Over 20 years in networking & communications, Saurav has worked on systems as diverse as network virtualization at Big Switch Networks, datacenter switches at Arista, and WDM optics at Enablence. He currently serves as Sr. Director of Engineering at Intel Network & Edge Group (NEX), which acquired Ananki, a startup he co-founded to provide private-5G solutions based on Aether for smart enterprises. Previously, as VP of Engineering at the Open Networking Foundation, he led the development and production-deployment of solutions like Trellis,  SD-RAN, and  VOLTHA  in collaboration with network operators like Deutsche Telekom, Comcast, AT&T and other partners.

He was also part of the original team at Stanford that made SDN popular. His pioneering research on SDN in WANs proposed, demonstrated and analyzed a converged IP/MPLS/Optical WAN architecturally based on SDN and OpenFlow. He holds PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.