Leadership

Shyamal Kumar is a software product leader, and has led several platforms spanning data centre, enterprise, and service provider networks. He is passionate about embracing SDN and cloud technologies to bring simplicity and performance to data networks. Having started his career with the venerable FreeBSD TCP/IP stack, to the current SDN/NFV platforms, he has been instrumental in breakthrough product lines like the Juniper MX.

As our CEO, in his current endeavour, he has led our team to bring to market SD-WAN products. Shyamal and his team believe that today's cloud first, digital driven – enterprises can take their business anywhere, as long as the network is available.

Shyamal is a graduate of BITS, Pilani, India and has been in the data networking space for the last 18 years leading products at Tata Elxsi, Juniper Networks, Inkra Networks, Telsima Communications, Riverstone Networks, NetContinuum and Versa Networks among other companies.

Drritiman Boraah has experienced telecom and data networking technology for the last two decades in multiple product engineering roles, and has led teams in Lucent, Motorola, Juniper Networks, and has travelled the world to understand customer needs.

At Lavelle Networks, he has been instrumental since our founding days, to ensure customer success. He has built a team of fiercely passionate engineers who use technology, tools, knowledge and of course the sheer will of the human spirit, to focus on every reported customer network issue – big or small.

Driving deep customer insights into the rest of our company – Drritiman has paved the way for us to put the people who matter most to us first – OUR CUSTOMERS.

With over 20 years of experience in the networking industry, Renzil Dsouza leads the presales India team at Lavelle Networks, a cloud-based SD-WAN solution provider. He brings deep expertise in routers, switches, security, wireless, and NMS, backed by multiple industry certifications, to deliver innovative and scalable solutions for customers and partners.

At Lavelle Networks, Renzil has been instrumental in building a passionate engineering team focused on resolving every customer network issue – big or small – and driving customer insights back into the company to reinforce its core belief: putting customers first.

Previously, Renzil held leadership roles at Huawei Telecommunications as General Manager and Product Manager, where he contributed to key projects such as securing a major ISP contract, deploying a smart city network, and launching a new switching product line. He remains passionate about learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with his team and peers.

Netaji Patil understands wide area networks like no one else, having spent his time in global and national telecom providers, and is a name to be reckoned with in the telecom network and bandwidth markets. He is based in Mumbai, and has worked at every major telecom company – Tata Communications, Reliance Communications, Tulip Telecom and Global Internet Aggregators.

At Lavelle Networks, Netaji heads our sales and business development across multiple markets – large, medium or small enterprises.

A passionate speaker, and advocate for customer success, he relentlessly pushes the multiple teams at our company, to work together towards the goal of winning, retaining and growing our customers.

If there is one individual at Lavelle Networks who is continually exploring newer technology advancement and designing its adoption in existing products, then that's - Harish Kumtakar.

He has in-depth knowledge in network architecture like SDN, NFV, and VNF. Highly execution oriented, he is always looking for new ways of developing scalable and high performing products.

Harish is leading the product engineering function building world-class networking products and passionate teams.

Samuel Natarajan is a seasoned engineering leader passionate about building world-class products and mentoring high-performing teams. With hands-on experience across research, architecture, coding, deployment, and support, he has consistently delivered acclaimed solutions across diverse sectors.

At Lavelle Networks, Samuel is driving efforts to harness the power of cloud, networks, edge, data, analytics, and security to create cutting-edge solutions. His expertise spans Cloud, SDN, SD-WAN, NFV, Distributed Systems, Security, Analytics, Machine Learning, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT, Virtualization, Real-Time Systems, and WAN Optimization.

Randhir Bhattacharya is an experienced software architect who has worked across platforms in Microsoft, Hughes, Starent, Juniper Networks, Versa Networks and always played the role of that key technology architect who creates the blue print of successful product execution.

Building software across multiple engineering teams is a hard role, and he has played that role for us since the inception of our company. Whether it was the first line of code he committed into GIT, back when we started, or the last line of code he recently committed in this year's GA release, his stamp of passionate technology expertise is all over our software products.

A perfectionist at heart, on technology architectural choices, when we hear him say "I am principally against…", we all buckle down to hear another sermon of how to actually build great software.

Hariharan NRS is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry. As the Vice President of Products & Solutions at Lavelle Networks, he possesses a diverse skill set that includes quality assurance, system integration, technical management, release management, and network technologies.

Hariharan excels at overcoming operational challenges to deliver high-quality software products on time. He has successfully led projects concurrently in the areas of Cloud, Wireless, and Wired Networking, fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams.

With his extensive industry knowledge and leadership capabilities, Hariharan NRS is a valuable asset to Lavelle Networks, ensuring efficient resource allocation and promoting continuous learning across teams.