Since the company's foundation, Starent Networks has maintained a significant presence in India. This presence was required as we sought global expertise for building our world-class solutions.
We're strong proponents of hiring highly qualified individuals regardless of geographic location.
Now, Starent Networks has emerged as a global leader in multimedia core infrastructure for mobile operators, and critical to this success is the India team.
The India offices are located in Pune, a major industrial, technology, and higher educational center; and Bangalore, often referred to as the Silicon Valley of India. These offices play a key role in product development with a focus on software development, quality assurance, and systems engineering.
Leadership
Vijay Kathuria
Vice President and General Manager
Vijay Kathuria has served as our Vice President and General Manager, India since February 2004. From June 1991 to January 2004, Mr. Kathuria served as Vice President and General Manager of NuLink, Incorporated, an engineering services provider that he co-founded and which we acquired in February 2004.
Sandeep Bhambani
Director of Engineering, Pune Development Center
Sandeep draws upon more than 16 years of wide and varied experience in the field of software development and management. Sandeep is responsible for leading all engineering and development activities at Starent Networks' Pune Development Center. Prior to Starent, Sandeep worked with several large Indian information technology services companies, including Wipro, PCS, and Geometric. He has also been responsible for establishing and leading teams for overseas clients like Unigraphics, SDRC, NEC, ConnectSoft, and GE Fanuc. His experience spans various technology areas, such as web applications, networking, and CAD applications. Sandeep has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and earned a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Systems & Finance from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Sundar Ramaswamy
Director of Engineering, Bangalore Development Center
Sundar is responsible for leading all engineering and development activities at Starent Networks' Bangalore Development Center. Prior to joining Starent, Sundar served as Director of Engineering at iSoftel Limited where he was responsible for the development of prepaid/postpaid servers, VoIP call route management software, and session border controller. He was also involved in base station software development for TDM and UMTS products at Lucent Technologies. Sundar completed his Masters in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and had been working in the software industry for more than 15 years.
Anil R. Shalu
Architect and Chief Software Officer
Anil brings more than 20 years of hardware and software development experience to Starent Networks. Anil is closely involved in architecting Starent's Element Management System. Prior to joining Starent, Anil was Architect and Chief Software Officer of Nu-Link (India) Pvt. Ltd., a company providing engineering services to many major technology companies, such as Tellabs, NetCore Systems, Sigma Network Systems, and others. Anil also held hardware and software design and development roles with Computer Kontor Comm. and Telco (Tata Motors). Anil holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the College of Engineering Pune and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Locations
Pune
P-17, Phase I, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park
Hinjewadi
Pune 411057
India
T: +91 20-22930100
F: +91 20-22934723
Bangalore
5th Floor, Surya Chambers
124, Airport Road, Murugeshpalya
Bangalore-560 017
India
T: +91 080-40109400
F: +91 080-41256200
F: +91 080-41256200 |
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