Pradeep Sindhu
Pradeep Sindhu | |
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| Born | 4 September 1953 Varanasi, India |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | IIT Kanpur University of Hawaiʻi Carnegie Mellon University |
| Employer(s) | Juniper Networks, Fungible Inc. |
| Known for | Co-founder, Juniper Networks |
| Title | Chief Scientist, Juniper Networks, CEO & Founder, Fungible |
Pradeep Sindhu is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman, chief development officer (CDO) and co-founder of data center technology company Fungible. Previously, he co-founded Juniper Networks, where he was the chief scientist and served as CEO until 1996.
Biography
[edit]Sindhu holds a B.Tech. in electrical engineering (1974) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. in electrical engineering (1976) from the University of Hawaiʻi, and a PhD (1982) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University[1] where he studied under Bob Sproull.
Work
[edit]Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC for 11 years.[1] Sindhu worked on design tools for very-large-scale integration (VLSI) of integrated circuits and high-speed interconnects for shared memory architecture multiprocessors.
Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California.[1] The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware in March 1998 and went public on 25 June 1999.[2]
Sindhu worked on the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 data router.[3]
Sindhu's earlier work at Xerox PARC influenced the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included systems such as the SPARCcenter 2000 and SPARCserver 1000.[4]
Sindhu is the founder and CEO of data center technology company Fungible.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "On the record: Scott Kriens and Pradeep Sindhu". The San Francisco Chronicle. 14 March 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
- ^ "Juniper Networks Shares Soar on First Trading Day". wsj.com. 28 June 1999. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Juniper Co-Founder Sindhu Steps Back". lightreading.com. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Juniper founder, CTO Sindhu cuts role to focus on startup". networkworld.com. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Juniper Networks co-founder steps aside to lead cloud startup". www.bizjournals.com. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
External links
[edit]- Pradeep Sindhu's entry on the Juniper Networks Website
- Interview with Pradeep Sindhu
- 1953 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- American technology chief executives
- American manufacturing businesspeople
- Carnegie Mellon University alumni
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- IIT Kanpur alumni
- Juniper Networks
- Computer networking people
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
- American chief technology officers
- Indian technology chief executives
- American people of Indian descent
- American computer businesspeople
- American chief executives
- American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies