Sandeep Rangarajan

Long-time Silicon Valley technologist turned recent entrepreneur.

Grew up in India as a kid, with my father in the Armed Forces, we moved around a lot and grew up adjusting to new environments easily. Always led a very desciplined lifestyle growing up.

Did undergraduate work in Computer Science at Ohio State, with an emphasis in computer security and networking, graduated with honors. Pursued graduate work in business administration at Santa Clara University.

Work Experience:

Cisco: Software Engineer on the next-gen modular IOS/ENA platform. Got interested in routing & switching architecture, built out our engineering/PoC lab from scratch with carrier-grade IP infrastructure, CDNs, and Load-balanced clusters. Joined the network architecture team for Cisco focused on ICG's tier-1 network.

Alteon (acq. Nortel): Solutions Specialist/Architect on security solutions. Worked with small to large enterprises across western US as product and technology expert on CDNs, Data Center L4-7 Switching, Network Security.

Neoteris (acq. Juniper): Built and ran the SE team on the West and then transitioned into Product Management building and delivering client access technologies for Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks). Managed a global development team of engineers and architects, drove requirements, evangelization, and delivery of next-generation unified client architecture for all application security and acceleration technologies at Juniper. Built and launched several new products from ground-up and leading them to multi-million dollar contracts. Maintain strong customer and partner focus in everything I do. Manage a large rolodex of customer and partner contacts across SE Asia and NA in service providers and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Worked in big and small companies. Love the energy of a startup. Enjoy wearing multiple hats. Thrive in high-powered product and sales roles. Whether I'm managing a software dev team in a large technology company, or working with a virtual team within a small startup, I run my project with the same fast-paced nature that has made Silicon Valley what it is today. Work hard, play hard is someting I fully subscribe to.

Active in the Silicon Valley venture circle. Advisor to VCs and PEs looking to invest in new technologies in mobile infrastructure and cloud. I'm now working on technologies in mobile security and virtualization technologies. Solid foundat