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. 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 Hawaii, and a PhD (1982) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University where he studied under Bob Sproull. Work Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC for 11 years. 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. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware 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' 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 entry on the Juniper Networks Website Interview with Pradeep Sindhu 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