Pradeep Sindhu is an
Indian-American
Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred t ...
business executive. He is the
chairman
The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the group ...
,
chief development officer (CDO) and co-founder of data center technology company
Fungible. Previously, he co-founded
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and markets networking products, including routers, switches, network management software, network security product ...
, where he was the chief scientist and served as CEO until 1996.
Biography
Sindhu holds a B.Tech. in
electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
(1974) from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. in electrical engineering (1976) from the
University of Hawaii
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, and a
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
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(1982) in
computer science
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from
Carnegie Mellon University
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where he studied under
Bob Sproull.
Work
Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of
Xerox PARC
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, the company was originally a division of Xero ...
for 11 years.
Sindhu worked on design tools for
very-large-scale integration
Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) ...
(VLSI) of
integrated circuits
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and
high-speed interconnects for
shared memory architecture multiprocessor
Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There ar ...
s.
Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in
California
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.
The company was subsequently reincorporated in
Delaware
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in March 1998 and went public on 25 June 1999.
Sindhu worked on the architecture, design, and development of the
Juniper M40 data
router.
Sindhu's earlier work subsequently influenced the architecture, design, and development of
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, t ...
' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included systems such as the SS1000 and SC2000.
Sindhu is the founder and CEO of data center technology company Fungible.
References
External links
Pradeep Sindhu's entryon the Juniper Networks Website
Interview with Pradeep Sindhu
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1953 births
Living people
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 alumni
American chief technology officers
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
American people of Indian descent
American computer businesspeople
American chief executives
American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies
Chief executives in the technology industry