Gaurav Thareja

About Gaurav Thareja

Senior leader with twenty years of experience in designing and developing Web scale global multi-Terabits backbone networks, Data Center network engineering, AI network fabrics, SDN based Edge/Interconnect services and Tier 1 Internet service providers globally. Some of the key leadership profiles handled included leading network engineering, designing, architecture and Service designing for cloud network infrastructure including Data Centers networks, backbone, load balancing, IP/MPLS, Segment routing, SDN, IP Multicast, L2/L3 VPNs, Traffic Engineering, and Internet engineering.In the present role at Microsoft, leading the SDN program management function for Internet and backbone services with focus on reliability, scale, growth and reachability charter to deliver 5 9’s reliability and low latency for cloud services.

Experience

1. Principal Director - Azure Networking

   Microsoft

   Mar 2020 — Present

   Developing software-defined networking (SDN) technologies to infer traffic, control routing, centralize control to meet network-wide goals from the Internet, to the global Network (WAN) down to the Network Interface in the data center.

Education

• Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

  Executive MBA, International Business

  2009 — 2010

• YMCAIE

  B.Tech, Electronics

  1996 — 2000