Pradeep Sindhu

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 CEO until 1996.

Pradeep Sindhu
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

Biography

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

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]