Pluribus Networks CEO and leadership

25 years of diverse leadership and operational experience in the hightech industry spanning development, marketing and general management operating roles across computing, silicon and communications industries - including parallel architectures, high performance computing, routing and Ethernet Switching systems and networking ASICS.

Experienced in multiple high-end server and networking systems (HW and SW) life cycle management, product planning and introductions, major technology transitions, technology evaluation, strategic alliances, contract negotiations, revenue management, field and channels training, P&R relations.

14 years in Cisco System in a variety of sr. marketing, engineering and general management roles spanning SP carrier routing, Enterprise LAN Switching, L4-7 Services and ASICS. Most recently ran HW Engineering for the Enterprise Networking Business at Cisco that spans the Catalyst 2K-6K LAN Switching, the ISR Branch Routering, the ASR1000 Enterprise Aggregation, Enterprise Wireless AP and Controller product-lines as well as Cisco’s Enterprise ASIC portfolio. The breadth of products represent greater than $16B of Cisco’s Enterprise Networking products - nearly one-third of Cisco’s overall business in FY2013. Previously held VP/GM position for the $2B+ Enterprise Backbone Switching BU as well as VP of Marketing responsibilities for Cisco’s most successful LAN switching platform portfolio centered around the multi-billion dollar Catalyst 6500 and the 4500 family of switches. 10+ years in StratumOne Communications, SGI and Sun Microsystems in senior marketing and development positions.

Proven recruiting, team building and organizational skills

Demonstrated ability to manage in severely resource constrained environments.

Decisive and pragmatic management style

Sunay is the CTO/EVP Engineering & Product at MobiledgeX leading the development of Telecom Edge Cloud to support XR, AI and ML applications over Distributed infrastructure. Before that, he was the Founder/CTO of Pluribus Networks and was the Chief Architect for Kernel/Network Virtualization at Sun Microsystems where he led the development of Container Networking and Virtual Switching that became the mainstay of todays Micro Services and Cloud. He has an extensive 25+ years of software leadership, development and delivery background and products created by him are currently used in mission critical environments like banks, telecom networks and data centers worldwide. He holds over 100+ patents in areas of Containers, Virtual Switching and Software Defined Networking and specializes is getting new initiatives off the ground and building highly innovative teams and products from scratch.

Sunay Co-Founded Pluribus to create Netvisor, a Distributed Network Operating System in 2010. He implemented the first phase of Netvisor and its key features like the Cloud Fabric that were necessary to raise Series A and went on to bring together and run a very talented team of engineers to get the software to production and deployment. In the process, he raised $120M in total from Tier A investors and grew the company to 150 employees in Palo Alto and Bangalore.

Previously at Sun Microsystem Inc., Sunay was a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, where he architected and delivered the Solaris 10 high performance TCP/IP framework and virtualized the kernel to create Container networking, virtual switching and VNICs. The project was the corner stone of Open Solaris and the commercial derivative Solaris 11.

Specialties: A proficient kernel/network/cloud leader and an avid researcher/coder.

Results driven professional with 20+ years of experience building and leading B2B marketing and product management teams in the areas of networking, data center and cloud.

Sunay is the CTO/EVP Engineering & Product at MobiledgeX leading the development of Telecom Edge Cloud to support XR, AI and ML applications over Distributed infrastructure. Before that, he was the Founder/CTO of Pluribus Networks and was the Chief Architect for Kernel/Network Virtualization at Sun Microsystems where he led the development of Container Networking and Virtual Switching that became the mainstay of todays Micro Services and Cloud. He has an extensive 25+ years of software leadership, development and delivery background and products created by him are currently used in mission critical environments like banks, telecom networks and data centers worldwide. He holds over 100+ patents in areas of Containers, Virtual Switching and Software Defined Networking and specializes is getting new initiatives off the ground and building highly innovative teams and products from scratch.

Sunay Co-Founded Pluribus to create Netvisor, a Distributed Network Operating System in 2010. He implemented the first phase of Netvisor and its key features like the Cloud Fabric that were necessary to raise Series A and went on to bring together and run a very talented team of engineers to get the software to production and deployment. In the process, he raised $120M in total from Tier A investors and grew the company to 150 employees in Palo Alto and Bangalore.

Previously at Sun Microsystem Inc., Sunay was a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, where he architected and delivered the Solaris 10 high performance TCP/IP framework and virtualized the kernel to create Container networking, virtual switching and VNICs. The project was the corner stone of Open Solaris and the commercial derivative Solaris 11.

Specialties: A proficient kernel/network/cloud leader and an avid researcher/coder.

25 years of diverse leadership and operational experience in the hightech industry spanning development, marketing and general management operating roles across computing, silicon and communications industries - including parallel architectures, high performance computing, routing and Ethernet Switching systems and networking ASICS.

Experienced in multiple high-end server and networking systems (HW and SW) life cycle management, product planning and introductions, major technology transitions, technology evaluation, strategic alliances, contract negotiations, revenue management, field and channels training, P&R relations.

14 years in Cisco System in a variety of sr. marketing, engineering and general management roles spanning SP carrier routing, Enterprise LAN Switching, L4-7 Services and ASICS. Most recently ran HW Engineering for the Enterprise Networking Business at Cisco that spans the Catalyst 2K-6K LAN Switching, the ISR Branch Routering, the ASR1000 Enterprise Aggregation, Enterprise Wireless AP and Controller product-lines as well as Cisco’s Enterprise ASIC portfolio. The breadth of products represent greater than $16B of Cisco’s Enterprise Networking products - nearly one-third of Cisco’s overall business in FY2013. Previously held VP/GM position for the $2B+ Enterprise Backbone Switching BU as well as VP of Marketing responsibilities for Cisco’s most successful LAN switching platform portfolio centered around the multi-billion dollar Catalyst 6500 and the 4500 family of switches. 10+ years in StratumOne Communications, SGI and Sun Microsystems in senior marketing and development positions.

Proven recruiting, team building and organizational skills

Demonstrated ability to manage in severely resource constrained environments.

Decisive and pragmatic management style

Sunay is the CTO/EVP Engineering & Product at MobiledgeX leading the development of Telecom Edge Cloud to support XR, AI and ML applications over Distributed infrastructure. Before that, he was the Founder/CTO of Pluribus Networks and was the Chief Architect for Kernel/Network Virtualization at Sun Microsystems where he led the development of Container Networking and Virtual Switching that became the mainstay of todays Micro Services and Cloud. He has an extensive 25+ years of software leadership, development and delivery background and products created by him are currently used in mission critical environments like banks, telecom networks and data centers worldwide. He holds over 100+ patents in areas of Containers, Virtual Switching and Software Defined Networking and specializes is getting new initiatives off the ground and building highly innovative teams and products from scratch.

Sunay Co-Founded Pluribus to create Netvisor, a Distributed Network Operating System in 2010. He implemented the first phase of Netvisor and its key features like the Cloud Fabric that were necessary to raise Series A and went on to bring together and run a very talented team of engineers to get the software to production and deployment. In the process, he raised $120M in total from Tier A investors and grew the company to 150 employees in Palo Alto and Bangalore.

Previously at Sun Microsystem Inc., Sunay was a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, where he architected and delivered the Solaris 10 high performance TCP/IP framework and virtualized the kernel to create Container networking, virtual switching and VNICs. The project was the corner stone of Open Solaris and the commercial derivative Solaris 11.

Specialties: A proficient kernel/network/cloud leader and an avid researcher/coder.