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.
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.
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 subsequently influenced the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included systems such as the SS1000 and SC2000.[4]
Sindhu is the founder and CEO of data center technology company Fungible.[5]