Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
Follow Kumar on LinkedInKumar brings a proven track record of leading mega-projects at startups as well as publicly traded companies. His vision, work ethic, and leadership as VP of Engineering at Juniper Networks resulted in multiple blockbuster product deliveries, including the market-leading Metro and Carrier Ethernet solution, the MX series.
His leadership in design, development, and delivery of differentiated solutions resulted in huge and continuing revenue streams for the company and brought Kumar the prestigious CEO Excellence Award. Prior to Juniper, Kumar held engineering management positions at Riverstone Networks and Yago Systems.
Kumar is a graduate of the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has a Master’s degree in Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
19 Patents, Most recent include:
- 9,762,494 Flow distribution table for packet flow load balancing
- 9,736,036 Variable-based forwarding path construction for packet processing within a network device
- 9,231,871 Flow distribution table for packet flow load balancing
- 8,948,174 Variable-based forwarding path construction for packet processing within a network device
- 8,806,043 Server selection during retransmit of a request
- 8,693,398 High-availability mobile gateways having interchassis non-uniform service unit redundancy
- 8,520,680 Address learning in a layer two bridging network
- 8,520,615 Breakout gateway for mobile data traffic
- 8,509,248 Routing frames in a computer network using bridge identifiers
- 8,199,753 Forwarding frames in a computer network using shortest path bridging
Credentials
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford Executive Program
Virginia Tech
Master of Science (MS) Engineering
IIT Kharagpur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Engineering
Publications
eBook By Kumar Mehta & Apurva Mehta
SASE For Dummies
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