Ashish Ranjan is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 11+ years building high-scale networking and cloud-native platforms from the data plane to developer-facing automation. He co-founded and led product and architecture at Maira, a no-code Python-DSL workflow platform that blends imperative code with low-code UX for ops automation, and previously helped define edge and multi-cloud networking at Volterra and Contrail (now Tungsten Fabric). Comfortable as a "chief everything officer," he combines hands-on systems engineering—kernel, routing, and distributed services—with GTM and MVP execution across multiple startups. His background spans deep technical roots (IIT Bombay) and early ASIC/EDA work at Qualcomm and Delsoft, which informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and operational tooling. Notably, his projects emphasize verifiable automation—backup and test philosophies appear even in his GitHub tagline—reflecting a bias toward resilient, testable infrastructure. Based in the SF Bay Area, he invests in and mentors startups, bridging product vision with rigorous engineering delivery.
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