Pradeep Sindhu

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name = Pradeep Sindhu


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birth_name = Mumbai, India
birth_date = 1953
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known_for = Co-founder, Juniper Networks
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employer = Juniper Networks
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title = CTO , Juniper Networks
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Pradeep Sindhu (1953, Mumbai, India) is the serving Chief Technical Officer of Juniper Networks Inc. [cite web |url=http://www.juniper.net/company/profile/leadership/#ps |title=Juniper Networks provides information on Juniper Networks Leadership /Pradeep Sindhu |accessdate=2008-06-11 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher= ]

Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson (founder of Juniper networks), and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in Californiacite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/14/BUGLV5J9OR1.DTL |title=On the record: Scott Kriens and Pradeep Sindhu |accessdate=2008-06-11 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=] . The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware on March 1998 in and went public on the 25th of June, 1999.

Sindhu was instrumental in the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 while running the company.

Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC for 11 years cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/14/BUGLV5J9OR1.DTL |title=On the record: Scott Kriens and Pradeep Sindhu |accessdate=2008-06-11 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=] . Sindhu worked on design tools for VLSI and high-speed interconnects for shared-memory multiprocessors.

Sindhu's earlier work was to subsequently influence the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which includes systems such as the SS1000 and SS2000.

Sindhu is considered a technical visionary in the field of high performance and networked computing.

Education

Sindhu is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He came to United States to study electrical engineering and computer science. He has a masters degree in electrical engineering from University of Hawaii. Later he obtained a masters degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon Universitycite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/14/BUGLV5J9OR1.DTL |title=On the record: Scott Kriens and Pradeep Sindhu |accessdate=2008-06-11 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=] .

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External links

* [http://www.juniper.net/company/profile/leadership.html#ps Pradeep Sindhu's entry on the Juniper Networks Website]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/14/BUGLV5J9OR1.DTL Interview with Pradeep Sindhu]