accelerators for Cavium’s flagship products for data centers. Rajan’s past experience also includes technical lead and management positions at Cisco Systems, where he worked on L4 to L7 systems. He is a proven technical leader and has over 100 patents issued or pending. Rajan received a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India and a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Wael Noureddine is one of the founders at Fungible and serves as chief architect responsible for the overall architecture of the Fungible DPU – encompassing silicon and software. Wael has nearly two decades of experience in the design and implementation of high performance protocols and data processors, with emphasis on hardware/ software co-design and application level quality of service. Wael specializes in data center networking, data security, computer architecture and high speed protocol processing. Before Fungible, Wael was Chief Architect and VP of Technology at Chelsio Inc., where he led the architecture and implementation of advanced protocol processing engines, and drove the development of the world’s fastest TCP/IP stack. Wael received a Doctorate and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Computer and Communications Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. He holds more than 40 patents and patent applications.

Pardha is responsible for designing and developing Fungible’s cloud orchestration platform. Pardha is an award-winning designer and product strategist with deep expertise in envisioning and delivering industry-leading products and platforms. He is the founding member of multiple thriving product and design (UX) practices that were responsible for producing successful enterprise software solutions in use across many industries. He is the co-author of the award-winning and comprehensive product design textbook—The UX Book 2: Agile UX Design for a Quality User Experience—adopted by many top universities and industry practitioners around the world. Pardha holds two Masters degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science and a Doctorate in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Srinidhi joined Fungible with more than two decades of experience architecting and building virtualization platforms, advanced networks, high-performance computing environments, scalable file systems and storage subsystems. His illustrious career includes being founder and CTO of Cloudistics, founder and CTO of AppAssure (acquired by Dell), founder and CTO of Librato (acquired by Solarwinds), and founder and architect of SilverDraft Supercomputing. He also served as the VP and General Manager of the Data Protection business at Dell after the acquisition of AppAssure. Srinidhi is the architect of the System X supercomputer at Virginia Tech (built in collaboration with Apple) – ranked #3 in the world in 2003. He received the NSF Career Award for Internet scale network modeling and was honored by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 100 (TR100) young innovators transforming technology. He was also named by HPCWire as one of the top researchers in the field of supercomputing. Srinidhi received his Doctorate in Computer Science from Stony Brook, specializing in computer networks.