Sunay Tripathi is a seasoned engineering and product executive who has repeatedly shaped networking, virtualization, and edge-cloud platforms across startups and hyperscalers. He pioneered kernel and network virtualization at Sun (Project Crossbow), founded and scaled Pluribus Networks (acquired by Arista), and led MobiledgeX as CTO before its acquisition by Google, ultimately helping define Google Distributed Cloud-Edge. At Roblox he now leads compute across core, edge and cloud to connect a billion users, while his recent work focuses on multi-cloud distributed platforms, orchestration and AI/ML abstraction layers. An inventor with 200+ patents and publications in ACM/USENIX, he combines deep systems craftsmanship with product strategy and go-to-market experience that generated over $100M in revenue. Not obvious from titles alone: he repeatedly bridges low-level kernel engineering to commercial cloud products, turning research-grade innovations into scalable, production networks.
8 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Computer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
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