Co-founded and led as CEO, a San Francisco-based company
called
FastForward Networks that developed products to enable the large
scale distribution of broadcast video on the internet. The company was
sold to Inktomi for $1.3B in 2000, and its technology and products formed the
basis of Inktomi's content networking offerings. Corporate investors
in Fastforward
included America Online, Enron, Inktomi, RealNetworks and Sun
Microsystems. The main venture investor was Accel Partners.
After the merger, I stayed for a short while as General
Manager of the Media Products Division of Inktomi.
Worked on various research problems, mostly in the field of computer
networking, at AT&T Bell Labs, IBM
Research and Sun Microsystems. My
papers on
Generalized Processor sharing, a way of achieving quality of service
in data networks are among the
highest cited in the networking literature and have won
international awards. The IEEE Society of Communications selected one of
them to be on a
list
of the 16 most influential networking papers to appear in the last 50
years.
Spent vast quantities of time playing squash until I injured myself
in too many different places. I never got that good (A/B player in the
Boston area), but I enjoyed the game thoroughly.
Suffered through an undergraduate experience of getting used to the
US, hightailing it from a premed program at
Johns Hopkins University and learning how not to take life so
seriously (B.E.S. in the Mathematical Sciences with the highest honors).
Had a wonderful time growing up in
Bombay (now Mumbai) India.
