SANTA CLARA, November 25, 2019 – IP Infusion, a leading provider of intelligent network software for telecom and data communications services, today announced that Rakesh Dubey, former Juniper Senior Vice President of Engineering, has joined the company as Vice President, Engineering and will lead all IP Infusion engineering organizations and product development.
An industry veteran, Rakesh led Juniper’s data center and campus switching, branch routing and security products teams and was responsible for all development related to the EX, QFX, NFX and SRX platforms during his 11-year tenure at Juniper.
Rakesh was also responsible for Juniper’s Cloud Platform and products for Network Management, SD-WAN and SD-Branch. He joined Juniper in 2008 as Senior Director for data center products.
“Rakesh brings his extensive engineering management experience at the industry’s top networking companies to our growing network operating system product line, especially for DANOS-Vyatta edition, the recently announced addition from AT&T,” said Atsushi Ogata, CEO, IP Infusion. “His wealth of expertise and leadership experience will be a valuable asset as we continue to accelerate our company growth, develop our product line and broaden our customer base.”
Prior to his work at Juniper, Rakesh spent 12 years at Cisco Systems, holding several engineering roles in the Catalyst 4000, Cisco Gigabit Switch Router and CRS-1 teams. He started his career as a Software Engineer at NeXT Computer and worked on their operating systems team.
Rakesh holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Washington State University in Pullman. He completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.