Santa Clara, California, United States
Nexthop AI is an infrastructure startup building the most efficient Al infrastructure for the world's largest cloud operators. We are a cohesive team of seasoned industry experts, who through our collaborative product design as well as system and network engineering capabilities is leading the charge on disruptive technical innovations for AI and Cloud networking. Previously, I was the COO at Arista, where I led the team from the very early days, through an IPO and to building a $100B+ market leader. There, I was responsible for the product roadmap, hardware design, supply chain, global sales, customer engineering and support. As an engineering leader in my early days, I led high-speed switch development at Cisco Systems. I am an inventor of numerous patents and pioneered the leaf-spine architecture, which is foundational to modern data centers.
I am the Founder & CEO at Nexthop AI. We have a great team that's building customized networking products for the world's largest Hyperscalers.
Responsible for Product Roadmap, Hardware Design, Manufacturing & Supply Chain, Sales and Support for all customers globally. Deeply involved in driving our strategy, M&A and growth in Cloud and Enterprise.
Responsible for product roadmap, sales & support globally with direct involvement with all large customers.
Responsible for product definition & priorities, Systems Engineering and Services at Arista.
Responsible for software development and cross-functional execution for the Cat4K switching platform, driving annual product sales to over $1B.